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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Housing of the Working Classes—Statistics.
F.—Number of Lettings effected, the number of Tenants who Vacated their Tenements and the number OF tenants who were transferred to other tenements in the Council's Dwellings during the Year 1913-1914.
| Dwellings. | Metropolitan Borough. | Number of tenements | Number of lettings effected. | Number of vacations, less transfers. | Number of Transfers (not included in number of lettingx or vacations) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenant's notice. | Council's notice. | Total. | Percentage. | |||||
| Ann-street-dwellings | Poplar | 135 | 56 | 49 | 4 | 53 | 39 | 2 |
| Barnaby-buildings | Bermondsey | 80 | 25 | 23 | 2 | 25 | 31 | 4 |
| Battersea-bridge-buildings | Battersea | 69 | 24 | 24 | 2 | 26 | 38 | 7 |
| Bearcroft-buildings | Fulham | 40 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 2 |
| Bekesbourne-buildings | Stepney | 75 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 1 |
| Borough-road-dwellings | Southwark | 84 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 2 |
| Boundary-street-estate | Bethnal-green | 1,044 | 251 | 208 | 42 | 250 | 24 | 69 |
| Bourne-estate | Holborn | 537 | 140 | 114 | 24 | 138 | 26 | 78 |
| Brightlingsea-buildings | Stepney | 65 | 32 | 30 | 4 | 34 | 52 | 4 |
| Briscoe-buildings | Lambeth | 113 | 48 | 49 | 1 | 50 | 44 | 3 |
| Brook-street-dwellings | Stepney | 58 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 33 | 2 |
| Cable-street-dwellings | Stepney | 180 | 35 | 35 | .. | 35 | 19 | 4 |
| Caledonian-estate | Islington | 272 | 101 | 91 | 4 | 95 | 35 | 68 |
| Chadwortk-buildings | 'Finsbury | 136 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 25 | 18 | 2 |
| Churchway estate | St. Pancras | 180 | 40 | 38 | 2 | 40 | 22 | 7 |
| Cobham-buildings | Southwark | 60 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 18 | .. |
| Cotton-street-dwellings | Poplar | 70 | 24 | 19 | 4 | 23 | 33 | 1 |
| Council-buildings, Poplar | Poplar | 50 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 46 | .. |
| Cranley-buildings | Holborn | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 42 | .. |
| Darcy-buildings | Hackney | 40 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 32 | 1 |
| DufEerin-street-dwellings | Finsbury | 56 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 4 |
| Duke's-court dwellings | Westminster | 130 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| Durham-buildings | Battersea | 108 | 26 | 30 | 4 | 34 | 31 | 1 |
| East Greenwich-cottages | Greenwich | 78 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 17 | 22 | 1 |
| Goldsmith's-row-cottages] | Shoreditch | 25 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | 12 | .. |
| Hardy-cottages | Greenwich | 51 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | .. |
| Herbrand-street-dwellings | Holborn | 160 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 |
| Holmwood-buildings | Southwark | 16 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | 19 | .. |
| Hughes-fields-cottages | Greenwich | 134 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 2 |
| Hughes-fields-dwellings | Deptford | 120 | 26 | 18 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 3 |
| Idenden-cottages | Greenwich | 50 | 5 | 5 | .. | 5 | 10 | .. |
| Mallory-buildings | Finsbury | 33 | 6 | 6 | .. | 6 | 18 | .. |
| Millbank-estate | Westminster | 895 | 164 | 163 | 3 | 166 | 19 | 48 |
| Norbury estate | Croydon | 472 | 59 | 57 | 1 | 58 | 12 | 11 |
| ♦Old Oak estate | Hammersmith | 304 | 221 | 25 | 1 | 26 | 8 | 4 |
| Preston's-road estate | Poplar | 263 | 97 | 82 | 7 | 89 | 34 | 31 |
| Rushworth-street and Boyfield-street dwellings (late Green-street and Gun-street) | Southwark | 102 | 28 | 26 | 2 | 28 | 27 | 1 |
| Shelton-street-dwellings | Holborn | 63 | 2 | 2 | .. | 2 | 3 | .. |
| Swan-lane-dwellings | Bermondsey | 255 | 109 | 80 | 11 | 91 | 36 | 4 |
| Sylva-cottages | Deptford | 24 | 7 | 7 | .. | 7 | 29 | .. |
| Totterdown-fields-estate | iWandsworth | 1,261 | 351 | 313 | 29 | 342 | 27 | 79 |
| Union-buildings | Holborn | 227 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 |
| Valette-buildings | Hackney | 80 | 11 | 11 | .. | 11 | 14 | .. |
| Wandsworth - road - dwell | Lambeth | 47 | 11 | 11 | .. | 11 | 23 | .. |
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| Webber-row-estate | Southwark | 220 | 38 | 34 | 1 | 35 | 16 | 2 |
| Wenlake-buildings | Finsbury | 86 | 15 | 15 | .. | 15 | 17 | .. |
| Wessex-buildings | Islington | 225 | 75 | 69 | 4 | 73 | 32 | 7 |
| *White-Hart-lane estate | Tottenham | 881 | 168 | 119 | 7 | 126 | 14 | 48 |
| York-street-dwellings | Westminster | 80 | 3 | 3 | .. | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Totals | 9,746 | 2,423 | 1,958 | 184 | 2,142 | 22 j | 524 | |
| *New cottages were opened at these estates during the year. | ||||||||
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