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Islington 1906
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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TABLE 5.
Showing the number of Persons per centum of the Population in Family Groups containing from one to twelve persons living in One-room to Four-room Tenements.
| Number of Persons occupying each Tenement. | One-Roomed Tenements. | Two-Roomed Tenements. | Three-Roomed Tenements. | Four-Roomed Tenements. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891. | 1901. | 1891. | 1901. | 1891. | 1901. | 1891. | 1901. | |
| 1 person | 1.43 | 1.51 | 0.41 | 0.36 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| 2 persons | 2.66 | 2.73 | 2.57 | 3.04 | 1.46 | 1.78 | 0.52 | 0.58 |
| 3 „ | 2.01 | 1.80 | 3.43 | 4.20 | 2.26 | 3.02 | 1.08 | 1.41 |
| 4 „ | 1.50 | 1.10 | 3.65 | 4.19 | 2.55 | 1.63 | 2.11 | |
| 0.78 | 0.41 | 3.35 | 3.29 | 2.35 | 2.81 | 2.01 | 2.48 | |
| 6 „ | 0.30 | 0.13 | 2.45 | 2.24 | 2.22 | 2.36 | 2.10 | 2.34 |
| 0.12 | 0.05 | 1.65 | 1.30 | 1.89 | 1.82 | 1.93 | 1.85 | |
| 8 „ | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.95 | 0.62 | 1.23 | 1.10 | 1.44 | |
| 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.75 | 0.55 | 0.91 | ||
| 10 „ | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.64 | 0.52 |
| 11 „ | 0.00 | — | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.27 |
| 12 „ | - | - | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.15 |
| 8.83 | 7.76 | 19.00 | 19.55 | 15.28 | 17.21 | 12.98 | 14.10 | |
In this Table 0.00 means that the numbers were not sufficient to read
0.01 (that is, the one hundredth of one) per cent."
It is obvious to any persons carefully, and with unprejudiced mind, studying
these figures that Islington demands very careful watching to prevent its
houses becoming greatly overcrowded. Its days for building new houses have
all but passed away, for there is no building ground, or very little, available,
and, therefore, as people, who for the most part are artizans, come into the
borough to reside, they are domiciled in houses that at one time were let to
single families. Happily, the action of the Sanitary Staff has up to now
greatly retarded overcrowding, to the annoyance and possibly the pecuniary
loss of some owners, who aver that they cannot make the properties pay unless
more people are allowed to live in them. However this may be, it must be
impressed on those who govern this great borough, that it will be an evil day
for it when there is the slightest relaxation of the stringent measures that are
now and have been for a long time adopted here, for it would quickly become a
large slum area, and a menace to the metropolis.
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