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The dwellings occupied by one private family numbered 6,714 and contained
23,504 rooms, those occupied by two private families numbered 3,869 and contained
21,019 rooms, and those occupied by three private families numbered 3,144 and
contained 21,622 rooms.
Of 25,373 families, 4,044 were living in the 1 to 3-roomed dwellings, 7,134 in
the 4 to 5-roomed, 12,292 in the 6 to 8 and 1,903 were resident in the dwellings
containing 9 rooms and over, the numbers of which are given above.
The average number of persons to the family was approximately four. The
number of persons in Shoreditch to each room averaged approximately 1.5, varying
from 1.6 in Church and Whitmore to 1.3 in Moorfields and Acton Wards. The
average number of persons per room in the Metropolis works out at slightly over
one. Shoreditch is the worst off in all London with respect to the number of
persons per room.
Briefly the foregoing figures indicate that Shoreditch is an extremely densely
populated working-class district, inhabited by people living under conditions
prejudicial to health and likely to favour the prevalence of infectious disease.