Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Report of the County Medical Officer—General. 99
TABLE IV.
Number of persons in Shelters, etc., not licensed as Common Lodging Houses.
Sanitary district. | Free beds. | For labour. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Men. | Women. | Children. | Men. | |
— | 21 | — | — | |
(1) | 32 | - | - | - |
(2) | mm | 12 | - | - |
- | - | - | 97 | |
32 | 33 | - | 97 | |
There were on the same night in the Labour Homes and Homes for Women of the Church Army 146 men and 105 women, and 26 boys. |
TABLE V.
A Table summarising the information contained in the second and third paragraphs of this report, and showing the total number of persons who might be regarded as homeless on the ground of being unable to pay for a bed.
Description. | Men. | Women. | Young Persons. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Number of men who were received in a Salvation Army shelter and were sitting up | 17 | - | - | 17 |
Persons found homeless in the streets | 534 | 141 | 2 | 677 |
In licensed common lodging houses whore no charge is made | 1,013 | 27 | 17 | 1,057 |
In unlicensed houses where no charge is made | 178 | 133 | 26 | 312 |
Beds in licensed common lodging houses paid for by charitable institutions | 33 | - | - | 33 |
Persons in casual wards | 352 | 40 | 1 | 399 |
Total number of persons found homeless, or rest-ing in shelters, or occupying free beds in common lodging houses, shelters and casual wards | 2,127 | 352 | 46 | 2,525 |
* The figures in italics are the totals for the night of the 14th February, 1913. |
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