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TENEMENTS.
No definition of the word is given, but it appears to mean
the home of a separate family or separate occupier.
The total number amounted to 27,701 of which 19,140
contained five rooms and over. The balance, 8,561, were
tenements or houses of less than five rooms.
The proportion of families or separate occupiers in homes
containing less than five rooms to total families and the percentage
of the population housed in one roomed homes forms
a valuable index of the social condition, wealth or poverty of a
community. The same factors are useful in judging under what
conditions the working classes are housed and the need for
improvement, if any, in a district.
The Borough of Lewisham compared with other
London Boroughs stands the highest in this respect. Out of
every hundred families or separate occupiers only 30.9 occupy
homes of less than five rooms, the lowest proportion of any
London Borough. Hampstead 42.2, is next in order, Wandsworth,
42.3, Stoke Newington, 49.1, Kensington, 55.0, Greenwich
55.2 &c. (Vide Table 4.)
Of the 8,561 homes or tenements of less than five
rooms there were :—
970 homes of one room containing 1,488 persons, or
1.16 per cent. of population.
1,720 homes of two rooms containing 4,552 persons, or
3.59 per cent. of population.
2,490 homes of three rooms containing 8,550 persons,
or 6.7 per cent. of population.
3,381 homes of four rooms containing 14,308 persons,
or 11. 22 per cent. of population.