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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

Holborn 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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Table: Number of Tenements. At the Census, 1921, the total number of private families in the Holborn Borough was 9,682 in comparison with 10,584 at the Census, 1911. The following table gives details of the tenements of one, two, three and four rooms:—

Number of Tenements. At the Census, 1921, the total number of private families in the Holborn Borough was 9,682 in comparison with 10,584 at the Census, 1911. The following table gives details of the tenements of one, two, three and four rooms:—

Tenements withNumber of Tenements.Percentage of all Private Families.Total Occupants.Percentage of Population in each group of Tenements.Average Occupants per room.Overcrowding
No. of 1-4 room Tenements with more than two Occupants per Room.Number of Occupants of such Rooms.Percentage of population in such Tenements.
1911192119111921191119211911192119111921191119211911192119111921
One room2398215922.622.34945363010.08.42.061.67611319238211564.832.68
Two rooms3447313132.632.311412914223.121.21.651.46755451450626219.136.06
Three Rooms2177221720.622.98713824617.719.11.181.24262221211017194.273.98
Four Rooms99910649.411.0429541618.79.610.70.9854415454021.100.93
Total9021857185.288.7293652517959.558.31.481.30168210329543589819.3313.65

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The word " overcrowding" is used in the sense that the tenements were occupied by more than two persons per room, and not in the legal sense,
for of the 1,032 "overcrowded " tenements there were probably comparatively few for which the Council could take action to abate overcrowding.