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From Table IV it appears that there were 83,304 persons living
in the City in tenements of less than five rooms.
According to the Registrar-General's standard there is thus an
excess of 2,589 persons living in single rooms for whom accommodation
is requisite, of 3,386 in two-roomed tenements, 3,445 in threeroomed
tenements, and 959 in four-roomed tenements, making a total
of 10,379 persons.
For various reasons, as stated, this number is considerably above
the correct figure, but it must also be kept in mind that tenements
of one to four rooms include many "flats" with a comparatively
small population, so that, after deducting those, the tenements left
have to accommodate a larger proportion of inmates than is shown
by the official returns. There has been, however, a reduction of
3,300 one-room tenements, 1,948 two-room tenements, 276 three-room
tenements, and an increase of 73 four-room tenements in the 10
years, which, on the Registrar-General's assumption, would mean
15,644 persons displaced, or calculated on the average number of
persons in such tenements 12,539.
As there has been a reduction in the population of the City of
18,958, it appears as if the greater part of it had fallen upon the
occupiers of one and two rooms. The clearance effected in connection
with the Holborn to Strand street, the Clare Market
area, &c., are responsible for about a fourth of the above decrease,
and most of the persons displaced were of the class occupying small
tenements. Deducting these, there remain some 7,000 persons who
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