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London County Council 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table 34 Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils since 1950

BoroughNo. of houses in boroughPublic Health ActHousing Acts, 1936
No. of houses inspected on account of complaints or illn.'ssNo. of statutory notices servedNo. of houses repairedNo. of houses inspectedSection 25Section 9 and 10Number of houses demolishedClosing OrdersOvercrowdingNo. of dwellings for working classes erected during the yearUnderground roomsHouses let in lodgings
No. of houses representedNo. of houses demolishedNo. of houses repairedNo. of families overcrowdedNo. of families alternative accom. obtainedNo. occupied but unfitNo. closed or modified occupation approvedNo. in borough.... No. of inspectionsNo. of prosecutionsNo. of complaints remedied
Section 11VoluntarilyNo. madeNo. determined
By ownersL.A.
City of London1,1001311021835197
Battersea27,5414,6442,07510,716113122689264*2****
Bermondsey15,7074,8171,4343,52187612621441266085724185485
Bethnal Green15,7634,1824,3092,8972324203279190*31845812
Camberwell41,9258,3222,4264,276919677332250215*26****
Chelsea15,4712,1234274666642361461512575*
Deptford16,1233,6449352,657_2222012558138
Finsbury9,8902,303901,11627–_651761091,200456
Fulham30,7444,7232,4934,902293121526412524255
Greenwich21,9472,4513161,7237041114813271652625
Hackney39,1548,4362,6076,2963664110214003362677
Hammersmith25,4404,1252,2322,889532215343920326*9,600
Hampstead20,0862,3364362,140451111359557512101,5731,070960
Holborn5,7425944754393114839499229428742
Islington43,51911,1327,9219,0842,671112721883712390*39*+ +16
Kensington36,3995,9551,7473,1728776798187119334451281863,910754,0263,254__
Lambeth51,43412,6432,3406,3356*173201311*9****
Lewisham61,3506,7811,2145,264613291522478277409*
Paddington22,8195,9321,1998,946151417557421315193*1905,87994218381
Poplar17,1354,2241,8183,72412395132582002161,8509141852
St. Marlebone22,5792,327268966343136791421,3001552402,447261,9327,409239
St. Pancras26,5297,3342,9575,4016626477682391,0001005,000117
Shoreditch10,9204,9944315,2743,452322638417720628214****
Southwark23,7495,3141,1292,725134531616411012****
Stepney28,1149,4581,5046,486442113515552323,880331,88779548
Stoke Newington8,5001,90816,276751463510353166610
Wandsworth94,77612,9136,4295,96791802244110281129310
Westminster, C. of22,6951.935741,121111124471412,540603,3504,16684
Woolwich38,4245,6271,86617,110834119876341*
Total795,575151,19067,001125,80210,51434610331881871941101058,9425,8644,89419,06688435,35319,1791651,479