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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

City of London 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: TENEMENT HOUSES.

TENEMENT HOUSES.

District.No. of Houses on Register.No. of Lodgers.No. of Tenements.Average No. of Persons per Tenement.Cleansing Notices Served.
West1341,1384392.59159
Middle38107502.1444
East1228563522.43147
Total2942,1018412.49350

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The houses in question are periodically inspected, and in April of each
year their owners called upon to undertake a thorough cleansing of them, in
accordance with the provisions of your Bye-laws. This necessitated the
service of a total of 350 Notices during the year.
A list of registered tenement houses is given in Appendix C (p. 172).
The following are the corresponding figures for 1898, and show the reduction
in this class of property in the City since that date:—

Table: Tenement Houses (1898).

Tenement Houses (1898).

District.No. of Houses on Register.No. of Lodgers.No. of Tenements.Average No. of Persons per Tenement.Cleansing Notices Served.
West2121,9178022.39160
Middle866602352.8152
East1891,4936212.40158
Total4874,0701,6582.45370

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In addition to the foregoing there are eleven Blocks of Dwellings let out in
tenements, but not placed on the Register for the reason that each holding is
"self-contained," it having been decided in a Court of Law that in these