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are both factors which have been repeatedly shown to be associated
with the upper social classes. A further finding similarly related
is the fact that 34 per cent, of persons aged 15-19 are still in
full-time attendance at educational establishments. This is the
highest figure for any Metropolitan Borough.
Housing Conditions.
The population of Hampstead is made up of 35,970 private
households, of which in 20,800 the head of the house is married.
Considering the age of the heads of all the households 11,4l8 (32
per cent.) are under 40, 14,777 (4l per cent.) are aged between 40
and 59, and 9,775 (27 per cent.) are over 60 as compared with 30
per cent., 4l per cent, and 29 per cent, respectively for London as
a whole, showing that the average age for the head of the house in
Hampstead is somewhat lower than for the County.
These private households contain 88,119 persons, i.e. 92.6 per
cent, of the population of the Borough. The remaining 7.4 per cent,
live in non-private households. 2,932 (3.1 per cent.) people live
in the larger hotels and boarding houses (with 10 or more rooms) and
646 people (0.7 per cent.) live in the smaller hotels and boarding
houses. 433 people are housed in educational establishments and
children's homes and 1,369 people were at the time of the census in
hospital or a nursing home. 201 people were in a home for the
disabled or aged, and a small miscellaneous number were in other
communal establishments. The 201 people in homes for the disabled
and aged were made up as follows: 8 persons (5 inmates and 3 staff)
were in a home for the blind, and 193 persons of whom 168 were
inmates were living in nine old persons homes. Of the 168 inmates
24 were male and 144 female. There was one person detained in a
Police Station on the night of the Census in Hampstead.
There are 179 hotels in the Borough with 10 or more rooms, made
up as follows:-
102 hotels with 10 to 14 rooms
54 " "15 to 24 "
19 " " 25 to 49 "
4 " " more than 50 rooms
and at the time of the census there were 1,978 resident guests in
these hotels, a number exceeded only by Kensington with 5,986 and
Paddington with 3,853.
The distribution of the private households and the density of
occupation by wards are shown in Table V.
It will be noticed that the Kilburn Ward is the most densely
occupied with 5.4 per cent, of persons at more than two per room.
Priory Ward is second and Adelaide Ward is third, it is interesting
to note that the density of occupation is not of the same order as
the persons per acre as shown in Table I.