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Paddington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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POPULATION.
POPULATION.
TABLE 5.
Housing—Tenements.
Census, 1911.
| London. | Padding-ton. | Kensington. | West-minster. | St. Maryle-bone. | Hamp-stead. | Willes-den. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901— | |||||||
| Enumerated Population | 4,536,267 | 143,976 | 176,628 | 183,011 | 133,301 | 81,942 | 114,811 |
| Total Number of "Families" | 1,019,588 | 33,661 | 38,349 | 41,344 | 31,623 | 16,998 | 25,657 |
| 1911— | . | ||||||
| Enumerated Population | 4,521,685 | 142,551 | 172,317 | 160,261 | 118,160 | 85,495 | 154,214 |
| Total Number of "Families" | 1,033,861 | 33,925 | 38,387 | 35,984 | 28,509 | 18,625 | 35,478 |
| "Private Families" | 1,023,951 | 33,048 | 37,475 | 34,741 | 27,876 | 18,130 | 35.365 |
| Percentage of All Families | 99.04 | 97.41 | 97.62 | 96.54 | 97.78 | 97.33 | 99.68 |
| Population in "Private Families" | 4,253,123 | 129,041 | 156,353 | 128,818 | 102,350 | 78,469 | 152.111 |
| Percentage of Total Population | 9406 | 90.52 | 90.73 | 80.38 | 86.62 | 91.78 | 98.63 |
| Tenements with Averages exceeding Two Persons per room— | |||||||
| Total Number | 121,638 | 3,535 | 4,501 | 2,893 | 3,731 | 881 | 3,050 |
| Population therein : All ages | 758,786 | 20,885 | 26,681 | 16,596 | 21,178 | 5,547 | 21,175 |
| Under 10 years | 289,802 | 8,157 | 10,262 | 5,987 | 7,592 | 2,214 | 8,363 |
| Average numberof Occupants per Tenement | 6.22 | 5.91 | 5.92 | 5.73 | 5.67 | 6.29 | 6.94 |
| Percentage of "Private Families "Population in such Tenements | 17.8 | 16.2 | 17.1 | 12.9 | 20.7 | 71 | 13.9 |
The proportions. of individuals included in "private families" in the Wards are given in
Table 6, and ranged from 63.72 per cent. in Lancaster Gate, West, Ward to 99.44 in Harrow
Road. The proportions were under 90 per cent. in three other Wards, viz., Westbourne (83.60),
Lancaster Gate, East (81.26), and Hyde Park (88.46). The explanation for the low proportions
in Westbourne and Lancaster Gate, West, Wards is probably to be found in the presence of
commercial houses in those Wards, but in the case of Lancaster Gate, West, Ward—as also in
Lancaster Gate, East—the numbers of boarding houses and private hotels have to be taken
into consideration. No suggestion can be offered at the present time for the relatively low
proportion recorded in Hyde Park Ward.
Table 6 also gives a "survey" of the accommodation enjoyed by "private families." No
similar information has hitherto been available. The highest proportions of population living in
homes of less than five rooms were recorded in Harrow Road (82.63 per cent.) and Church
Wards (76.65), but there are great differences in the proportions of the individual classes of
tenements included in that group—the distribution in Church Ward being the worse, owing to
the high proportions of one and two room tenements. At the other extreme striking variations
are to be noted in the proportions of tenements of "ten or more rooms," the percentages
ranging from 74 98 in Lancaster Gate, East, Ward, to 022 in Queen.s Park.
In Table 7 the actual number of "private families" living in each Ward will be found,
together with the proportions of such families living in tenements of each class. The proportion
of tenements of less than five rooms to all tenements occupied by "private families"
ranged from 31.61 in Lancaster Gate, West, Ward to 88.14 in Harrow Road. The excessive
preponderance of tenements of one and two rooms in Church Ward is clearly brought out. The
.The actual numbers on which the proportions given in Tables 6 and 7 are based will be published, together
with other data, in a later report.