Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Summary showing the number of families found to be overcrowded and the distribution of such overcrowding in the wards of the City:—
Ward. | Total No. of Families. | No. of Families Overcrowded. | Percentage of Overcrowded Families. |
---|---|---|---|
Per cent. | |||
Charing Cross | 350 | 5 | 1.4 |
Conduit | 87 | 2 | 2.3 |
Covent Garden | 1,211 | 71 | 5.8 |
Great Marlborough | 346 | 31 | 9.0 |
Grosvenor | 766 | 8 | 1.0 |
Hamlet of Knightsbridge | 283 | 5 | 1.7 |
Knightsbridge St. George | 1,968 | 22 | 1.1 |
Pall Mall | 15 | — | — |
Regent | 804 | 70 | 8.7 |
St. Anne | 1,368 | 81 | 5.9 |
St. Margaret | 777 | 41 | 5.3 |
St. John | 5,734 | 318 | 5.5 |
Strand | 20 | — | — |
Victoria | 12,407 | 429 | 3.4 |
26,136 | 1,083 | 4.2 |