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Battersea 1925

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

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existing in the total houses in their respective Wards, and with a
view to ascertaining whether this assumption could be sustained,
both as regards the individual Wards and the Borough. The results
showed that the percentages of the different standards of accommodation,
although varying within a relatively wide range in individual
Wards, agreed fairly closely with those obtaining throughout the
Borough calculated from the number of families in the census returns
found to be living under similar conditions.

Table: The next table gives similar details as to families in relation to accommodation:-

The next table gives similar details as to families in relation to accommodation:-

Ward.Total No. of Families.No. of Familiesin House inspected.Estimated Number of Private Families in each Ward (based on house-to house Inspection) having accommodation per person.Average No.of person per family.
Less than 5 rooms..5 to .66 rooms..66 to1.0 rooms.1.0 or more.In theinspected Houses.In the whole Ward.
16,4842425621,7151,4742,7334.44.2
(8.7)(26.4)(22.7)(42.2)
24,6194411,0051,0799011,6344.43.9
(21.8)(23.3)(19.5)(35.4)
35,0931064801,3451,2012,0674.13.7
(9.4)(26.4)(26.6)(40.6)
44,023694089911,0501,5744.93.8
(10.1)()24.7(26.1)(39.1)
54,5662582658141,1152,3724.03.9
(5.8)(17.8)(24.4)(52.0)
64,8501426497521,6051,8445.04.2
(13.4)(15.5)(33.1)(38.0)
71,972641544007097094.93.8
(7.8)(20.4)(35.9)(35.9)
85,64124--4705,1713.53.3
(8.3)(91.7)
95,74048-3595984,7833.13.5
(6.2)(10.5)(83.3)
Borough Percentage of total families42,9881,3943,5237,4559,12322,8874.363.82
(8.19)(17.34)(21.22)(53.25)

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Note.—The figures in brackets are tne percentages calculated on the number of families living
in the houses inspected in the respective Wards.
In the above table details are shown of the percentages of the
families living in the inspected houses in similar conditions as those
recorded in the previous table with regard to room accommodation.
These percentages were similarly applied to the total families in
each of the Wards. The results showed a relatively close correspondence
with the totals for the Borough as shown in the next
table calculated from Census data.

Table: The following percentages have been calculated from information extracted from Table 11 of Census Report, 1921 (Part 1).

The following percentages have been calculated from information extracted from Table 11 of Census Report, 1921 (Part 1).

Total No. ot Families in Borough.No. of Families with under . 3 rooms per person.No. of Families with .3 andundef -5 rooms per person.No. of Families with .5 and under .7 rooms per person.No. of Families with .7 and under 1 room per person.No. of Families with 1 room or more per per person.
42,9884732,1547,821 (18.19)11,918 (27.72)20,622 (47.98)
(6.11)