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 Hornsey, Borough of]
This page requires JavaScript
— 20 —
Overcrowding exists in Hornsey as elsewhere, but probably
to a less degree than in many parts of the Metropolitan and
Greater London areas. Instances of overcrowding are not infrequently
discovered by officers of the department during their
routine inspection work and there can now be few cases not known
to the department. Attempts are made to have some rearrangement
of the sleeping accommodation brought about in
those cases where boys and girls above a certain age are found
to be occupying the same bedroom, and constant observation is
kept upon many of the most careless families. Numbers of cases
of overcrowding are referred to the Surveyor with a recommendation
that their claims for a Council dwelling should receive special
consideration. Such consideration is always given, and in many
instances overcrowding has been considerably relieved by transference
of a family from a crowded house to one of the new
dwellings on the Coppetts Road Estate. The Surveyor in his
turn notifies the Public Health Department of all premises about
to be vacated by families who have been accepted as tenants
by the Town Council. In this way the Inspectors are able to
control to some extent the future sub-letting of such houses. As
a result of the most recent efforts of the Town Council in this
direction 78 houses formally occupied by 689 persons are now
occupied bv only 425.
Pre-War. | Post-War. | |
---|---|---|
Number of houses inspected' | 210 | 210 |
Average number of rooms per house | 6.07 | 6.07 |
Total number of families | 270 | 316 |
Total number of persons over 10 years | 932 | 1,026 |
Total number of persons under 10 years | 439 | 402 |
Average number of persons per house | 5.5 | 58 |
Average number of persons per room | 0.90 | 0.96 |
Average number of persons per room used for sleeping | 1.8 | 1.9 |
Number of houses with more than 2 persons per room | 1 | 2 |
Number of houses with more than 2.5 persons per bedroom | 21 | 22 |
Number of houses sub-let | 59 | 87 |
(N.B.—Children under 10 years counted as 0.5 persons.) |