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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE 2. Proportions (per cent.) of total populations living in each class of home (tenement). Census, 1901.
| In Homes of rooms. | Encircling Boroughs. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOROUGH. | London. | Kensington. | Westminster | St. Marylebone. | Hampstead. | Willesden. | ||
| 1 | 0.41 | 6.72 | 6.42 | 7.65 | 12.31 | 2.22 | 2.59 | |
| 2 | 15.69 | 15.46 | 15.74 | 16.58 | 22.13 | 8.86 | 9.70 | |
| 3 | 17.32 | 16.58 | 11.44 | 13.56 | 13.32 | 10.70 | 20.82 | |
| 4 | 11.44 | 15.24 | 8.09 | 7.90 | 7.86 | 7.82 | 17.59 | |
| less than 5 | 50.86 | 54.00 | 41.69 | 45.69 | 55.62 | 29.60 | 50.70 | |
| 5 or more. | 49.14 | 46.00 | 58.31 | 54.31 | 44.38 | 70.40 | 49.30 | |
TABLE 3. Percentages of inhabitants of each class of home, and of total population of each District, "overcrowded." Census 1901.
| In Homes containing rooms. | Borough. | Registration Sub-Districts. | Ward. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary. | St. John. | North-West Paddington* | Harrow Rd. | ! Maida Vale. | Westbourne | Church. | Lancaster Gate (West) | Lancaster Gate (East) | Hyde Park. | ||||
| 1 | 40.0 | 42.6 | 29.2 | 25.7 | 26.1 | 33.0 | 33.5 | 53.7 | 20.2 | 24.4 | |||
| 41.6 | 44.1 | 31.3 | 27.9 | 27.0 | 40.0 | 34.9 | 57.2 | 21.1 | 23.5 | 34.3 | |||
| 3 | 18.8 | 18.9 | 17.8 | 19.2 | 36.2 | 21.9 | 17.7 | 15.5 | |||||
| 4 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 9.1 | 12.7 | 10.8 | 15.4 | 12.3 | 2.2 | 10.6 | ||||
| less than 5 | 26.67 | 28.96 | 19.54 | 17.68 | 15.20 | 28.90 | 24.55 | 47.28 | 17.01 | 13.29 | |||
| Percentage of total population overcrowded. | 13.56 | 17.76 | 4.18 | 9.14 | 11.47 | 12.55 | 13.36 | 32.76 | 2.58 | 2.15 | 5.22 | ||
* Queen's Park Ward is co-terminous with this Sub-District.