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Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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The following table gives particulars of the inspection of 969
houses during 1922-23:—

Table: Information obtained from House Inspection during 1922 and 1923.

Information obtained from House Inspection during 1922 and 1923.

Ward.No. of Houses Inspected.No. of Families.No. of Rooms.Occupants.Average Number of
Adults.Children.Persons per Room.Rooms per per Person.
11512428427083591.2779
23064411,2391,2876721.58.63
3621063063141181.41.71
434692362041341.43.70
51812588456893361.21.82
61191425214712341.35.74
760641081411721.3.77
824241086716.771.30
9324820213021.751.34
—9691,3944,5394,0112,0621.34.74

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* These figures relate to a street partly in Ward 6.

Table: The following table gives particulars of the inspection of 969 house during 1992-23:-

The following table gives particulars of the inspection of 969 house during 1992-23:-

Ward.Houses Inspected (1922-3).Occupied Separate Dwellings in Ward.Estimation based on House-to-house Inspection of the number of Houses in which the average Number of Rooms per person in each Ward is
Less than .5..5 to . 66..66 to 1.1 or more.
11514,0981908961,5471,465
(4.6)(21.9)(37.7)(35.8)
23062,896634634814814
(21.9)(21.9)(28.1)(28.1)
3623,1902069261,286772
(6.5)(29.0)(40.3)(24.2)
4342,742403726968645
(14.6)(26.6)(35.3)(23.5)
51812,7711225069341,209
(4.4)(18.2)(33.7)(43.7)
61192,8892436071,068971
(8.4)(21.0)(37.0)(33.6)
7601,21181242484404
(6.7)(20.0)(40.0)(33.3)
8243,349--2793,070
(8.3)(91.7)
.9324,045-1267593,160
(3.1)(18.7)(78.2)
Total96927,1911,8794,6638,13912,510
(6.91)(17.15)(29-93)(46-01)

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Note.-—The figures in brackets are tne percentages calculated on the number of houses inspected
in the respective Wards.
It will be noted in the above table details are given as to the
numbers and percentages of inspected houses, but containing more
extended particulars of the accommodation for each Ward than
that in the preceding table.
Considerable range of variation was found to exist, as might
be expected, in the various Wards.
The percentages so obtained were applied to the total number
of occupied dwellings in each Ward (extracted from the census
returns) on the assumption that the distribution of accommodation
in the inspected houses would be found to approximate to that