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Battersea 1925
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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and of the surveys of large areas of working-class houses carried
out since the original survey of the Borough appear to indicate that
this estimate of the housing needs of Battersea was, if anything,
an under-estimate, and that the requirements would be more closely
met by a considerable increase in this figure. It is probable that
at least 700 or 800 dwellings are needed to remedy the overcrowding
in Battersea, and that until provision is made in this direction this
evil, which is so fertile a source of unsatisfactory social and insanitary
conditions, will continue.
G. QUIN LENNANE,
28th April, 1923. Medical Officer of Health.
ADDENDUM.
Appended will be found tables showing details extracted from
the census report and from the result obtained from the records of
inspection Of houses in the Borough during 1922-23.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BATTERSEA.
CENSUS, 1921.
Details as to Number of Families, Population of Private
Families, Number of Separate Dwellings and Rooms occupied
in each Ward.
| Ward. | Areain Acres. | No. of Private Families. | Population of Private Families. | Separate Dwellings occupied. | Rooms occupied. | Average Roomsper Person. | Average Personsper Room. | Average PersonsperAcre. | Average Personsper Family. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 407 | 6,484 | 27,194 | 4,098 | 21,143 | .78 | 1.29 | 67 | 4.2 |
| 2 | 316 | 4,619 | 18,194 | 2,896 | 15,993 | .88 | 1.14 | 58 | 3.9 |
| 3 | 182 | 5,093 | 18,916 | 3,190 | 17,029 | .90 | 1.11 | 105 | 3.7 |
| 4 | 140 | 4,023 | 15,130 | 2,742 | 14,600 | .97 | 1.04 | 110 | 3.8 |
| 5 | 171 | 4,566 | 17,854 | 2,771 | 14,549 | .82 | 1.23 | 108 | 3.9 |
| 6 | 126 | 4,850 | 20,545 | 2,889 | 14,981 | .73 | 1.37 | 164 | 4.2 |
| 7 | 117 | 1,972 | 7,524 | 1,211 | 8,288 | 1.10 | .91 | 73 | 3.8 |
| 8 | 205 | 5,641 | 18,851 | 3,349 | 22,543 | 1.20 | .84 | 93 | 3.3 |
| 9 | 499 | 5,740 | 19,962 | 4,045 | 28,197 | 1.41 | .71 | 42 | 3.5 |
| Borough | 2,163 | 42,988 | 164,170 | 27,191 | 157,323 | .96 | 1.04 | 78 | 3.82 |
| County of London | 74,850 | 1,120,897 | 4,243,838 | 701,035 | 4,057,271 | .96 | 1.04 | 60 | 3.79 |