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HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

The figure 38,118 used in the above Table to represent separately occupied tenements is the
figure which represents in the Census returns the number of families or households separately
occupying their own homes. Each set of one or more rooms occupied by a separate family in a
house let in lodgings has accordingly been shown in the first column of the table as a separate
dwelling or tenement. In the Rate Collectors' returns a house let in lodgings and occupied by
members of more than one family is reckoned as a single house, and computed on this basis the
inhabited houses in the Borough in 1913 numbered 27,654. In both returns a self-contained
tenement or flat as distinct from a set of rooms in a lodging house has been reckoned separately as
an inhabited house or dwelling. The second column of the Table shows the number of institutions
and large private establishments used as dwellings in the Borough, and the third column gives the
number of uninhabited dwellings. It is not possible to estimate how many of the total number of
uninhabited dwellings a.re available for the working classes, but from inquiries which have been
made the number of vacant and available rooms in North Kensington is known, and exceeds 1,000.
Lodgings provided by the Council.—The total number of tenements provided by the
Council for the working classes under the Housing Acts is shown in the following Table:—

The above tenements provided by the Council are all within the Borough. At the end of the
year 114 were let and 6 were empty.