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Section t .
Natural and Social Conditions of the Borough.
Area of Borough . . 2265 acres (including 12 acres covered by water).
Population at Census, 1921 86,153
Population estimated to middle of 1926 87,530
Number of inhabited houses, Census 1921 12,557
Number of families or separate occupiers, ditto 21,520
Rateable Value, 6th April, 1926 £1,318,196
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,898 18s. Od.
Social conditions, including the chief occupations of the inhabitants,
and the influence of any particular occupation on public health.
Hampstead is mainly a residential district, and is less densely
populated than the Administrative County as a whole, the number
of persons per acre being 38 and 60 respectively at the Census of
1921. The density, however, varies very much throughout the
Borough, being very sparse in some places and very crowded in
others. In the two poorer districts, which flank Hampstead east and
west, the density is high. Thus the Kilburn Ward had 84 to the acre
at the last Census, and in a certain portion of this Ward known as
the Netherwood Street Area, comprising Nctherwood, Kelson and
Linstead Streets and Palmerston Road, the density at a Census taken
in 1919 was found to be no less than 238 persons to the acre.
Owing to its residential character there are no occupations peculiar
to the Borough. The greatest number of persons engaged in one occupation
are those classified as domestic servants; these numbered
11,264 at the last Census.
The percentage of private families living in 1 room at the last
Census was 9.4, in 2 rooms 13.2, in 3 rooms 19.5, in 4 rooms 13.7, in
5 rooms 8.5, in 6-7 rooms 12,0, in 8-9 rooms 8.5, and in 10 rooms and
over 152.