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number of houses occupied has been increased and
there must be consequently more room for the inhabitants
in the houses they occupy.
If we again take the above figures to ascertain the
number of people living in each house in the three
districts we shall find that on an average there are
7 persons in a house in St. James's Square
Division.
12 persons in a house in Golden Square
Division.
15 persons in a house in Berwick Street
Division.
Although we have diminished the number of our
population and increased the number of our inhabited
houses, I find no district in London so overcrowded
as the Berwick Street Division of St. James's,
Westminster. It is not as though the houses in
Berwick Street were all large houses, as in the St.
James's Square Division, but that they are all more
or less small houses, nor are all the houses equally
populated, for some of them are as sparsely populated
as the houses in St. James's Square Division. The
real position is that these figures point not to 6 or
8 roomed houses with 15 people in each, but to a
number of small houses occupied by from 20 to 40
persons living under circumstances of overcrowding
that is unequalled for the same extent, perhaps, in
any city in Europe. To reduce Berwick Street
Division alone to a standard of 500 cubic feet for