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Stoke Newington 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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single room only, which declined from 18% of the total in the year
1891 to 15% in 1901. The tenements of 2 rooms showed a slight,
and those of 3 and 4 rooms a marked, increase upon the numbers
returned at the previous Census.

The following table shows the percentage of total families occupying all forms of tenements of less than five rooms, and the percentage of total families occupying one, two, three and four rooms, respectively, in each metropolitan borough.

Name of Borough.Out of every 100 Total Families or Separate Occupiers,the Number Occupying Tenements of Fewer than 5 Rooms wasOut of every 100 Total Families or Separate Occupiers, the following Number Occupied Tenements of
1 Room.2 Rooms.3 Rooms.4 Rooms.
City of London6215201710
Battersea629152018
Bermondsey7615242017
Bethnal Green8419262415
Camberwell569141716
Chelsea6921211710
Deptford578131620
Finsbury852633179
Fulham688142521
Greenwich557131520
Hackney6010151916
Hammersmith6010171914
Hampstead42614148
Holborn782728167
Islington7116241813
Kensington551520128
Lambeth6314171715
Lewisham8146912
Paddington6515202010
Poplar7311182321
St. Marylebone732626138
St. Pancras7924291610
Shoreditch8525281913
Southwark8321262115
Stepney8122262013
Stoke Newington498131612
Wandsworth42471516
Westminster, City of641823158
Woolwioh577141719
London as a whole6615201813