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Private households in relation to size, rooms occupied and density of
occupation
Of the 72,100 total households which comprised 223,761 total
persons with an average of 0.77 persons per room, 2,009 households
(3,128 persons) occupied dwellings of one room only. The most
frequent number of rooms occupied were 3, 4 and 5 (occupied by about
18,000 households in each case). At the other end of the scale 849
households occupied dwellings of 8 or 9 rooms and 193 households
occupied dwellings of 10 or more rooms.
With regard to households in shared dwellings (included in the
previous paragraph) there were 25,606 such households in all comprising
65,213 persons and occupying 78,028 rooms, giving an average number
of persons per room of 0.84. Of these households 1,812 (comprising
2,858 persons) shared one-room households. The most frequent setup
(almost twice as frequent as any other) was the sharing of three-roomed
households, and this was done by 10,623 households in all, comprising
26,967 persons. At the other end of the scale 49 households,
comprising 211 persons, shared dwellings of 8 or 9 rooms, and 8
households, comprising 35 persons, shared dwellings of 10 or more
rooms.
Private households by density of occupation (persons per room)
Of the 72,100 households, 82.6 percent had a density of one
person per room or less, this comparing with a percentage of 79.2 for
the whole County. 12.5 percent had between 1 and 1½ persons per room,
4.1 percent between 1½ and 2, 0.7 percent between 2 and 3 and 0.1
percent (82 households in all, comprising 404 persons) had over
3 persons per room. The percentage of persons living at more than
2 per room was 1.40 in Lewisham compared with 2.55 in the whole
County (in the 1931 Census the percentage was 4.09 for Lewisham
and 13.13 for the County).
Private households according to possession of certain household arrangements
Of the 72,100 households, 44 were entirely without a piped water
supply and 15,265 shared a piped water supply with another household.
563 were entirely without a cooking stove and 4,451 shared a cooking
stove with another household. 1,547 were entirely without a kitchen
sink, and 5,676 shared a kitchen sink with another household. 52 were
entirely without a water closet and 14,807 shared a water closet with
another household. 13,245 were entirely without a fixed bath and
14,966 shared a fixed bath with another household. Grouping these 5
facilities together (piped water, cooking stove, kitchen sink, water
closet and fixed bath), 40,635 households had exclusive possession of
all 5 of these facilities, being equivalent to 56 percent of all households
(compared with 33 percent for the whole County) ; 90 percent of all
Lewisham households had exclusive use of a stove and a sink (compared
with 83 percent for the whole County). Numerous subdivisions of these
figures according to the number of persons in the household and the
number of households sharing dwellings, are given in the census.