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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
Paddington 1894
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1894
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| No of rooms to a tenement. | Total No. of tenements. | Total No. of inhabitants. | Average No. of inhabitants. | % of total population living in tenements of — rooms. | OVERCROWDING. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of tenements | No. of inhabitants | % of — roomed tenements overcrowded. | % of inhabitants of each class of tenement overcrowded. | % of total population living overcrowded in each class of tenement. | ||||||
| Per tenement. | Per room. | |||||||||
| Overcrowded. | ||||||||||
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10. | 11. |
| 1. | 4,785 | 9,676 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 8.20 | 1,239 | 4,636 | 25.8 | 47.91 | 3.93 |
| 2 | 5,537 | 19,589 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 16.63 | 1,582 | 9,597 | 28.6 | 48.99 | 8.14 |
| 3 | 4,858 | 19,009 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 16.13 | 531 | 4,192 | 10.9 | 22.05 | 3.56 |
| 4 | 2,028 | 9,824 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 8.34 | 144 | 1,395 | 7.1 | 14.20 | 1.18 |
Total number of tenements enumerated 27,201
Do. inhabitants do. 117,846
Average number of inhabitants per tenement 4.33
Total number of inhabitants overcrowded 19,820
Equal to 16*82 per cent, of total population.
| No of rooms to a tenement. | Total No. of tenements. | Total No. of inhabitants. | Average No. of inhabitants. | % of total population living in tenements of — rooms. | OVERCROWDING. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of tenements. | No. of inhabitants. | % of — roomed tenements overcrowded. | % of inhabitants of each class of tenement overcrowded. | % of total population living overcrowded in each claas of tenement. | ||||||
| Per tenement. | Per room. | |||||||||
| Overcr owded. | ||||||||||
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10. | 11. |
| 1 | 3,925 | 8,147 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 9.6 | 1,097 | 4,116 | 27.9 | 50.5 | 4.8 |
| 2 | 4,664 | 16,841 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 20.0 | 1,400 | 8,495 | 30.0 | 50.4 | 10.9 |
| 3 | 4,198 | 16,536 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 19.6 | 477 | 3,770 | 11.3 | 22.7 | 4.4 |
| 4 | 1,541 | 7,506 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 8.8 | 112 | 1,091 | 7.2 | 14.6 | 1.2 |
Total number of tenements enumerated 20,397
Do. inhabitants do. 84,159
Average number of inhabitants per tenement 4.11
Total number of inhabitants overcrowded 17,471
Equal to 20*76 per cent, of total population.