[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of] page 62

Paddington 1906

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62
HOUSING.
for the whole of the houses on the Registers were collected in 1903, 1904, and 1906. It has
been thought that a comparison of the statistics would not only be interesting but useful.
On examining the figures for the houses at the time of registration (Table 37) it will be
found that the average number of persons of all ages per room in "all tenements of less than
5 rooms" has fallen from 2.06 in 1902 to 1.90 last year, the averages for the intermediate
years having been even lower, the lowest being recorded in 1903 and 1905 (1.84). A similar
reduction, but not in all cases equal in amount, occurred in each class of tenement. It is not
without interest to note that the proportion of children under JO years of age to the total
inhabitants has shrunk from 30.7 per cent. in 1902 to 29.1 in 1906, and was as low as 26.0
in 1903. Turning to the second half of the Fable, the "overcrowded tenements," the

Table: TABLE 37.Based on data collected on Registration.

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TABLE 37.

Based on data collected on Registration.

Tenement of rooms.	Year.	All tenements.				" Overcrowded " tenements.
		Average per room.			Children per cent. total Inhabitants.	Percentage of all overcrowded	Average per room.			Children per cent. total Inhabitants.
		P	P	10			P	p	10
		P	10	P			P	10	P
1	1902	2.14	1.68	0.46	21.6	30.7	3.58	2.13	1.45	40.4
	1903	1.99	1.66	0.33	16.7	25.3	3.38	2.16	1.22	36.0
	1904	2.04	1.63	0.41	20.4	39.8	3.31	2.05	1.26	38.1
	1905	1.94	1.59	0.35	18.0	26.1	3.35	2.09	1.26	37.6
	1906	2.00	1.67	0.33	16.4	29.6	3.25	2.19	1.06	32.6
2	1902	2.06	1.35	0.71	34.3	39.3	2.94	1.59	1.35	45.9
	1903	1.67	1.10	0.57	31.4	26.4	2.85	1.52	1.33	46.7
	1904	1.87	1.26	0.61	32.7	28.1	2.88	1.50	1.38	47.9
	1905	1.89	1.28	0.61	32.4	32.4	2.78	1.52	1.26	45.3
	1906	1.95	1.22	0.73	37.5	37.7	2.76	1.38	1.38	50.0
3	1902	1.92	1.22	0.70	36.4	45.9	2.53	1.43	1.10	43.8
	1903	1.52	1.14	0.38	25.1	12.5	2.33	1.75	0.58	25.0
	1904	1.41	0.97	0.44	31.3	14.8	2.66	1.33	1.33	50.0
	1905	1.54	1.02	0.52	33.2	16.1	2.39	1.26	1.13	47.2
	1906	1.35	0.95	0.40	29.6	5.0	2.66	2.33	0.33	12.5
4	1902	1.28	0.87	0.41	32.2	16.6	2.5	1.5	1.0	40.0
	1903	0.91	0.83	0.08	9.0	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •
	1904	1.44	1.17	0.27	18.9	• • •	• • •	• • #	• • •	• • •
	1905	0.99	0.87	0.12	12.5	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •
	1906	• • •	• • • J	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •
All tenements of less than 5	1902	2.06	1.43	0.63	30.7	35.6	3.04	1.70	1.34	44.1
	1903	1.84	1.36	0.48	26.0	25.2	3.00	1.73	1.27	42.2
	1904	1.85	1.31	0.54	29.1	27.9	2.91	1.57	1.34	45.2
	1905	1.84	1 .34	0.50	27.3	27.6	2.93	1.68	1.25	42.6
	1906	1.90	1.35	0.55	29.1	31.7	2.92	1.67	1.25	42.9

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No. of houses registered :-1902, 198; 1903, 265; 1904, 185; 1905, 140; 1906, 140.
P—Persons of all ages. (P/10) Persons aged 10 years and upwards (10/P) Persons under 10 years of age.
proportion of all such tenements to all tenements has decreased from 35.6 per cent. in the first
year to 31.7 in the last, the lowest proportion (25.2 per cent.) having been noted in 1903.
The average number of persons per room has decreased from 3.04 to 2.92. In considering
this latter point, attention should be given to the differences in the percentage of children

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Table: TABLE 37.Based on data collected on Registration.

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