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Explanation.—From the above table it will be seen that of a total
of 25,040 families or separate occupiers enumerated in the Metropolitan
Borough of Deptford, 24,974 were private families, of which 1,869
were enumerated in tenements of one room, 3,354 in tenements of two
rooms, and so on.
The 1,869 families enumerated in one-roomed tenements included
829 consisting of one person each, 601 of two persons each, 259 of
three persons each, and so on, and contained an aggregate population
of 3,627.
Again, in 1,477 of the 1,869 families in one-roomed tenements,
there were no children under 10 years of age, in 247 there was one
child, in 104 there were two children, and so on.
The 247 families with one child under 10 included 31 of two
persons of all ages, 177 of three persons, 28 of four persons, etc., etc.
The lower portion of the table gives details with regard to
children for those of the larger tenements only which contained more
than two persons per room. It shows that there were in Deptford 67
five-roomed tenements so occupied, 43 containing 11 persons each, 18
with 12 persons and so on. Of the 43 with 11 persons each, one contained
no children under 10 years of age, 3 had one child, and 5, 14,
12, 6 and 2 had 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 children respectively, making 145
children in all.
A "dwelling" or "tenement" was defined in the instructions to
Census Enumerators as "a place in which any person entitled to receive
a schedule usually lives," and the persons entitled to receive a schedule
and therefore for census purposes regarded as heads of families, were
stated to be: (a) Every head of a family occupying the whole or part
of a house or flat. (b) Every separate lodger occupying a room or
rooms in a house or flat (where two or more lodgers shared a room or
rooms they were treated for census purposes as a single family).
(c) Every resident caretaker of a house to be let, of a shop or other
business premises, or of a public building. (d) Every outdoor servant
(with or without family) occupying separately any building or rooms in
a building, such as a lodge, gardener's cottage, rooms over coach-house
or stable, etc., which is detached from the house to which it belongs or
has no internal communication therewith. (e) Every resident proprietor,
manager or head of a hotel, club, business establishment, school, etc.
(f) The chief resident officer of every institution, (g) The master or
person in charge of every boat, barge, or other vessel.