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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

Woolwich 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE No. 80.

TABLE No. 80.

Year.Houses or Tenements.No. of persons in excess of two persons per room.Houses originally built for one family now occupied by more than one family.Persons per House.Rooms per person.
With less than two persons per room.With two persons per room.With more than two persons per room.
192020753332724376045.6.83
192121452983573646975.5.87
1922338437123239013095.3.94
192327082802043257735.4.96

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Unhealthy Areas. No areas have been represented under
Part I of the Housing Act, 1890, and no complaints that
areas are unhealthy have been made.
ACTION TAKEN UNDER THE HOUSING ACTS,
1909 and 1919.
As far as houses were concerned, no action was taken under
the Housing Act, 1909, during the year, but five houses were
dealt with in accordance with the provisions of Section 28
of the Housing, Town Planning, etc. Act, 1919. At the end
of the year the necessary repairs had been satisfactorily
completed in four cases. In the other case the work had been
started. In December, your Medical Officer drew the attention
of the Committee to 13 cases where underground rooms
were illegally occupied. Having regard to the present housing
difficulties and to the sanitary conditions of these rooms, it
was resolved to take no action in seven cases. With regard
to the other six cases, as the Council meeting was in January,
1924, the action taken must, for the purposes of this report,
be shewn as pending at the end of the year.