Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1902.

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deficiency Occupants of overcrowded portion of house. Rooms occupied and cubic ft. space. Address. Space required. State of Premises and Family. cub. ft. 95 Husband, a waterside labourer, and works very irregularly. He earns 2/6 to 3/- per day. Does not get £1 a week. Does not drink. Place fairly clean, bedclothes dirty. Woods Place Man, wife and 1 child, aged 3 months Living and sleeping, 1000 cubic ft. Front room, 1st floor, 905 cubic ft. Woods Place Man and wife Living and sleeping, 800 cubic ft. Back room, 1st floor, 574 cubic ft. 226 Husband a waterside labourer, wages and work irregular. He is steady, but does not earn £1 a week. Earns from 2/- to 4/- per day, according to work. States that work has been very bad for the last three months. Very poor, and very few bedclothes. Place fairly clean. Salisbury Street Man, wife and 2 child ren, aged 16 F, and 14 M. Living and sleeping, 1600 cubic ft. Back room, 1st floor, 1228 cubic ft. 372 Husband a carman. Rom fairly clean, but bed dirty. Owes 9/-. Sleeping, 750 cubic ft. Back ante-room, 455 cubic ft. Husband ill. Earns 30/-and gives wife 24/- per week. Rent 6/6. Place clean. Bracton Road 3 children, 14, 10½, and 8 years 295 Woods Place 4 children, 10 F, 9 F, 5 F, and 8 M. Living and sleeping, 800 cubic ft. Back room, 1st floor, 535 cubic ft. 265 A labourer at leather merchants. Earns about £1 a week. Place fairly clean. Husband, a stevedore, who lives apart from his wife, pays the rent of the room. The mother earns something by selling old clothes.The two girls earn 12/- each per week at a jam factory. This is a bad case of overcrowding. Marine Street Mother and 3 children, 21 F, 18 F, 5 M. Living and sleeping, 1400 cubic ft. Back room, grd. floor, 648 cubic ft. 752 5 girls aged 15, 14, 12, 10 and 8, and 1 boy, aged 5 Gilhams Court Sleeping, 1350 cubic ft. Attic room, 544 cubic ft. 806 Husband, a dock labourer, who, when in full work can earn 4/- a day, but owing to bronchitis, he can very rarely do a whole week's work. One daughter contributes 6/- per week. A lodger pays 3/- per week for one room. The rent of house is 8/- per week. The people are clean and tidy, but very poor. Gilhams Court Man, wife and 2 children, aged 14 F., 9 M. Sleeping, 1050 cubic ft. Attic, 558 cubic ft. 492 Husband a dock labourer, steady, making a precarious living, the amount earned in the previous week being 7/6. Wife works at a pickle manufactory at 9/- per week. Rent is 9/-, and lodger pays 5/- per week. The attic is clean, but the bedclothes are scanty, and not very clean. Father, a labourer at Hayes Wharf, earns 28/- per week. The son, aged 18 years, is out of work. A fourth son, aged 23 years, sleeps in the first floor front (he is also out of work), and the mother in the first floor back. The attic is clean, but the bedclothes are scanty and dirty. The house in general is dirty and untidy. Gilhams Court Father and 3 sons, ages 18, 10, and 9 years. Sleeping, 1050 cubic ft. Attic, 558 cubic ft. 492 Staples Rents 4 girls, aged 10, 7, 5 and 3 years, and 1 boy aged 9 years Attic, 550 cubic ft. Husband works at Peek, Frean & Co.'s, and earns 21/- per week. Rent, 7/-per week. People are clean and tidy, but poor. Sleeping, 900 cubic ft. 350 Rent, 7/- per week. People fairly clean and tidy. In this case the overcrowding could be abated by using the attic, which is at present unoccupied. The mother objects to using it as she states it is not healthy for the children. It would not be so unhealthy as sleeping in the way they are at present. Staples Rents Man, wife and 5 children, ages 11 M., 9 F., 6 F., 4 F., 1½ F. Sleeping, 1500 cubic ft. Room, 1st floor, 1218 cubic ft. 282 Turners Retreat 3 girls, aged 14, 10 and 8 years, and 2 boys, 14 and 9 years Sleeping, 1200 cubic ft. Room, 1st floor, 770 cubic ft. 430 The people are very poor, but the house and contents are fairly clean for the neighbourhood.