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London County Council 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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lxxvi.
Housing of the Working Classes—Statistics.
K.— Particulars of Births and Deaths in the C ouncil's Dwellings during the Year ended 31 st March , 1914.
| Dwellings. | Borough. | Births. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occurring in the dwellings. | Occurring in institutions. | Total. | |||
| Ann-street-dwellings | Poplar | 19 | 6 | .. | 6 |
| Barnaby-buildings | Bermondsey | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Battersea-bridge-buildings | Battersea | 4 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bearcroft-buildings | Fulham | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bekesbourne-buildings | Stepney | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Borough-road-dwellings | Southwark | 10 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Boundary-street estate | Bethnal-green | 112 | 9 | 15 | 24 |
| Bourne estate | Holborn | 56 | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| Brightlingsea-buildings | Stepney | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Briscoe-buildings | Lambeth | 7 | .. | .. | .. |
| Brook-street-dwellings | Stepney | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Bruce-house | Westminster | .. | 1 | 28 | 29 |
| Cable-street-dwellings | Stepney | 22 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Caledonian estate | Islington | 23 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Carrington house | Deptford | .. | .. | 17 | 17 |
| Chadworth-buildings | Finsbury | 15 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Churchway estate | St. Pancras | 22 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Cobham-buildings | Southwark | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Cotton-street-dwellings | Poplar | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Council-buildings, Poplar | Poplar | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Cranley-buildings | Holborn | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Darcy-buildings | Hackney | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Dufferin-street-dwellings | Finsbury | .. | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Duke's-court-dwellings | Westminster | 11 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| Durham-buildings | Battersea | 6 | .. | 2 | 2 |
| East Greenwich -cottages | Greenwich | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Goldsmith's-row-cottages | Shoreditch | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Hardy-cottages | Greenwich | 7 | 2 | .. | 2 |
| Herbrand-street-dwellings | Holborn | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Holmwood-buildings | Southwark | 3 | .. | .. | |
| Hughes-fields-cottages | Greenwich | 8 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Hughes-fields-dwellings | Deptford | 15 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Idenden-cottages | Greenwich | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 |
| Mallory-buildings | Finsbury | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Millbank estate | Westminster | 45 | 15 | 21 | 36 |
| Norbury estate | Croydon | 58 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Old Oak estate | Hammersmith | 8 | • . | .. | .. |
| Parker-street house | Holborn | .. | .. | 18 | 18 |
| PrestonVroad-dwellings.. | Poplar | 28 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| Rushworth-street and Boyfield-street (late Green-street and Gun-street) dwellings | Southwark | 9 | 3 | .. | 3 |
| Shelton-street-dwellings.. | Holborn | 5 | .. | .. | .. |
| Swan-lane-dwellings | Bermondsey | 40 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| Sylva-cottages | Deptford | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Totterdown-fields estate | Wandsworth | 56 | 15 | 14 | 29 |
| Union-buildings | Holborn | 20 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| Valette-buildings | Hackney | 4 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Wandsworth-road-dwellings | Lambeth | 6 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Webber-row estate | Southwark | 16 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| Wenlake-buildings | Finsbury | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Wessex-buildings | Islington | 11 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| White Hart-lane estate | Tottenham | 122 | 14 | .. | 14 |
| York-street-dwellings | Westminster | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Totals | 861 | 166 | 202 | 368 | |
| (a) The particulars comprised in this table for estates within the County have been supplied by the Medical Officer of Health, and for estates outside the county by the registrars of the districts. | |||||