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Paddington 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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POPULATION.
increase (17.7 per cent.) took place in tenements of four rooms, the increase in number of three.
room tenements being 10.5, and of one.room tenements, 2 4. Tenements of two rooms decreased
by a trifle under 1 (0.8) per cent.
TABLE 8. Housing—Tenements. Numbers Enumerated and Proportions.
| Numbers of Tenements of | Percentages of all Tenements | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Sizes | Less than Five Rooms | One Room | Two Rooms | Three Rooms | Four Rooms | Less than Five Rooms | One Room | Two , Rooms | Three Rooms | Four Rooms | |||
| Borough | 1901 | 33,661 | 21,815 | 5.035 | 6,668 | 6,548 | 3,564 | 64.8 | 14.9 | 19.8 | 19.4 | 10.5 | |
| 1911 | 33,925 | 23,224 | 5,159 | 6,620 | 7,247 | 4,198 | 68.4 | 15.2 | 19.5 | 213 | 12.3 | ||
| Queen.s Park | 1901 | 4,087 | 2,563 | 480 | 676 | 639 | 768 | 62.7 | 11.7 | 16.5 | 15.6 | 18.8 | |
| 1911 | 3,811 | 2,592 | 419 | 527 | 738 | 908 | 68.0 | 110 | 13.8 | 19.4 | 23.8 | ||
| Harrow Road | 1901 | 7,441 | 6,179 | 790 | 1,362 | 3,042 | 985 | 63.0 | 10.6 | 18.3 | 40.9 | 13.2 | |
| 1911 | 7,520 | 6,614 | 941 | 1,464 | 3,195 | 1,014 | 87.9 | 12.5 | 195 | 42.5 | 13.5 | ||
| Maida Vale | 1901 | 4,313 | 2,368 | 506 | 814 | 689 | 359 | 54.9 | 11.7 | 18.9 | 16.0 | 8.3 | |
| 1911 | 5,450 | 3,037 | 617 | 885 | 811 | 724 | 55.7 | 11.3 | 16.2 | 14.9 | 13.3 | ||
| Westbourne | 1901 | 5,750 | 3,607 | 952 | 1,201 | 962 | 492 | 62.7 | 16.5 | 20.9 | 16.7 | 8.5 | |
| 1911 | 5,604 | 3,974 | 1,046 | 1,306 | 1,049 | 573 | 70.9 | 18.7 | 23.3 | 18.7 | 10.2 | ||
| Church | 1901 | 6,528 | 5,205 | 1,870 | 2,140 | 732 | 463 | 79.7 | 28.6 | 32.8 | 11.2 | 7.1 | |
| 1911 | 6,324 | 5,133 | 1,822 | 1,906 | 910 | 495 | 81.2 | 28.8 | 30.1 | 14.4 | 7.8 | ||
| Lancaster Gate, West | 1901 | 1,442 | 384 | 68 | 85 | 87 | 144 | 26.6 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 10.0 | |
| 1911 | 1,455 | 447 | 61 | 111 | 116 | 159 | 30.7 | 4.2 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 10.9 | ||
| Lancaster Gate, East | 1901 | 1,333 | 390 | 54 | 66 | 155 | 115 | 29.2 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 11.6 | 8.6 | |
| 1911 | 1,219 | 360 | 45 | 69 | 143 | 103 | 29.5 | 3.7 | 5.7 | 11.7 | 8.4 | ||
| Hyde Park | 1901 | 2,767 | 1,119 | 315 | 324 | 242 | 238 | 40.4 | 11.4 | 11.7 | 8.7 | 8.6 | |
| 1911 | 2,542 | 1,067 | 208 | 352 | 285 | 222 | 42.0 | 8.2 | 13.9 | 11.2 | 8.7 | ||
Table 8 also shows the ratios (per cent.) of each class of tenement to all enumerated
tenements, from which it appears that the proportion of tenements of less than five rooms
increased during the ten years by nearly 6 per cent., the major part of such increase taking place
in the larger tenements (three and four rooms). The greatest increase in the proportion of
tenements of less than five rooms took place in Harrow Road Ward, where it amounted to
nearly 17 per cent., and the least (0.3 per cent.) in Hyde Park. The absolute changes in the
percentage proportions of each tenement in each Ward are shown in Table 9, which does not
appear to require any explanation. It may be permitted, however, to observe that it is much to
be desired that the proportions of tenements of one and two rooms should decrease and those of
the larger increase. Overcrowding is rare except in tenements of one or two rooms.
In Table 10 the percentage proportions of the total population enumerated in the Borough
(and in each Ward) living in each class of tenement of less than five rooms, as observed in 1901
and 1911, will be found. There appears to have been an increase in the proportion living in all
tenements of less than five rooms, of 4.6 per cent. in the Borough, the proportion being greater
in 1911 than in 1901 in all the five northern Wards. The maximum increase occurred in Harrow
Road Ward, and the minimum (2.0) in Church. A decrease of 1.4 per cent. is recorded in
Lancaster Gate, East. In the whole Borough the changes in the proportions living in one and
two rooms are insignificant, the increase in the total being entirely due to changes in the