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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 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
| Borough | No. of houses in borough | Public Health Act | Housing Acts, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of houses inspected on account of complaints or illn.'ss | No. of statutory notices served | No. of houses repaired | No. of houses inspected | Section 25 | Section 9 and 10 | Number of houses demolished | Closing Orders | Overcrowding | No. of dwellings for working classes erected during the year | Underground rooms | Houses let in lodgings | |||||||||||
| No. of houses represented | No. of houses demolished | No. of houses repaired | No. of families overcrowded | No. of families alternative accom. obtained | No. occupied but unfit | No. closed or modified occupation approved | No. in borough | .... No. of inspections | No. of prosecutions | No. of complaints remedied | ||||||||||||
| Section 11 | Voluntarily | No. made | No. determined | |||||||||||||||||||
| By owners | L.A. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| City of London | 1,100 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 21 | – | – | 8 | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | 19 | 7 | – | – |
| Battersea | 27,541 | 4,644 | 2,075 | 10,716 | – | – | – | 11 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 268 | 92 | 64 | * | 2 | * | * | * | * |
| Bermondsey | 15,707 | 4,817 | 1,434 | 3,521 | 876 | – | – | – | – | 12 | – | 6 | 2 | 144 | 126 | 60 | 857 | 2 | 418 | 548 | – | 5 |
| Bethnal Green | 15,763 | 4,182 | 4,309 | 2,897 | 232 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 203 | 279 | 190 | * | 3 | 184 | 581 | 2 | – |
| Camberwell | 41,925 | 8,322 | 2,426 | 4,276 | – | – | 9 | 19 | 6 | 7 | – | 7 | – | 332 | 250 | 215 | * | 26 | * | * | * | * |
| Chelsea | 15,471 | 2,123 | 427 | 466 | 66 | – | – | 42 | 36 | – | – | 1 | – | 46 | 15 | 12 | – | – | 575 | * | – | – |
| Deptford | 16,123 | 3,644 | 935 | 2,657 | _ | 22 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 20 | – | 125 | 58 | 138 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Finsbury | 9,890 | 2,303 | 90 | 1,116 | 27 | – | – | – | – | – | –_ | – | – | 65 | 176 | 109 | 1,200 | – | 456 | – | – | – |
| Fulham | 30,744 | 4,723 | 2,493 | 4,902 | 293 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 5 | – | 264 | 125 | 24 | – | 255 | – | – | – | – |
| Greenwich | 21,947 | 2,451 | 316 | 1,723 | 70 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | 1 | 148 | 132 | 71 | 65 | 2 | 6 | 25 | – | – |
| Hackney | 39,154 | 8,436 | 2,607 | 6,296 | 366 | – | – | 41 | 10 | 2 | – | 1 | – | 400 | 336 | 267 | 7 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Hammersmith | 25,440 | 4,125 | 2,232 | 2,889 | – | – | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 439 | 203 | 26 | * | – | 9,600 | – | – | – |
| Hampstead | 20,086 | 2,336 | 436 | 2,140 | 45 | – | – | 11 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 135 | 95 | 57 | 512 | 10 | 1,573 | 1,070 | – | 960 |
| Holborn | 5,742 | 594 | 47 | 543 | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | 31 | 1 | – | 48 | 39 | – | 499 | 2 | 294 | 287 | – | 42 |
| Islington | 43,519 | 11,132 | 7,921 | 9,084 | 2,671 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 127 | 2 | 1 | 883 | 712 | 390 | * | 39 | * | + + | 16 | – |
| Kensington | 36,399 | 5,955 | 1,747 | 3,172 | 877 | 67 | – | 98 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 33 | 445 | 128 | 186 | 3,910 | 75 | 4,026 | 3,254 | _ | _ |
| Lambeth | 51,434 | 12,643 | 2,340 | 6,335 | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | * | – | – | 173 | 201 | 311 | * | 9 | * | * | * | * |
| Lewisham | 61,350 | 6,781 | 1,214 | 5,264 | 613 | – | – | 29 | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | 2 | 478 | 277 | 409 | – | – | * | – | – | – |
| Paddington | 22,819 | 5,932 | 1,199 | 8,946 | – | – | 15 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 421 | 315 | 193 | * | 190 | 5,879 | 942 | 18 | 381 |
| Poplar | 17,135 | 4,224 | 1,818 | 3,724 | 123 | 9 | – | – | – | 5 | – | 13 | – | 258 | 200 | 216 | 1,850 | 9 | 141 | 85 | 2 | – |
| St. Marlebone | 22,579 | 2,327 | 268 | 966 | 343 | 136 | 79 | – | – | – | 14 | 2 | – | 1,300 | 155 | 240 | 2,447 | 26 | 1,932 | 7,409 | 2 | 39 |
| St. Pancras | 26,529 | 7,334 | 2,957 | 5,401 | 66 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 647 | 768 | 239 | 1,000 | 100 | 5,000 | – | 117 | – |
| Shoreditch | 10,920 | 4,994 | 431 | 5,274 | 3,452 | 32 | – | 2 | – | 6 | – | – | – | 384 | 177 | 206 | 282 | 14 | * | * | * | * |
| Southwark | 23,749 | 5,314 | 1,129 | 2,725 | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | – | – | 45 | 316 | 164 | 110 | – | 12 | * | * | * | * |
| Stepney | 28,114 | 9,458 | 1,504 | 6,486 | 44 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 11 | – | 351 | 555 | 232 | 3,880 | 33 | 1,887 | 795 | – | 48 |
| Stoke Newington | 8,500 | 1,908 | 16,276 | 75 | 146 | – | – | 35 | – | – | – | – | – | 103 | 53 | 166 | – | 6 | 10 | – | – | – |
| Wandsworth | 94,776 | 12,913 | 6,429 | 5,967 | 91 | 80 | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 244 | 110 | 281 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 10 | – | – |
| Westminster, C. of | 22,695 | 1.935 | 74 | 1,121 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 11 | 124 | 47 | 141 | 2,540 | 60 | 3,350 | 4,166 | 8 | 4 |
| Woolwich | 38,424 | 5,627 | 1,866 | 17,110 | 83 | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | 198 | 76 | 341 | * | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 795,575 | 151,190 | 67,001 | 125,802 | 10,514 | 346 | 103 | 318 | 81 | 87 | 194 | 110 | 105 | 8,942 | 5,864 | 4,894 | 19,066 | 884 | 35,353 | 19,179 | 165 | 1,479 |