Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1922
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CENSUS STATISTICS, 1921.
Certain further statistics arising out of the
Census taken in 1921 have now been published, and
a few of the more interesting tables are given below.
The present distribution of the population among
the four wards of the Borough, and in separate
families and dwellings, is shown in the following
tables :—
Table I.
WARDS | TOTAL POPULATION | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Area in Statute Acres | 1911 | 1921 | ||||
Persons | Persons | Males | Females | Persons per Acre | ||
760 | 128,183 | 117,238 | 56,766 | 60,472 | 154 | |
East | 356 | 42,622 | 40,742 | 20,014 | 20,728 | 114 |
North | 115 | 21,344 | 19,804 | 9,490 | 10,314 | 172 |
South | 158 | 34,479 | 31,307 | 15,027 | 16,280 | 198 |
West | 131 | 29,738 | 25,385 | 12,235 | 13,150 | 194 |
Table II.
WARDS | PRIVATE FAMILIES AND DWELLINGS. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Private Families | Population in Private Families | Structurally Separate Dwellings occupied | Rooms occupied | Rooms per Person | |
27,596 | 114,203 | 18,281 | 78,045 | 0.68 | |
East | 9,579 | 38,090 | 5,683 | 28,166 | 0.74 |
North | 4,809 | 19,681 | 3,089 | 13,431 | 0.68 |
South | 7,314 | 31,207 | 5,319 | 20,353 | 0.65 |
West | 5,894 | 25,225 | 4,190 | 16,095 | 0.64 |