London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Density of Occupation
The following table shows the number of rooms occupied by households according to
the size of the family. Possible overcrowding under the Housing Act is shown to the
right of the heavy line, but as it is not possible to differentiate between children and
adults nor to allow for separation of sexes, these figures should only be taken as a
general indication A similar analysis following the 1951 census showed 1,324 families
as possibly overcrowded compared with 764 on this occasion.
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 | Over crowded families | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||
| 1 | 68 | 295 | 669 | 928 | 1975 | 1180 | 558 | |||||||
| 2 | 56 | 121 | 1296 | 2416 | 2675 | 4058 | 1227 | 183 | ||||||
| 3 | 76 | - | 177 | 1415 | 2211 | 2173 | 2145 | 466 | 89 | 89 | ||||
| 4 | 7 | 81 | - | 193 | 1267 | 1847 | 1375 | 1131 | 239 | 50 | 289 | |||
| 5 | 5 | 62 | - | 117 | 705 | 1010 | 604 | 357 | 89 | 17 | 106 | |||
| 6 | 5 | 47 | - | 80 | 344 | 432 | 205 | 98 | 24 | 2 | 124 | |||
| 7 | 20 | - | 45 | 156 | 188 | 68 | 47 | 7 | 54 | |||||
| 8 | 2 | 21 | - | 25 | 103 | 86 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 60 | ||||
| 9 | 4 | - | 7 | 36 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 22 | ||||||
| 10 | 1 | 16 | - | 8 | 35 | 47 | 20 | 20 | ||||||
| Possibly overcrowded families | 764 | |||||||||||||
Tenure of Accommodation
Analysis of the tenure of occupation shows the percentage of households classified
by tenure as follows:-
Owner-occupiers 30.6% (50.8%)
Tenants by virtue of employment 1.3% (2.3%)
Tenants with business premises included 1.0% (.7%)
Tenants of local authorities 14.9% (13.3%)
Tenants of unfurnished privately owned dwellings 46.6% (26.0%)
Tenants of furnished privately owned dwellings 5.6% (6.9%)