London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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predisposition which young children manifest to the
infectious fevers, the variations in these proportions
should, ceteris paribus, influence the incidence of
such diseases.
TABLE 3.
| No. of Occupied | Inhabitants. | Persons per | Percentage of Population under 10 Years. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses. | Rooms. | Under 10. | Over 10. | Persons. | House. | Room. | ||
At the date of the last Census there were in North
Paddington 14,328 tenements of four rooms or less,
containing 49,030 inhabitants. Of these tenements
3,086 were occupied by more than two persons per
room, neglecting the question of the ages of the
occupants, and were therefore classed as overcrowded,
the inhabitants so overcrowded numbering 19,471—
equal to 20.76 per cent, of the total population of the
district. In column 16 of Table 4 will be found the
percentages of individuals similarly overcrowded to
total populat ion of each street, the numbers varying from
12.1 per cent. in John Street, to 71.4 in Dudley
Street. This state of overcrowding, theoretical
though the standard be, is another factor having a
considerable influence on the incidence of disease.