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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
Deptford 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Upon the land known as the Honor Oak Estate, the County
Council have now completed within the Borough of Deptford seven
blocks comprising 192 tenements and 8 shops.
Private enterprise built 47 houses.
The London County Council provide accommodation upon their
various estates, for families from Deptford, and the following figures
indicate the number of families for whom provision was made in
1934:—
Families
Downham Estate 120
Honor Oak Estate 108
Bellingham Estate 54
Deptford Park Estate 47
Becontree Estate 42
St. Helier Estate 40
Hughes' Fields Estate 34
East Greenwich Estate 16
Other estates 15
Total 476
This total represents 99 more families than were housed during the
year 1933.