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NUMBER OF TENEMENTS
At the Census, 1911, the total number of Tenements in the Holborn Borough was 10,584 in comparison with
13,790 at the Census 1901. The following table gives details of the Tenements of one, two, three and four rooms:—
Tenements with
Number of
Tenements.
Percentage of all
Tenements.
Total Occupants.
Percentage of
Population in each
group of Tenements.
Average Occupants
per room.
Overcrowding.
No. of 1-4 room
Tenements with
more than two
Occupants per
Room.
Number of
Occupants of such
Rooms.
Percentage of
Population in such
Tenements.
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
1911
1901
One room 2398 3725 22.6 27.0 4945 8502 10.0 14.3 2.06 2.28 611 1267 2382 4916 4.83 8.28
Two rooms 3447 3834 32.6 27.8 11412 13787 23.1 23.2 1.65 1.80 755 1126 4506 6747 9.13 11.36
Three rooms 2177 2224 20.0 16.1 8713 9175 17.7 15.4 1.18 1.38 262 328 2110 2603 4.27 4.38
Four rooms 999 989 9.4 7.2 4295 4260 8.7 7.2 1.07 1.08 54 62 545 609 1.10 1.03
Total 9021 10772 85.2 78.1 29365 35724 59.5 60.1 1.48 1.62 1682 2783 9543 14875 19.33 25.05
The word "overcrowding" is used in the sense that the Tenements were occupied by more than two persons per room, and not in the legal
sense, for of the 1,683 "overcrowded'' Tenements there were probably comparatively few for which the Council could take action to abate
overcrowding. The table shows that 59.5 per cent. of the population of the Borough lived in Tenements of one to four rooms, and that 33.1 per
cent. lived in only one or two rooms.