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 London County Council]
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Bermondsey—Population, 130,760; total tenements, 29,073.
Tenements with | No. of tenements. | Percentage of all tenements. | Total occapants. | Percentage of population in each group of tenements. | Average occupants per room. | Overcrowding. | |||
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No. of 1 to 4 roomed tenements with more than 2 occupants per room. | No. of occupants of such tenements. | Percentage of population in such tenements. | |||||||
1 room | 4,258 | 14.6 | 8,706 | 6.7 | 2.04 | 1,189 | 4,213 | 3.22 | |
6,968 | 24.0 | 24.472 | 18.7 | 1.76 | 1,705 | 9,747 | 745 | ||
3 „ | 5,738 | 197 | 25,808 | 19.7 | 1.50 | 986 | 7,642 | 584 | |
4 „ | 5,100 | 175 | 27,170 | 20.8 | 1.33 | 427 | 4,124 | 315 | |
Total ... | 22,064 | 75.8 | 86,156 | 65.9 | — | 4,307 | 25,726 | 1966 | |
Bethnal-green—Population, 129,680; total tenements, 28,209. | |||||||||
1 room | 5,378 | 19.1 | 12,755 | 9.8 | 2.37 | 2,042 | 7,602 | 5.86 | |
2 rooms | 7,264 | 25.8 | 28,440 | 21.9 | 1.96 | 2,374 | 14,202 | 10.95 | |
3 „ | 6,746 | 23.9 | 32,410 | 25.0 | 1.60 | 1,402 | 11,100 | 8.56 | |
4 „ | 4,344 | 15.4 | 25,248 | 39.5 | 145 | 566 | 5,506 | 4.25 | |
Total | 23,732 | 84.2 | 98,853 | 76.2 | — | 6,384 | 38,410 | 29.62 | |
Camberwell—Population, 259,3.39; total tenements, 56,985. | |||||||||
1 room | 4,906 | 8.6 | 8,856 | 3.4 | 1.81 | 1,016 | 3,541 | 1.37 | |
2 rooms | 7,766 | 13.6 | 24,640 | 9.5 | 1.59 | 1,459 | 8,249 | 318 | |
3 „ | 9,899 | 17.4 | 39,642 | 15.3 | 1 .33 | 1,109 | 8,536 | 3.29 | |
4 „ | 9,355 | 16.4 | 44,510 | 17.2 | 1.19 | 489 | 4,686 | 1.81 | |
Total ... | 31,926 | 560 | 117,648 | 45.4 | — | 4,073 | 25,012 | 9.65 | |
Chelsea—Population, 73,842; total tenements, 17,467. | |||||||||
1 room | 3,812 | 21.8 | 6,609 | 90 | 1.73 | 683 | 2,369 | 3.21 | |
2 rooms | 3,736 | 21.4 | 11,831 | 160 | 1.58 | 749 | 4,399 | 5.96 | |
3 „ | 2,927 | 16.8 | 11,796 | 160 | 1.34 | 389 | 3,009 | 4.07 | |
4 „ | 1,607 | 9.2 | 7,487 | 101 | 1.16 | 93 | 882 | 1.19 | |
Total | 12,082 | 69.2 | 37,723 | 511 | — | 1,914 | 10,659 | 14.43 | |
Deptford—Population, 110,398 ; total tenements, 24,615. | |||||||||
1 room | 1,974 | 8.0 | 4,088 | 37 | 2.07 | 554 | 2,029 | 1.84 | |
2 rooms | 3,313 | 13.5 | 10,229 | 9.3 | 1.54 | 530 | 2,995 | 2.71 | |
3 „ | 3,906 | 15.9 | 14,846 | 134 | 1.27 | 322 | 2,479 | 2.25 | |
4 „ | 4,763 | 19.3 | 22,698 | 20.6 | 119 | 261 | 2,496 | 2.26 | |
Total | 13,956 | ' 56'7 | 51,861 | 470 | — | 1,667 | 9,999 | 906 | |
Finsbdry—Population, 101,463 ; total tenements, 24,097. | |||||||||
1 room | 6,364 | 26.4 | 14,416 | 142 | 2.27 | 2,227 | 8,135 | 8.02 | |
2 rooms | 7,882 | 32.7 | 31,482 | 310 | 2.00 | 2,855 | 16,960 | 16.72 | |
3 „ | 4,233 | 17.6 | 21,280 | 210 | 1.68 | 1,058 | 8,349 | 8.23 | |
4 „ | 2,036 | 8.4 | 11,168 | 110 | 1.37 | 233 | 2,279 | 2.25 | |
Total | 20,515 | 85.1 | 78,346 | 77.2 | — | 6,373 | 35,723 | 35.22 | |
Fulham—Population, 137,289; total tenements, 32,137. | |||||||||
1 room | 2,460 | 7.7 | 4,426 | 32 | 1.80 | ,512 | 1,735 | 1.26 | |
2 rooms | 4,360 | 13.6 | 13,517 | 98 | 1.55 | 723 | 4,072 | 2.97 | |
3 „ | 8,309 | 25.9 | 32,116 | 234 | 1.29 | 752 | 5,707 | 4.16 | |
4 „ | 6,552 | 20.4 | 31,305 | 22.8 | 1.19 | 354 | 3,378 | 2.46 | |
Total | 21,681 | 67.6 | 81,364 | 592 | — | 2,341 | 14,892 | 10.85 |