Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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TABLE I.
Wards. | Possible No. ot Houses fit for Occupation, 1909. | New Houses certified as fit for occupation in 1910. | Empty, Tune, 1910 (Overseers' Lists). | Possible Occupied Midyear, 1910. | Occupied Education Returns, January, 1910. | Proportion empty in 1910. | Proportion empty at Census, 1901. | Average number per House Census. | Assigned Population, 1910. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. James Street | 4,300 | 11 | 310 | 4,001 | 4,118 | 1 in 13 | 1 in 21 | 6 | 25,000 |
High Street | 3,465 | 9 | 220 | 3,254 | 3,617 | 1 in 15 | 1 in 24 | 63 | 23,000 |
Hoe Street | 4,810 | 20 | 266 | 4,564 | 4,744 | 1 in 17 | 1 in 15 | 5.5 | 25,000 |
Wood Street | 3,141 | 6 | 209 | 2,938 | 3,007 | 1 in 14 | 1 in 15 | 6 | 18,500 |
Northern | 7,233 | 196 | 577 | 7,552 | 7,059 | 1 in 13 | 1 in 7 | 5.7 | 40,500 |
Whole District | 23,694 | 242 | 1,582 | 22,309 | 22,545 | 1 in 15 | 1 in 13.8 | 5.9 | 132,000 (or 131,623, 5.9 persons to house). |
EDUCATION AUTHORITY'S FIGURES.
Houses fit for Occupation. | Houses Empty. | Houses Occupied. | Houses in Course of Construction. | Population (at 5 9 per house) |
---|---|---|---|---|
24,036 | 1,491 | 22,545 | 53 | 133,015 |
Registrar-General's Estimate | 141,748 |