Public baths and washhouses and public libraries.

  • County of London.
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Public baths and washhouses and public libraries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    In 7 of these parishts polls have been taken on the question as to whether the Acts should be adopted, but in every case an adverse majority has been recorded. The following is a list showing the date when the last poll was taken and the number of votes polled— Number of votes polled. Parish. Date of last poll. For. Against. Majority against. Hackney July, 1891 5,703 7,076 1,373 Islington Jan., 1897 11,344 14,413 3,069 Paddington ... May, 1891 1,590 4,528 2,938 St. Marylebone May, 1898 4,241 4,617 376 St. Pancras Oct., 1898 4,849 8,278 3,429 Greenwich District parishes— Deptford, St. Paul July, 1894 2,316 3,652 1,236 Greenwich ... Feb., 1891 1,633 2,592 959 Accommodation. Most of the libraries established in London consist of three departments, viz., a lending department, from which duly qualified persons may borrow books for the purpose of home reading ; a reference department, in which any person over the prescribed limit of age may obtain books for the purpose of reference on the premises ; and a news and reading-room, where the current numbers of newspapers, periodicals, magazines, &c., are provided. In the parishes where, on account of their large area, it is necessary to have more than one establishment, it is usual to provide a reference library at a large central establishment and to limit the branches to a lending library and news, &c., rooms. This, however, is not always the case. The following is a summary of the number of establishments provided in London up to the present, but in considering this table it must be borne io- mind that it is in no way intended to serve as a basis of comparison between area and area— Library area. Number of establishments. Number of establishments from which books may be borrowed for home reading. Number of establishments at which books may be consulted for reference purposes. Number of establishments in which a news, &c., room is proyided. Battersea 3 3 1 3 Bermondsey ... 1 1 1 1 Bromley 1 1 1 Camberwell ... ... ... ;.. 6 5 3 4 Camberwell and Lambeth ... 1 1 1 1 Chelsea 2 2 2 2 Christchui'ch, Southwark ... 1 1 1 1 Clapham 1 1 1 1 Clerk enw ell ... 1 1 1 1 Fnlham 2 2 2 2 Hammersmith 3 3 2 3 Hampstead 4 3 3 4 Holborn ... 1 1 1 1 Kensington 3 3 1 3 Lambeth 5 5 ■ 1 5 Lewisham 1 1 1 Newington ... 1 1 1 1 Penge ... ... 1 1 1 1 Poplar... 2 2 1 2 Putney ... .... ... 1 1 1 1 Rotherhithe ... 1 (a) 1 (a) 1 1 St. George-in-the-East 1 1 1 1 St. George, Hanover-square 2 1) 2 2 St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark 1 1 1 1 St. Giles 1 1 1 1 St. Margaret and St. John ... 2 2 ■ 2 2 St. Martin and St. Paul 1 ] 1 1 St. Saviour, Southwark 1 1 1 1 Shoreditch .) 2 2 2 Stoke Newington 1 1 1 1 Streatham 2 2 1 2 Wandsworth ... 2 2 1 2 Whitechapel ... 1 (6) 1 (b) 1 1 Totals 67 41 57 (a) Rotherhithe—There is also a del very stat on for the bonks of the Central Library. («) Whitechapel—There are also two dehvery stations for the books of the Central Library.