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by the Registrar-General, i.e., with more than 2
persons per room in tenements of four rooms or less.
In North Paddington the percentage of overcrowding
was 2076, and in South, 6.97.
At the close of 1894 and the beginning of 1895,
the Inspectors were instructed to visit certain streets,
and make house-to-house inquiries as to the number
of inhabitants and their house accommodation. The
streets visited were chosen on account of the prevalence
of infectious disease to, what appeared to be,
an unduly large amount. The results of the enumerations
(if they can be so called) are given in Tables 3
and 4. In Table 3 will be found the numbers of
rooms and of houses in each street, in occupation;
the total number of persons is shown in column 5,
and the numbers of persons under and above 10 years
of age, in columns 3 and 4 respectively.
Of the streets visited, the average number of persons
per house was lowest in Andover Place, 6.0 per
house, whilst the highest, 17.0, was found in
Clarendon Street. All the streets mentioned in Table
3 are in North Paddington, in which the average
number of persons per house was at the date of the
last Census 8.9—an average which should be borne
in mind in comparing the figures in the Table. With
regard to the age-constitution of the populations of
the streets, the percentage of children under 10 years
of age varied from 30.8 in Woodchester Street, to
40.2 in John Street, the percentage for the whole of
North Paddington being 20.2. Having regard to the