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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
Islington 1893
Thirty-eighth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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however many families, living in distinct tenements or apartments, it
Definition of might be occupied. By a tenment was to be understood
tenement." any house or part of a house separately occupied either by
the owner or by a tenant; and a separate schedule was to be given to
the occupier of each such tenement."
These definitions, which were plain enough, were, it is stated by
the Registrar General, misunderstood in many instances by the
enumerators, and consequently errors arose, which, wherever they were
detected, were rectified.
From Table III. (Registrar-General's) I have constructed the
following table which gives the actual number of persons living
in similar tenements, and shows the aggregation of the people
in family groups consisting of 1 to 12 persons in each group.
Table IV.
| Rooms in Tenements. | Number of Occupants in Groups from 1 to 12. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Totals | |
| Column. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1 | 4,559 | 8,480 | 6,411 | 4,776 | 2,485 | 954 | 357 | 80 | 36 | 40 | 11 | — | 28,189 |
| 2 | 1,293 | 8,194 | 10,968 | 11,660 | 10,675 | 7,824 | 5,271 | 3,032 | 1,197 | 390 | 99 | 36 | 60,639 |
| 3 | 392 | 4,678 | 7,218 | 8,140 | 7,500 | 7,092 | 6,034 | 3,928 | 2,394 | 870 | 396 | 120 | 48,762 |
| 4 | 100 | 1,662 | 3,456 | 5,204 | 6,425 | 6,708 | 6,181 | 4,816 | 3,708 | 2,050 | 902 | 528 | 41,740 |
| Totals | 6,344 | 23,014 | 28,053 | 29,780 | 27,085 | 22,578 | 17,843 | 11,856 | 7,335 | 3,350 | 1,408 | 684 | 179,330 |