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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

Marylebone 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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tenements is 162 square feet super, and 1,356 cubic feet,
hence they will accommodate man, wife, and child. The
probable population of the whole buildings when occupied
will be 450.

Table: The following is a schedule of the rents to be charged

The following is a schedule of the rents to be charged

Rent Per Week.Estimated Kate.Total.
1-roomed tenement2/88d.3/4
to
3/-8d.3/8
2-roomed4/61/-5/6
to
5/41/26/6
3-roomed „6/21/47/6
to
7/-1/78/7

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The population of the old Nightingale Street, as
determined by successive censuses taken by the Sanitary
Inspectors, varied from 390 to about 40!). The number of
families being 130. In 1884 it was found that 97 of the
families occupied single rooms. The death-rate was over
24 per thousand, the sickness rate high, infective maladies
spread rapidly, nuisances abounded and constantly recurred.
It is, therefore, a subject of considerable moment and one
for congratulation that, mainly owing to the public spirit of
Lord Portman, so useful a block of habitations has taken
the place of a slum, and that the rents to be charged will
be within the means of a considerable section of the displaced
population.