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Broadly speaking, the result of the survey showed that the
degree of overcrowding is generally lower than was anticipated,
but, naturally, a graph for the whole borough can give no indication
of those parts of the area where the percentage of overcrowding
is either high or low. A similar graph on Form C, therefore, was
prepared for each Ward, for the Borough Council estates, for the
County Council estates, and for the Corporation of London estate.
The tabulated results are :—
Number of Total Percentage
Ward families number of of
overcrowded families overcrowded
Marsh 326 3,368 9.6
Bishops 940 5,283 17.7
Princes 642 6,197 10.3
Oval 373 6,218 5.9
Vassall 148 4,886 3.0
Vauxhall 443 7,550 5.8
Angell 275 8,218 3.3
Stockwell 209 8,868 2.3
Town Hall Ill 3,862 2.8
Heme Hill 117 4,076 2.8
Tulse Hill 156 9,726 1.6
Knight's Hill 141 8,672 1.6
Borough Council estates 64 829 7.7
County Council estates 142 1,292 10.9
City of London estate 2 48 4.0
The survey does not include every house in the Borough. Only
those were the subject of inquiry which are occupied, or are of a
type suitable for occupation, by that undefined portion of the
population referred to in the Housing Acts as the " working classes,"
and excluded the City of London and Metropolitan Police estates,
and certain Crown properties. It will be realised that great care
was needed in the differentiation between those dwellings which
should and those which should not be surveyed.
Surprise may be expressed at the degree of overcrowding in the
municipal estates, but it is due in part to the size of the rooms
being a few square feet less than the standard room of 110 square
feet, the families falling into category (c) rather than (a). Apart
from municipal estates, the bulk of the overcrowding as was
expected, is found in dwellings of one, two and three rooms and is
greatest in the two-roomed dwellings, the percentages of the total
number overcrowded being 12.6 per cent, one room, 43.4 per cent,
two rooms, 29.9 per cent, three rooms, approximately 85.9 per
cent, of the total.
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