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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The following tables show the damage to dwellings in the County of London, and in the London Civil Defence Region, as from 3rd September, 1939 :—
District | No. of dwellings in August, 1939 | Totally destroyed | So seriously damaged had to be demolished | Seriously damaged ; unoccupied • | Seriously damaged ; still occupied | Minor damage | Total destroyed or damaged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) |
Paddington | 22,570 | 632 | (a) | 1,194 | 747 | 15,006 | 17,579 |
Kensington. | 40,064 | 1,030 | 865 | 1,490 | 13,652 | 17,037 | |
Hammersmith | 39,000 | 181 | 624 | 447 | 1,775 | 14,872 | 17,899 |
Fulham | 26,756 | 1,114 | (a) | 1,685 | 1,341 | 17,357 | 21,497 |
Chelsea | 14,500 | 392 | 252 | 1,345 | 1,507 | 6,358 | 9,854 |
Westminster, City of | 26,500 | 525 | 1,165 | 2,982 | 18,056 | 22,728 | |
St. Marvlebone | 20,466 | 421 | 605 | 1,033 | 524 | 12,406 | 14,989 |
Hampstead | 17,552 | 297 | 177 | 930 | 1,075 | 10,926 | 13,405 |
St. Pancras | 28,638 | 1,686 | (a) | 1,634 | 1,696 | 13,825 | 18,841 |
Islington | 45,000 | 3,097 | (a) | 1,253 | 3,224 | 33,653 | 41,227 |
Stoke Newington | 13,648 | 86 | 382 | 789 | 1,504 | 9,234 | 11,995 |
Hackney | 30,112 | 3,657 | 357 | 3,239 | 1,744 | 21,115 | 30,112 |
Holborn | 8,700 | 624 | (a) | 531 | 315 | 6,000 | 7.470 |
Finsbury | 9,899 | 983 | 23 | 585 | 233 | 7.015 | 8.839 |
City of London | 2,154 | (Classification not appropriate) | |||||
Shoreditch | 19,678 | 3,360 | 1,050 | 1,041 | _ | 14,201 | 19,652 |
Bethnal Green | 21,700 | 2,233 | (a) | 893 | 2,457 | 16,117 | 21,700 |
Stepney | 34,000 | 4,324 | 2,716 | 3,795 | 3,178 | 15,278 | 29,291 |
Poplar | 21,906 | 4,663 | 2,481 | 2,317 | 2,434 | 10,011 | 21,906 |
Southwark | 25,552 | 2,071 | 624 | 3,006 | 3,638 | 13,513 | 22.852 |
Bermondsey | 19,019 | 1,552 | 1,648 | 1,042 | 2,842 | 11,715 | 18,799 |
Lambeth | 55,000 | 4,000 | (a) | 4,000 | 5,000 | 35,000 | 48,000 |
Battersea | 28,500 | 2,266 | (a) | 1,973 | 4,747 | 19,053 | 28,039 |
Wandsworth | 79,478 | 1,484 | 1,551 | 5,614 | 9,122 | 56,964 | 74,735 |
Camberwell | 40,104 | 5,291 | (a) | 5,086 | 3,976 | 25,348 | 39,701 |
Deptford | 18,200 | 2,124 | (a) | 1,500 | 4,500 | 17,500 | 25,624 |
Greenwich | 19,370 | 2,418 | 1,312 | 375 | 15,265 | 19,370 | |
Lewisham | 48,532 | 1,261 | 2,219 | 4,018 | 5,132 | 35,850 | 48,480 |
Woolwich | 37,900 | 495 | 1,297 | 1,769 | 2,084 | 32,252 | 37,897 |
County of London | 814,498 | 52,267 | 17,171 | 55,878 | 66,660 | 517,542 | 709,518 |
• As in August. 1945. (a) .Included in column (3). (6) Included in column (7).