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These figures demonstrate that the increase in the number of houses has
never kept pace with the increase of the population, the result being that
overcrowded conditions have prevailed to a greater or less extent in various
parts of the borough.
Now with respect to the number of separate families living in the
borough, I find that in 1891 there were 72,652 families distributed among
37,875 houses, which give an average of 1'91 (nearly 2) families per house,
and that they had increased in 1901 to 79,129 families, living in 38,645
houses, or an average of 2.04 families per house. Thus there was an increase
of 0.13 family per house. This is not a very large increment, but when it is
recollected that there are many thousands of houses occupied by single
families, it represents much more than it appears to do by a mere recital of
the fact, for the increase occurs only in tenement houses. This is more
apparent when the different sub-districts are examined separately. It is not,
however, possible to contrast the figures calculated from the last census
returns with figures based on the 1891 census, because the latter unfortunately
did not give the necessary information for the sub-districts. I have, however,
made calculations on the figures obtained in the census of 1901, and I find
that—
In Upper Holloway, 22,357 families live in 12,149 houses, or
1.84 families per house.
In Lower Holloway, 9,243 families live in 4,118 houses, or
2.24 families per house.
In Barnsbury, 13,781 families live in 5,558 houses, or
2.48 families per house.
In Islington, South East, 18,847 families live in 8,034 houses, or
2.34 families per house.
In Highbury, 14,901 families live in 8,786 houses, or
1.70 families per house.
It is, therefore, found that the houses in Lower Holloway, in Barnsbury,
and Islington South East, contain more families per house than the average
which obtained throughout the Borough, and that those in Upper Holloway
and Highbury contain fewer families.
These facts do not, however, enable me to come closely in touch with
the small areas of the Borough containing comparatively few people, that is to