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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
Chislehurst 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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(iv) Overcrowding.
The position with regard to overcrowding is shown in the following Table:-
| WARD | Number of Cases July 1936 | No. cases at 31st December | 31 Dec., 1044 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | Number of Cases found during year | Number of Cases remedied during year | Cases at end of year | ||||
| Number cases | No. persons concerned | |||||||||||||
| Aged over 10 | Aged under 10 | |||||||||||||
| Lamorbey E. | 12 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 38 | 13 | |
| w. | ||||||||||||||
| Longlands | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| Birchwood | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Frognal | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| North Cray | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| St. Pauls Cray | 4 | 8 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 16 |
| Chislehurst Common | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mottingham | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 9 |
| Totals | 44 | 51 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 110 | 47 |