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 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 was | Out of every 100 Total Families or Separate Occupiers, the following Number Occupied Tenements of | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Room. | 2 Rooms. | 3 Rooms. | 4 Rooms. | ||
City of London | 62 | 15 | 20 | 17 | 10 |
Battersea | 62 | 9 | 15 | 20 | 18 |
Bermondsey | 76 | 15 | 24 | 20 | 17 |
Bethnal Green | 84 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 15 |
Camberwell | 56 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 16 |
Chelsea | 69 | 21 | 21 | 17 | 10 |
Deptford | 57 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 |
Finsbury | 85 | 26 | 33 | 17 | 9 |
Fulham | 68 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 21 |
Greenwich | 55 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 20 |
Hackney | 60 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 16 |
Hammersmith | 60 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 14 |
Hampstead | 42 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 8 |
Holborn | 78 | 27 | 28 | 16 | 7 |
Islington | 71 | 16 | 24 | 18 | 13 |
Kensington | 55 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 8 |
Lambeth | 63 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 15 |
Lewisham | 81 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
Paddington | 65 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 10 |
Poplar | 73 | 11 | 18 | 23 | 21 |
St. Marylebone | 73 | 26 | 26 | 13 | 8 |
St. Pancras | 79 | 24 | 29 | 16 | 10 |
Shoreditch | 85 | 25 | 28 | 19 | 13 |
Southwark | 83 | 21 | 26 | 21 | 15 |
Stepney | 81 | 22 | 26 | 20 | 13 |
Stoke Newington | 49 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 12 |
Wandsworth | 42 | 7 | 15 | 16 | |
Westminster, City of | 64 | 18 | 23 | 15 | 8 |
Woolwioh | 57 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 19 |
London as a whole | 66 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 13 |