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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 1914

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

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Table: EAST DISTRICT.

EAST DISTRICT.

Name and situation of Artizans' Block Dwellings.No. of Tenements.No. of Inhabitants
One Room.Two Rooms.Three Rooms.Four Rooms.Five, or more Rooms.
Harrow Alley and Stoney Lane—
North Block...488......217
South ,,52213......178
Prince's „550.........167
Queen's ,,5405......160
King's „81616......158
Barker's Buildings, Catherine Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate12103......64
Total3518645......944

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These Blocks of Dwellings, containing 454 tenements, are inhabited by
1,394 persons, an average of 3.1 persons to each tenement.
COMMON LODGING-HOUSE,
116, Middlesex Street.
The Salvation Army "Working Men's Hotel and Shelter," opened on the
7th February, 1906, at 116, Middlesex Street, is the only Common Lodging-House in
the City. Accommodation is provided for 455 persons (including a staff of 26), and
the charge for the hotel portion is 5d. per night, and for the Shelter 2d. per night,
These prices include a bath and disinfection of clothing. Food can be purchased at
the Hotel cheaply. The premises are periodically inspected and always found to be
well managed and kept in a cleanly condition. During the year, there has been no
repetition of the nuisance formerly complained of, caused by a number of men
congregating outside waiting for admission and spitting on the pavement. As men so
waiting, numbered on occasions over 100, this nuisance was very real, and the cessation
is doubtless due to the action of the Authorities, who refuse admission to applicants
if they have been waiting about in the immediate vicinity of the premises before the
doors open at 5 p.m.