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Applications received for licences 556
Applications refused 3
Applications held in abeyance 37
Licences in operation on 1st January, 1928 516
Income £2,450
Prosecutions under the Bermondsey Borough Council
(Street Trading) Act, 1926 8
The total amount of refuse collected from the Street Markets
during 1927 was:—
Tons
cwts.
817 van loads
1,020
15
219 barrow loads
32
17
1,053
12
OVERCROWDING.
As the question of overcrowding in the Borough was a very
serious one, and there were no reliable data as to the actual state
of affairs in 1927, the Council decided to make a Census of the
inhabited houses in the Borough, and the number of persons
occupying these. The result of this Census will be found in the
following table: —
No. of Houses
18,034
Total Number of Rooms
86,720
Ditto (Sleeping)
43,953
Ditto (Living and Sleeping)
7,677
Ditto (Living)
35,090
Number of Families
29,284
Number of Persons
111,784
Consisting of: —
Adults (10 years or over)
88,349
Children (under 10 years)
23,435
Number of Families with accommodation of
1 person or less to a room
19,887
2 persons to a room
6,634