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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
Tottenham 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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DWELLINGS - DENSITY OF OCCUPATION
| No. of Persons in Family | Families where No. of rooms exceeds persons by - | Fams. where No. of rooms equals persons | Families where No. of Persons exceeds rooms by - | Overcrowded families | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 + | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6+ | |||
| 1 | 19 | 121 | 303 | 584 | 1, 567 | 1, 4 36 | 769 | |||||||
| 2 | 23 | 73 | 590 | 1,987 | 2, 276 | 4, 680 | 1,841 | 281 | ||||||
| 3 | 6 | 16 | 10 2 | 930 | 2,367 | 2, 454 | 3,370 | 964 | 200 | 200 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 122 | 918 | 2,10 4 | 1,780 | 1,990 | 434 | 75 | 509 | |||
| 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 90 | 533 | 1, 16 3 | 868 | 697 | 100 | 14 | 114 | |||
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 53 | 284 | 513 | 398 | 229 | 20 | 4 | 253 | |||
| 7 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 37 | 139 | 251 | 187 | 62 | 4 | 2 | 68 | |||
| 8 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 64 | 110 | 75 | 23 | 3 | 101 | |||||
| 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 57 | 36 | 10 | 46 | |||||
| 10+ | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 40 | 33 | 33 | ||||||
(NOTE In arriving at the number of families overcrowded by Housing Act
standards, it has not been possible to differentiate between
children under 10 and those over, nor to allow for separation
of sexes) .