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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    I.—Pul)lic Baths ai Parish served by baths, &c., and situation of baths. Authority administering tlie Baths, &c. Acts. Estimated population of parish, April, 1898. Occupiers of tenements in parish, 1891. Date of adoption of Baths, &c.,Acts by parish. Date of opening of baths, 6tc Accommodatic Priva Class of tenement occupied by one family. Number of occupiers 1st class. 2nd class. Charges. Number of baths. Number of bathei s during 1897-8. Charges. Number of baths. iXiiiuber of bather during lfci(7-8. St. Saviour, Soutli wark— Baths and Washhouses Lavington-street, South wark-street Commis- sioners 11,618 [not ascer i ainable' Nov., 1891 April, 1895 Warm, 6d. Cold, 3d. (including soap) 12 M 5 F 17 18,435 M 639 F 19,074 - Warm, 5 Cold, Ic (soap ^< extra) »d. 1. J. 23 M 10 F 33 45.093 ] 10;598 55,691 Shoreditch— Btitha and Washhouses, Pitfield-street, Hoxton A^estry of Shoreditch 121,794 1 room or less 2 rooms 3 „ 4 „ 20,112 30,300 24,559 20,258 95,229 1852, 1882, and Oct., 1892 March 1899 ' Warm, 6d. Cold, 6d. 12 tickets, 4s. 6d. (including soap) 20 M 5 F Warm, 2d. Cold, Id. (soap, ^d. extray 36 M 15 F 51 Wandsworth— Site for Baths, High-street, Wandsworth Commis- sioners 61,641 [not ascert ainable ] Nov., 1897 Whitechapel— Baths and Washhouses, Goulston-street, Whitechapel Commis- sioners 35,041 [not ascert ainable] Oct., 1874 Private baths and laundry, A.ug.,'78. Swim- ming baths, May,'86. Recon- structed July, '96 Warm, 6d. Cold, 3d. (including soap) 1 31 M 9 F 40 27,285 M 3,400 F Warm, 2d. Cold, Id. (soap Jd. extra) 60 ■ M 18 F 78 84,299 : 27,150 1 30 685 111,449 Woolwich— Baths, Market-street, Woolwich Local Board of Woolwich 41,426 1 room or less 2 rooms a ., 4 „ 2,951 4.8G5 6.584 7,280 20,680 July, 1890 June, 1894 Warm, 6d. Cold, 3d. 12 tickets, 5s. '- (soap Id. extra) 21 M 4 F 25 21,870 M 890 F Warm, 2d. Cold, Id. (soap Id. extra) 30 8 M F 48,931 1! 8,924 I 22,760(a) 38 57,855 (a) Woolwich—In addition to these numbers, there were 1,320 who used book tickets. No record is kept of the proportion of Buch batliers using the priTate or the swimming baths.