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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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63
HOUSING.
under 10, which was 44.1 in 1902 (compared with 30.7 in all tenements), and had decreased
to 42.9 (as compared with 29.1 in all tenements in 1906). It is usual to reckon two children under 10 as equal to one adult.
If this proportion be applied to the figures for tenements of all descriptions ("all tenements of less than 5 rooms" in the Table), the averages per room
would be—
| All tenements. | "Overcrowded tenements." | |
|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 1.77 | 2.40 |
| 1903 | 1.60 | 2.36 |
| 1904 | 1.58 | 2.24 |
| 1905 | 1.59 | 2.30 |
| 1906 | 1.62 | 2.29 |
Attention may be called to the fact that in the families occupying two-room tenements
the proportion of children to the total inhabitants has increased, the increase being more
marked in the "overcrowded tenements" than in the whole group.
Passing to the figures collected at the annual cleansing (Table 38*), while a similar
improvement can be noted, indications are not wanting that the omission to enumerate the
inhabitants in 1905 was a mistake, and led to a check in the decrease in density of occupancy.†
TABLE 38.
Based on Enumerations of all Houses on the Register at each April.
| Tenements 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 | |||||
| 10 | P | 10 | P | |||||||
| 1 | 1903 | 2.22 | 1.73 | 0.49 | 22.0 | 33.3 | 3.61 | 2.18 | 1.43 | 39.5 |
| 1904 | 2.12 | 1.69 | 0.43 | 20.4 | 29.3 | 3.54 | 2.12 | 1.42 | 40.2 | |
| 1906 | 2.12 | 1.69 | 0.43 | 20.3 | 29.5 | 3.58 | 2.12 | 1.46 | 39.1 | |
| 2 | 1903 | 2.07 | 1.37 | 0.70 | 33.8 | 39.7 | 2.94 | 1.61 | 1.33 | 45.2 |
| 1904 | 2.05 | 1.35 | 0.70 | 34.2 | 38.5 | 2.92 | 1.56 | 1.36 | 46.5 | |
| 1906 | 2.08 | 1.34 | 0.74 | 35.7 | 40.3 | 2.92 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 48.2 | |
| 3 | 1903 | 1.77 | 1.20 | 0.57 | 32.3 | 26.2 | 2.59 | 1.47 | 1.12 | 43.1 |
| 1904 | 1.75 | 1.18 | 0.57 | 32.4 | 25.5 | 2.53 | 1.37 | 1.16 | 45.8 | |
| 1906 | 1.70 | 1.18 | 0.52 | 30.8 | 23.1 | 2.58 | 1.52 | 1 .06 | 41.0 | |
| 4 | 1903 | 1.37 | 1.15 | 0.22 | 16.0 | 8.0 | 2.50 | 1.75 | 0.75 | 30.0 |
| 1904 | 1.43 | 1.22 | 0.21 | 14.7 | 5.0 | 2.49 | 1.58 | 0.91 | 36.6 | |
| 1906 | 1.18 | 1.15 | 0.33 | 22.5 | 17.0 | 2.42 | 1.67 | 0.75 | 31.0 | |
| All tenements of less than 5 | 1903 | 2.33 | 1.63 | 0.70 | 30.2 | 35.5 | 3.04 | 1.72 | 1.32 | 43.4 |
| 1904 | 1.99 | 1.39 | 0.60 | 30.0 | 32.9 | 2.99 | 1.65 | 1.34 | 44.8 | |
| 1906 | 2.01 | 1.40 | 0.61 | 30.4 | 33.8 | 3.01 | 1.65 | 1.36 | 45.0 | |
Houses on the Register:—1903, 648; 1904, 901; 1906, 1,212.
P- Persons of all ages. (P/10) Persons aged 10 years and upwards. (10/P) Persons under 10 years of age.
*The figures obtained at the last annual cleansing are given in Table 36.
† Unfortunately the arrangements for the annual cleansing of this year were completed before the calculations
necessary for Tables 37 and 38 had been made. No enumeration will be made this year, but will be taken as part
of the regular routine in future years.