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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 1895

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1895

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endeavour will be made to obtain the populations of
the sanitary districts.
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
At the date of the last census there were 95.1
persons to the acre in the whole Parish—105.8 in
the Sub-District of St. Mary, and 75.8 in that of St.
John. At the middle of 1895 these figures were 99.0,
116.4. and 72.4 respectively.

Table: TABLE 2.

TABLE 2.

Whole Parish.St. Mary.St. John.
Census Returns, 1891.Area in acres (less water)1,239795444
Inhabited Houses14,4739,4205,053
Houses per acre11.611.811.3
Persons enumerated117,84684,15933,687
Persons per acre95.1105.875.8
Persons per House8.18.96.6
On Estimated Population of each Year.Persons per acre, 189296.2108.374.6
,, „ 189397.2110.373.8
„ 189498.0112.573.3
„ ,, 189599.0116.472.4

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HOUSING OF THE POPULATION.
In the whole Parish, the average number of
individuals per house was, at the date of the last
census, 8.1. In North Paddington there were 8.9
persons per house, and in South, 6.6. Of the whole
population of the Parish, 16.82 per cent, lived under
conditions that constituted overcrowding, as measured