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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 177
The following Table, which is prepared from the figures given
in the summary, shows the percentage to total number of families,
of those living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards, in
the separate Wards and in the whole Borough, in the premises
inspected in 1914.

Southfield and Fairfield Wards had the highest percentage of
families living in one room, and Balham the lowest. Clapham
North and Balham had the highest percentage living in two rooms
and Tooting the lowest. Putney had the highest percentage living
in three rooms, and Clapham South the lowest. Tooting and
Clapham South had the highest percentage living in four rooms and
upwards, and Streatham the lowest.
in the Borough, of the total families whose houses were inspected
during the year, viz.:—3,454, 8.28 per cent. lived in one
room, compared with 9.50 per cent. in 1913, 9.50 in 1912, and 8.7
per cent. in 1911; 10.97 per cent. in two rooms compared with
12.90, 13.44, and 14.8; 29.19 per cent. in three rooms compared
with 27.44, 24.85, and 25.2; and 51.56 per cent. in four rooms and
upwards compared with 50.16, 52.4, and 51.3.