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Islington 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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1911]
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decrease of population that might have been caused by the less crowded state of
the many houses let out in lodgings or occupied by more than one family in the
ward.
Although only a year has elapsed since the census was taken, there can be
no question as to the re-occupation of many of the houses, which were then
unoccupied. As for example in Tollington, where there has been a decided
decrease in the number of unlet residences. To a notable but much less extent
houses unoccupied twelve months in Lower Holloway, are now occupied by
tenants,, while in Highbury many houses that were empty are now let as
boarding houses.

Table: T able VII.Showing thePopulationsand theSeparate OccupationsorFamiliesof the severalRegistration Sub-Districtsat theCensus, 1901and1911.

T able VII.

Showing thePopulationsand theSeparate OccupationsorFamiliesof the severalRegistration Sub-Districtsat theCensus, 1901and1911.

Registration Districts.Populations.Families or Separate Occupiers.
1901.1911.Increase or Decrease.19011911Increase or Decrease.
Tufnell31,99533,526+ 1,5317,3068,190+ 884
Upper Holloway33.97837,116+ 3,1387,4878,309+ 822
Tollington33,92230,609- 3,3137,5647,249- 315
Lower Holloway4M2439,352— 2,0729,2439,068- 175
Highbury*63,79761,992*- 1,80514,90115,229*+ 328
Barnsbury54,47853,021- 1,45713,781I3,3H- 467
South-East Islington*75,39771,787*-3,61018,84718,599*— 248
The Borough334,991327,403- 7,58879,12979,902+ 773

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* The corrected figures for Census 1911 are not yet published for these districts.
This is an interesting Table, for it brings into prominence a most
remarkable and interesting feature of the census; that although the population
had decreased by 7,588 persons in the ten years 1901-10, yet the number of
families or separate occupiers had increased by 773. These increases are,
however, confined to three of the sub-registration districts: Tufnell, Upper
Holloway, and Highbury. It is not difficult to supply a reason for the increases