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The corresponding figures for 1908 were 4,611 and 2,154, and for 1907, 5,250 and 2,376.
The notices served as a result of these inspections numbered 3,088 (2,771 in 1908), viz.:
cleansing notices, 2,355; for verminous rooms, 145 : and for defects of all descriptions, 588.*
One hundred and forty-two (142) cases were referred to the Solicitor, but only 21 summonses
were issued.
An enumeration of the occupants of registered tenements was made in connection with
the annual cleansing. The enumeration covered 4,563 tenements, comprising 7,536 rooms,
occupied by 15,195 persons, averaging 3.3 persons to a tenement, and 2.0 to a room. The
distribution of occupants according to tenement was:—
Per room.
Per
tenement
Registered
tenements.
Borough
Census, 1901.
In 2,155 tenements of one room, 4,647 persons, averages 2.1 2.1 1.8
1,882 two rooms, 7,795 „ 4.1 2.0 1.7
491 three „ 2,547 „ 5.1 1.7 1.3
31 four „ 178 „ 5.7 1.4 1.1
4 five „ 28 „ 7.0 1.4 ?
A complete analysis of the tenements of less than five rooms is given in Table 47, the
numbers of children under 10 years being shown separately.
TABLE 47.
Numbers of Registered Tenements (of less than five rooms) and Inhabitants therein.
1909.
Rooms to
Tenement.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
T
P/10
10/P
1
729
729
...
733
1430
36
420
864
396
200
400
400
54
111
159
13
29
49
4
15
13
2
7
9
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
37
37
...
284
564
4
370
932
178
451
1242
562
357
1016
769
245
717
753
94
297
361
34
122
150
9
42
39
1
4
6
3
7
7
...
28
56
...
64
162
30
77
237
71
95
318
157
106
398
238
62
238
196
34
139
133
13
64
53
5
29
21
4
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
9
...
6
23
1
4
18
2
12
60
12
1
6
1
1
5
3
2
12
6
2
10
10
T—number of Tenements containing (P/10) Persons over 10 years of age, and(10/P)Persons under 10 years of age.
The enumeration made in 1906, dealt with 4,372 tenements and 14,862 inhabitants,
and that made in 1908 with 4,902 tenements and 15,168 inhabitants. The appended statement
shows a considerable increase in the number of one-room tenements.
Rooms in tenement 1 2 3 4 5
1906 43.6 45.0 10.0 1.2 0.04
1908 44.0 45.4 9.7 0.6 0.04
1909 47.2 41.2 10.8 0.6 0.09
per cent. of all tenements
enumerated.
* The notices for verminous rooms and defects of all description are included in the totals given in the
paragraphs—Supervision.