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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The table on p. 50 shows the houses in each borough in 1924
| Metropolitan borough. | No. of houses. | No. of houses for the working classes. | / No. of representations. | No. of closing orders. | No. of houses demolished. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In borough. | Inhabited by working classes. | Repaired by local authority. | Erected. | In course of erection. | ||||||||||
| 1924. | 1924. | 1924. | 1924. | 1924. | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-24 | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-24 | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-24 | |
| Battersea | 27,844 | 24,953 | 25 | 15 | 21 | 187 | 1 | 13 | 44 | – | 13 | 6 | – | – |
| Bermondsey | 19,187 | 18,927 | 1 | 10 | 49 flats | 68 | 13 | 3 | 111 | 46 | 1 | 67 | – | – |
| Bothnal Green | 19,465 | Almost all | – | 6 | – | 32 | 34 | 14 | 43 | 19 | 9 | 40 | 2 | 9 |
| Camberwell | 41,877 | 33,500 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 8 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 |
| Chelsea | 11,440 | 2,440 | – | – | 56 flats | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| Deptford | 18,100 | 16.290 | – | – | l | 95 | 8 | – | 95 | 7 | – | 40 | 2 | – |
| Finsbury | 11,000 | 6,500 | – | – | – | 21 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 5 | – | – | 50 |
| Fulham | 27,040 | 20,265 | – | 2 | – | 43 | 1 | 14 | 38 | 1 | 14 | 22 | – | 7 |
| Greenwich | 16,698 | Majority | – | – | 132 | 193 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 26 | – | – |
| Hackney | 34,917 | 14,166 | – | 4 | 48 maisonettes | 11 | 29 | 45 | 11 | 34 | – | 9 | – | – |
| Hammersmith | 18,563 | 12,000 | – | 82 | – | 37 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 38 | 18 | – | 25 | 5 |
| Hampstead | 12,557 | About half | – | – | – | 17 | 17 | 25 | 17 | 17 | 23 | 5 | – | 14 |
| Holborn | 3,473 | 8,571 t'n'mts | – | – | 1 bl'ckof t'n'mts | 63 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 46 | – | – |
| Islington | 43,000 | 27,000 | 3 | – | – | 50 | 10 | 3 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Kensington | 28,419 | 9,144 | – | 3 | 40 | 86 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 22 | 1 | – | – |
| Lambeth | 42,607 | 31,955 | – | 108 | 96 | 102 | 38 | 17 | 102 | – | – | 129 | – | 103 |
| Lewisham | 35,539 | Not stated | – | – | – | 25 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 3 | – |
| Paddington | Not stated | Not stated | – | – | – | 23 | 17 | 26 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Poplar | 23,248 | Almost all | – | 61 | 43 | 68 | 39 | 6 | 68 | 33 | 13 | 2 | 1 | – |
| St. Marylebone | 19,270 | 8,112 | – | 32 flats | 32 flats | 32 | 20 | – | 32 | 19 | – | 9 | 3 | 1 |
| St. Pancras | 25,216 | 16,000 | – | – | – | 109 | 53 | – | 72 | 56 | – | – | – | – |
| Shoreditch | 14,000 | 13,000 | – | – | 20 | 12 | 9 | – | 12 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
| Southwark | 20,312 | 13,958 | – | – | – | 152 | 4 | 411 | 84 | – | 64 | – | 32 | 43 |
| Stepney | 31,750 | 31,750 | – | 11 | 87 tenements | 44 | 27 | 2 | 44 | 59 | – | – | 6 | – |
| Stoke Newington | 8,599 | 3,978 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Wandsworth | 68,839 | 44,661 | – | 553 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 7 | 1 |
| Westminster (City) | 27,260 | Not stated | – | 40 | – | 21 | 7 | – | 9 | 6 | – | 25 | 39 | 4 |
| Woolwich | 27,009 | 22,768 | 1 | 175 | 104 | 97 | 40 | 34 | 42 | 32 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 5 |