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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following tables (11a and lib) show the number of rooms occupied by
private households and the sizes of those households It will be seen from lla
that 97 families of four or more live in one room In 136 instances a family of
six or more lives in two rooms One family of seven lives in one room and a
family of nine in two rooms At the other end of the scale two households of
one person each appear to occupy 10 or more rooms, whilst 13 such households
occupy 8/9 rooms 65 households of 5 or less persons occupy 10 or more rooms
14,255 out of 48,865 households, i.e. 29 1 per cent. consist of two persons
69 8 per cent, of which were accommodated in 2/3 rooms
The average size of a household in St Pancras is 2.6 persons
Table lib shows that 29,864 of the total of 48,865 households, being a
percentage of 61.1, occupy shared dwellings Of the 126,626 persons living in
all dwellings, 73,254 or 57.8 per cent are in shared dwellings
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