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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

Beckenham 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]

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Table: Disinfection of Premises.

Disinfection of Premises.

Month.ROOMS FUMIGATED.
Scarlet Fever.Typhoid Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Cancer.Phthisis.Pneumonia.Measles.Miscellaneous.Total
January6......24......315
February5...1............17
March1021...4......219
April43114......417
May31......3......310
June3...142.........10
July61121......314
August...12...3......39
September1...2...5.........8
October2...142......211
November6......23......415
December51425......926
Totals519141736......34161

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SCHOOLS—(See page 67.)
HOUSING.
1. General Housing Conditions.—The houses in a large portion
of the District are large and detached or sermi-detached dwellings,
well built and of a high residential character. There is no property
in the District which could be classed as "Slum'' property. In
those areas where the so-called working classes reside the houses
are, generally speaking, well built and in good repair. There has
been a tendency in recent years to convert some of the larger houses
into self-contained Hats. (See also page 9, population and density.)
2. (a) Shortage of Houses.—Like many other Districts there
has been since the War a definite shortage of houses. The number
of houses in which we find from two to four families living, as compared
with the number in pre-war days, has increased very