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Metropolitan borough. | No. of houses. | No. of houses for the working classes. | No. of representations. | No. of closing orders. | No. of houses demolished. |
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In borough. | Inhabited by working classes. | Repaired by local authority. | Erected. | In course of erection. |
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1925. | 1925. | 1925. | 1925. | 1925. | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-25 | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-25 | 1911-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-25 |
Battersea | 27,848 | 24,956 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 187 | 1 | 14 | 44 | — | 14 | 6 | — | 10 |
Bermondsey | 19,246 | 18,986 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 68 | 13 | 3 | 111 | 46 | 1 | 67 | — | — |
Bethnal Green | 19,397 | Almost all | — | 48 tenements | — | 32 | 34 | 15 | 43 | 19 | 10 | 40 | 2 | 4 |
Camberwell | 42,476 | 27,874 | — | — | _ | _ | __ | 8 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 3 |
Chelsea | 11,528 | 2,496 | — | 56 | — | 3 | — | 1 | — | _ | 3 | 9 | 8 | 21 |
Deptford | 18,123 | 16,310 | — | 1 | — | 95 | 8 | — | 95 | 7 | — | 40 | 2 | — |
Finsbury | 11,000 | 6,500 | — | — | — | 21 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 5 | | __ | 60 |
Fulham | 27,040 | 20,265 | — | — | 36 flats | 43 | 1 | 14 | 38 | 1 | 14 | 22 | — | 7 |
Greenwich | 16,845 | Majority | — | 147 | 125 | 193 | _ | 1 | _ | — | 3 | 26 | — | —• |
Hackney | 35,145 | 14,272 | — | 87 | 30 | 11 | 29 | 49 | 11 | 34 | — | 9 | — | — |
Hammersmith | 18,620 | 12,000 | 150 | 50 | — | 37 | 26 | 16 | 6 | 38 | 20 | — | 25 | 10 |
Hampstead | 12,557 | Not stated | — | — | — | 17 | 17 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 5 | — | 15 |
Holborn | 3,473 | 8,571 t'n'mte | — | 37 tenements | — | 63 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 46 | — | — |
Islington | 45,000 | 28,000 | — | — | 435 | 50 | 10 | 3 | 38 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
Kensington | 30,044 | 9,184 | — | 36 flats, 4 cotts. | 36 flats, 4 cotts. | 86 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 22 | 1 | — | — |
Lambeth | 42,607 | 31,955 | — | 108 | 96 | 102 | 38 | 17 | 102 | — | — | 129 | — | 103 |
Lewisham | 39,220 | Not stated | — | 457 | _ | 25 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 3 | —* |
Paddington | 17,000 | 9,100 | — | — | — | 23 | 17 | 27 | 27 | 10 | 9 | 1 | — | 1 |
Poplar | 23,248 | 23,000 | 1 | 81 | 56 | 68 | 39 | 16 | 68 | 33 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
St. Marylebone | 16,294 | 8,131 | — | 32 flats | 20 flats | 32 | 20 | — | 32 | 19 | — | 9 | 3 | 1 |
St. Pancras | 25,216 | 16,000 | — | — | — | 109 | 53 | — | 72 | 56 | — | — | — | — |
Shoreditch | 14,000 | 13,000 | — | 59 | 30 | 12 | 9 | — | 12 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 11 |
Southwark | 20,474 | 14,000 | — | 42 | — | 152 | 4 | 419 | 84 | — | 64 | — | 32 | 43 |
Stepney | 31,708 | 31,708 | 4 | — | — | 44 | 27 | 2 | 44 | 59 | — | | 6 | — |
Stoke Newington | 8,605 | 3,078 | — | — | — | — | _ | — | _ | _ | — | 1 | — | — |
Wandsworth | 67,764 | — | — | 741 | — | — | 1 | 1 | _ | _ | 3 | — | 7 | 20 |
Westminster (City) | 27,352 | 11,376 | — | — | 25 | 21 | 7 | _ | 9 | 6 | — | 25 | 39 | 4 |
Woolwich | 27,333 | 22,954 | — | 186 | 74 | 97 | 40 | 34 | 42 | 32 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 5 |