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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
1910 shows that the number of rooms in new dwellings provided during the year in the County of
London was 6,950, the number of rooms in dwellings demolished 3,992, and that the net addition to
the number of rooms was therefore 2,958. The figures in respect of the adjoining districts were
25,179, 4,268 and 20,911 respectively. The average rents for each room at which the new dwellings
were let or to be let were during 1910, 3s. 1d. in the central districts of London, 2s. 7¼d. in the outer
districts of London and 2s. l½d. in the extra-London districts.
The Council has published a history of the housing question in London up to the year 1900*,
and an account of the Council's housing work since that date is in course of preparation.
History of
housing
question.
* The Housing Question in London, 1855-1900 (No. 503.)