London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Kensington 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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Private Households by Marital Condition, Age and Sex of Head

AreaTotal HouseholdsPercentage of households with heads as follows -
MarriedNon-married under 40 years either sexNon-married males aged-Non-married females aged-
40-5960 & over40-5960 & over
London1,120,71068.55.02.93.37.612.7
Kensington60,71854.514.03.92.611.313.7
Private Households by Marital Condition, Age and Sex of Head
AreaTotal HouseholdsPercentage of households with heads as follows -
MarriedNon-married under 40 years either sexNon-married males aged-Non-married females aged-
40-5960 & over40-5960 & over
London1,120,71068.55.02.93.37.612.7
Kensington60,71854.514.03.92.611.313.7

The following table gives the private households, showing
the number of persons in the number of rooms occupied per
household

Private households related to persons and rooms occupied

Number of persons in householdNumber of households occupying the following number of rooms
123456Over 6
111,5954,1262,364843322167195
23,0765,3755,0902,4671,011614584
35242,4403,2262,166971572701
41321,1111,7081,549727472631
528333635806442309544
63122228437221168348
7-247222711489187
811127756935101
9-6843322452
Over 9-4928351250
TOTALS15,35913,55213,3678,6413,9442,4623,393

Below is shown the room density of private households.

Persons per roomHouseholdsPersons
NumberPercentageNumberPercentage
Over 32180.41,1430.8
3 and over 21,1741.95,6493.8
2 and over 1½5,4879.018,52012.4
1½ and over 15,9309.824,57016.7
1 or less47,90978.998,49366.3
TOTALS60,718100%148,375100%