Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of 1903
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BOROUGH. | Area in Acres. | In-habited. | Uninhabited. | Total Houses. | No. of Houses per Acre. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In oc-cupation | Not in oc-cupation | |||||
Shoreditch | 657 | 12743 | 1150 | 252 | 14145 | 21•5 |
Southwark | 1131 | 20878 | 996 | 508 | 22382 | 19•7 |
Bethnal Green | 759 | 14006 | 357 | 324 | 14686 | 19•3 |
Stepney | 1765 | 31462 | 1042 | 592 | 33096 | 18•7 |
City of London | 672 | 3865 | 5762 | 437 | 10064 | 14•9 |
Holborn | 405 | 4703 | 989 | 219 | 5911 | 14•6 |
Chelsea | 659 | 8641 | 422 | 344 | 9407 | 14•3 |
Paddington | 1356 | 17684 | 488 | 533 | 18705 | 13•8 |
Islington | 3091 | 38645 | 830 | 687 | 40162 | 12•5 |
Fulham | 1703 | 18534 | 199 | 634 | 19367 | 11•3 |
Battersea | 2160 | 23462 | 267 | 403 | 24132 | 11•2 |
Bermondsey | 1499 | 15817 | 473 | 290 | 16580 | 11•1 |
Lambeth | 4080 | 41511 | 881 | 944 | 43336 | 10•6 |
Deptford | 1562 | 15823 | 229 | 195 | 16247 | 10•4 |
St. Marylebone | 1472 | 13536 | 762 | 702 | 15000 | 10•2 |
Poplar | 2327 | 22613 | 379 | 288 | 23280 | 10•0 |
Kensington | 2291 | 22131 | 709 | 1141 | 22981 | 10•0 |
Hackney | 3288 | 30634 | 524 | 479 | 31637 | 9•6 |
St. Pancras | 2694 | 23715 | 1009 | 541 | 25265 | 9•4 |
Stoke Newington | 863 | 84 | 150 | 7951 | 9•2 | |
City of Westminster | 2502 | 18366 | 2427 | 1036 | 21829 | 8•7 |
Camberwell | 4480 | 36671 | 554 | 754 | 37979 | 8•5 |
Hammersmith | 2286 | 15198 | 355 | 286 | 15839 | 6•9 |
Hampstead | 2265 | 11294 | 295 | 490 | 12079 | 5•3 |
Wandsworth | 9129 | 37764 | 516 | 1732 | 40012 | 4•3 |
Greenwich | 3851 | 14240 | 169 | 266 | 14675 | 3•8 |
Lewisham | 7014 | 22750 | 380 | 1217 | 24347 | 3•4 |
Woolwich | 8276 | 18086 | 176 | 234 | 18496 | 2•2 |
This table has been constructed from the Census Report, 1901.