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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| 1881. No. of persons per house. | 1891. No. of persons per house. | 1881. No. of persons per house. | 1891. No. of persons per house. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South— | |||||
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 8.2 | 9.9 | Battersea | 7.3 | 7.2 |
| St. George, Southwark | 8.3 | 8.5 | Wandsworth | 6.4 | 6.2 |
| Newington | 7.7 | 8.7 | Camberwell | 6.8 | 6.9 |
| St. Olave | 7.8 | 6.1 | Greenwich | 6.6 | 6.6 |
| Bermondsey | 7.8 | 7.5 | Lewisham | 6.2 | 5.8 |
| Rotherhithe | 7.4 | 7.4 | Woolwich | 7.5 | 7.7 |
| Lambeth | 7.1 | 7.1 | Plumstead | 6.3 | 6.1 |
The accompanying chart (II.)* shows the condition of the forty-one districts, as to such overcrowding of tenements of one to four rooms, the greatest overcrowding occurring in the districts immediately surrounding the City.
| Sanitary area. | Tenements with, | Number of tenements. | Percentage of all tenements. | Total occupants. | Percentage of population in each group of tenements. | Average occupants per room. | Overcrowding. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of one to four roomed tenements with more than two occupants per room. | Number of occupiers of such tenements. | Percentage of population in such tenements. | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Battersea | 1 room | 3,351 | 10.2 | 6,910 | 4.6 | 2.06 | 984 | 3,532 | 2.35 |
| 2 rooms | 5,267 | 16.0 | 18,185 | 12.1 | 1.73 | 1,319 | 7,646 | 5.08 | |
| 3 „ | 6,821 | 20.7 | 28,605 | 19.0 | 1.40 | 885 | 6,817 | 4.53 | |
| 4 „ | 5,479 | 16.6 | 28,176 | 18.7 | 1.29 | 352 | 3,371 | 2.24 | |
| Bermondsey | 1 room | 3,543 | 18.6 | 7,833 | 9.2 | 2.21 | 1,202 | 4,331 | 5.11 |
| 2 rooms | 4,399 | 23.1 | 16,085 | 19.0 | 1.83 | 1,261 | 7,307 | 8.63 | |
| 3 „ | 3,610 | 19.0 | 16,172 | 19.1 | 1.49 | 608 | 4,686 | 5.53 | |
| 4 „ | 3,459 | 18.2 | 19,308 | 22.8 | 1.40 | 355 | 3,411 | 4.03 | |
| Bethnal-green | 1 room | 6,561 | 23.4 | 17,211 | 13.3 | 2.62 | 2,927 | 11,498 | 8.90 |
| 2 rooms | 6,694 | 23.9 | 27,760 | 21.5 | 2.07 | 2,583 | 15,955 | 12.36 | |
| 3 „ | 6,059 | 21.6 | 29,828 | 23.1 | 1.64 | 1,447 | 11,496 | 8.90 | |
| 4 „ | 4,080 | 14.6 | 23,448 | 18.2 | 1.44 | 539 | 5,260 | 4.07 | |
| Camberwell | 1 room | 4,650 | 9.3 | 9,590 | 4.1 | 2.06 | 1,309 | 4,839 | 2.06 |
| 2 rooms | 6,222 | 12.5 | 20,675 | 8.8 | 1.66 | 1,416 | 8,317 | 3.53 | |
| 3 „ | 8,338 | 16.8 | 34,606 | 14.7 | 1.38 | 1,117 | 8,708 | 3.70 | |
| 4 „ | 7,711 | 15.5 | 37,492 | 15.9 | 1.22 | 441 | 4,262 | 1.81 | |
| Chelsea | 1 room | 4,720 | 21.0 | 9,670 | 10.0 | 2.05 | 1,254 | 4,666 | 4.85 |
| 2 rooms | 4,964 | 22.1 | 16,920 | 17.6 | 1.70 | 1,256 | 7,408 | 7.70 | |
| 3 „ | 3,452 | 15.4 | 14,589 | 15.2 | 1.41 | 502 | 3,989 | 4.14 | |
| 4 „ | 2,639 | 11.8 | 13,106 | 13.6 | 1.24 | 186 | 1,821 | 1.89 | |
| Clerkenwell | 1 room | 4,969 | 30.4 | 11,668 | 17.6 | 2.35 | 1,823 | 6,859 | 10.36 |
| 2 rooms | 5,156 | 31.6 | 21,279 | 32.1 | 2.06 | 2,021 | 12,407 | 18.74 | |
| 3 „ | 2,536 | 15.5 | 12,589 | 19.0 | 1.65 | 629 | 5,063 | 7.65 | |
| 4 „ | 1,115 | 6.8 | 6,202 | 9.4 | 1.39 | 139 | 1,343 | 2.03 | |
| Fulham | 1 room | 2,245 | 10.9 | 4,526 | 4.9 | 2.02 | 634 | 2,255 | 2.46 |
| 2 rooms | 3,200 | 15.5 | 10,679 | 11.7 | 1.67 | 728 | 4,200 | 4.58 | |
| 3 „ | 5,028 | 24.4 | 20,944 | 22.9 | 1.39 | 637 | 4,919 | 5.37 | |
| 4 „ | 2,978 | 14.4 | 15,095 | 16.5 | 1.27 | 200 | 1,910 | 2.08 | |
* (See also page 10.)