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POPULATION.
(c) police stations, fire brigade stations, public libraries and baths,and provided schools;
but do not include
(a) prisons;
(b) workhouses; and
(c) isolation hospitals.
"Shops" (it was intended should) include only shop premises without dwellings attached
to them.
"Theatres and Places of Amusement."—The number given does not represent the full count
of these places, as many are included under " Buildings used as Dwellings."
The following comparison of the results of the 1901 census with those of that of 1911 must
be accepted with some reserve. At the census of 1911
the inhabited dwellings were 998 fewer, and
the separate occupiers 264 more.
The averages usually calculated are those of families or separate occupiers to inhabited
dwellings and of individuals to families.
To every 1,000 inhabited dwellings
there were 1,903 families in 1901 and 2,033 in 1911—increase, 130.
there were 8,141 inhabitants in 1901 and 8,543 in 1911 „ 402.
Every 1,000 families or separate schedules comprised
4,275 persons in 1901 and 4,201 in 1911—a decrease of 74.
To the occupants of 1,000 separate flats 1,015 schedules were issued, that number of flats
being occupied by 3,154 persons. Among the inhabitants of flats 1,000 families or separate
occupations comprised 3,100 persons.
As very rough approximations,
a "family" in 1901 averaged 4.27 persons, and in 1911, 420.
In 1901 the occupants of flats were not tabulated separately. In 1911 the average "family"
of a flat comprised 3.11 persons, as compared with 4 "20 in an "ordinary dwelling house."
As some use will be made later on of the number of properties rated in the Borough, it
should be stated here that there is no correspondence between the numbers of buildings and
ratings.
Tenements.—Previous to 1911 "heads of families" were asked to state the number of rooms
in their houses or tenements only in the event of their occupying less than five rooms, and the
tables relating to the sizes of tenements did not extend beyond four rooms. At the last census
particulars as to the number of rooms were asked for in every case, and the tabulation given in
Vol. VIII. of the Census Report shows the numbers of tenements of 1.9 rooms (for each
increase of one room) according to the number of occupants in each individual tenement up to
14 occupiers, with a supplementary column for tenements with 15 or more occupiers. There is
also a tabulation of tenements of 10 or more rooms according to the number of occupants.
Moreover, not only is the subdivision of each class of tenement made according to the total
number of occupants, but the families are subdivided according to the number of children
under 10 years of age. The method of tabulation will, perhaps, be better understood from the
following scheme.
1. All tenements distributed according to the number of rooms,
1, 2, 3 9, 10 and upwards.
2. Each tenement of 1, 2 rooms distributed according to the total number of occupants,
1, 2, 3 14, 15 and upwards.
3. The latter further subdivided according to the number of children under ten years of age,
1, 2,3
As regards the Metropolis such minute division has been made for the County only, the
third distribution (by number of children) stopping at tenements of four rooms in the tables for
the individual Metropolitan cities and boroughs. There is, however, appended to each of that