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12
The census report contains a mass of interesting information
as to the vital statistics of the inhabitants of the
United Kingdom. I have extracted most of the particulars
which concern Bethnal Green and have printed them on
pages 12-23 of this report. I wish to draw special attention
to the table on pages 20 and 21 which shews the number
of rooms per tenement in the occupation of private families
in Bethnal Green; from this table it will be seen that the
number of single room tenements in the Borough was
4,856, occupied by 10,707 persons, a proportion of 8.7
of the total population of this Borough. As this may be
considered a fair test for the poverty or otherwise of the
inhabitants of a district, I have calculated percentages of
similar occupations in the adjoining Boroughs and in the
County of London, for purposes of comparison.
Borough.
Total
population,
1911.
Population in
single room
tenements,
1911.
Percentage of
population
in single room
tenements.
Bethnal Green 128,183 10,707 8.7
Poplar 162,442 7,408 4.5
Shoreditch 111,390 13,903 12.4
Stepney 279,804 23,688 8.5
London 4,521,685 265,553 5.8
The number of domestic servants employed in proportion
to the number of private families in a district is
also in some measure an index of the prosperity or otherwise
of the inhabitants. There are in Bethnal Green
27,693 private families, and the number of domestic servants
employed in these was found to be 23 males and 966
females, a proportion of about three and a half per cent.
on the total number of private families.