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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE No. 2.
| Size of family ("equivalent number" of persons). | Size of dwelling occupied, in terms of the maximum "equivalent number" of persons permitted to occupy it without causing it to be overcrowded. | Totals of families. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0* | ½* | 1 | 1½ | 2 | 2½ | 3 | 3½ | 4 | 4½ | 5 | 5½ | 6 | 6½ | 7 | 7½ | 8 | 8½ | 9 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1½ | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | - | - | - | 5 | 16† | 21 | ||||||||||||||
| 2½ | - | - | - | 9 | 21 | 30 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | - | - | - | 6 | 15 | 5 | 26 | |||||||||||||
| 3½ | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | 24 | 110 | 142 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 58 | 130 | 3 | 196 | |||||||||||
| 4½ | - | - | - | - | 2 | 16 | 64 | 3 | - | 85 | ||||||||||
| 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 60 | - | 6 | 6 | 86 | |||||||||
| 5½ | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 40 | - | 16 | - | 23 | 85 | ||||||||
| 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 17 | - | 20 | 3 | 40 | 1 | 87 | |||||||
| 6½ | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 1 | - | 35 | ||||||
| 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | - | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | 24 | |||||
| 7½ | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | 17 | ||||
| 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 6 | - | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24 | |||
| 8½ | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 7 | ||
| 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 5 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 15 | |
| 9½ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Totals | 1 | 2 | - | 23 | 65 | 137 | 438 | 7 | 64 | 18 | 88 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 6 | - | 2 | 1 | 887 |
* 0=a dwelling of 1 room under 50 square feet;
½=a dwelling of 1 room between 50 and 70 square feet.
†amilies with insufficient accommodation to secure proper sex separation and for that reason overcrowded.