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PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Public Offices,
Dyne Road, Kilburn, N.W.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Housing of the Working Classes Committee.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you some
of the data relating to housing, which I have tabulated
from the records under my care. During the
last two years the Officers of your Public Health
Department in the course of their systematic inspection
by house-to-house visitation, have enquired into
the conditions of housing of over 23,000 people,
living in some 5,164 tenements, chiefly of the working
classes.
Before passing to the consideration of these
results, however, I should like to call attention to
some facts which I am able to lay before you relative
to the distribution of the whole of that section of