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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
Deptford 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Table XIV.
| BOROUCGH. | Percentage of structurally separate dwellings. | Rooms per Dwelling 1921 | Families per Dwelling 1921 | Persons per Family | Rooms per Person All private Families 1921 | Increase or Decrease in Dwellings. | Increase or Decrease in Private Families. | Population living more than two persons per room. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structurally Undivided Private Houses. | Maisonettes, Flats, Tenements | Attached to Shops, Offices, Warehouses. | ||||||||||
| 1921 | 1911 | |||||||||||
| 1921 | 1911 | |||||||||||
| City | 10 | 23 | 67 | 3.70 | 1.09 | 3.31 | 3.56 | 1.02 | - 356 | -590 | 689 | 1,648 |
| Bethnal Green | 59 | 29 | 12 | 4.28 | 1.51 | 4.14 | 4.48 | 0.68 | + 272 | - 97 | 31,692 | 41,152 |
| Camberwell | 81 | 10 | 9 | 6.06 | 1.60 | 3.93 | 4.33 | 0.96 | 4.1767 | + 7691 | 33,321 | 34,174 |
| Chelsea | 51 | 39 | 10 | 6.29 | 1.52 | 3.46 | 3.75 | 1.17 | + 946 | + 801 | 7,859 | 8,832 |
| Deptford | 82 | 11 | 7 | 5.98 | 1.57 | 3.93 | 4.31 | 0.96 | + 1122 | + 3033 | 14,122 | 13,185 |
| Greenwich | 82 | 9 | 9 | 5.70 | 1.39 | 4.10 | 4.38 | 0.99 | + 791 | + 2450 | 13,008 | 10,828 |
| Holborn | 16 | 61 | 23 | 4.35 | 1.49 | 3.12 | 3.59 | 0.89 | -1168 | - 902 | 5,977 | 9,716 |
| Islington | 76 | 13 | 11 | 6.54 | 2.12 | 3.59 | 3.94 | 0.85 | + 1117 | + 9950 | 62,436 | 62,789 |
| Kensington | 52 | 33 | 15 | 7.09 | 1.55 | 3.68 | 4.17 | 1.23 | + 3285 | + 5526 | 26,456 | 26,681 |
| Lewisham | 82 | 11 | 7 | 6.21 | 1.27 | 3.90 | 4.21 | 1.24 | + 2528 | + 6822 | 8,026 | 6,036 |
| Poplar | 82 | 7 | 11 | 5.18 | 1.62 | 4.19 | 4.48 | 0.76 | + 664 | + 2385 | 33,104 | 32,240 |
| St. Pancras | 67 | 17 | 16 | 6.57 | 2.30 | 3.45 | 3.84 | 0.82 | - 407 | + 4343 | 43,687 | 51,214 |
| Southwark | 50 | 40 | 10 | 4.52 | 1.62 | 3.79 | 4.10 | 0.73 | + 1750 | + 2499 | 41,574 | 46,800 |
| Woolwich | 89 | 4 | 7 | 5.26 | 1.29 | 3.92 | 4.27 | 1.03 | + 4672 | + 7338 | 10,270 | 7,110 |
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