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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Greenwich—Population, 95,770; total tenements, 19,702.
Tenements with | No. of tenements. | Percentage of all tenements. | Total occupaDts. | Percentage of population in each group of tenements. | Average occupants per room. | Overcrowding. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of 1 to 4 roomed tenements with more than 2 occupants per room. | No of occupants of such tenements. | Perct ntage of population iD such tenements. | ||||||
1 room | 1,375 | 7.0 | 2,392 | 2.5 | 1.74 | 248 | 877 | 0.92 |
2 rooms | 2,552 | 13.0 | 7,480 | 7.8 | 1.47 | 366 | 2,069 | 216 |
3 „ | 2,990 | 15.2 | 11,812 | 12.3 | 1 32 | 331 | 2,555 | 2.67 |
4 „ | 3,960 | 20.1 | 19,576 | 20.4 | 1.24 | 254 | 2,446 | 2.55 |
Total | 10,877 | 55.3 | 41,260 | 43.0 | — | 1,199 | 7,947 | 8.30 |
Hackney—Population, 219,272; total tenements, 48,794. | ||||||||
1 room | 4,827 | 9.9 | 8,943 | 4.1 | 1.85 | 1,069 | 3,735 | 1.70 |
2 rooms | 7,211 | 14.8 | 22,606 | 10.3 | 1.57 | 1,264 | 7,270 | 3.32 |
s ,, | 9,387 | 19.2 | 36,322 | 16.6 | 1.29 | 888 | 6,870 | 3.13 |
4 „ | 7,664 | 15.7 | 37,005 | 16.9 | 1.21 | 463 | 4,457 | 2.03 |
Total | 29,089 | 59.6 | 104,876 | 47.9 | — | 3,684 | 22,332 | 10.18 |
Hammersmith—Population, 112,239; total tenements, 25,810. | ||||||||
1 room | 2,698 | 10.5 | 4,942 | 4.4 | 1.83 | 566 | 1,993 | 1.78 |
2 rooms | 4,389 | 17.0 | 14,187 | 12.6 | 1.62 | 892 | 5,161 | 4.60 |
3 „ | 4,919 | 19.1 | 19,273 | 17.2 | 1.31 | 492 | 3,796 | 3. 38 |
4 „ | 3,499 | 13.6 | 16,857 | 15.0 | 1.20 | 235 | 2,242 | 2.00 |
Total | 15,505 | 60.2 | 55,259 | 49.2 | — | 2,185 | 13,192 | 11.76 |
Hampstead—Population, 81,942; total tenements, 16,998. | ||||||||
1 room | 1,096 | 6.4 | 1,819 | 2.2 | 1.66 | 177 | 614 | 0.75 |
2 rooms | 2,331 | 13.7 | 7,257 | 8.9 | 1.56 | 423 | 2,465 | 3.01 |
3 „ | 2,331 | 13.7 | 8,729 | 10.7 | 1.25 | 203 | 1,550 | 1.89 |
4 ,, | 1,420 | 8.4 | 6,406 | 7.8 | 113 | 61 | 586 | 0.72 |
Total | 7,178 | 42.2 | 24,211 | 29.6 | — | 864 | 5,215 | 6.37 |
Holborn—Population, 59,405; total tenements, 13,790. | ||||||||
1 room | 3,725 | 27.0 | 8,502 | 14.3 | 2.28 | 1,267 | 4,916 | 8.28 |
2 rooms | 3,834 | 27.8 | 13,787 | 23.2 | 1.80 | 1,126 | 6,747 | 11.36 |
3 „ | 2,224 | 16.1 | 9,175 | 15.4 | 1.38 | 328 | 2,603 | 4.38 |
4 „ | 989 | 7.2 | 4,260 | 7.2 | 108 | 62 | 609 | 1.03 |
Total | 10,772 | 78.1 | 35,724 | 601 | — | 2,783 | 14,875 | 25.05 |
Islington—Population, 334,991; total tenements, 79,129. | ||||||||
1 room | 12,955 | 16.4 | 25,988 | 7.8 | 2.01 | 3,316 | 11,772 | 3.51 |
2 rooms 3 „ | 18,934 14,379 | 23.9 18.2 | 65,508 57,671 | 19.6 17.2 | 1.73 1.34 | 4,455 ] ,662 | 26,056 12,914 | 7.78 3 86 |
4 „ | 9,533 | 12.0 | 47,256 | 14.1 | 1.24 | 638 | 6,206 | 1.85 |
Total | 55,801 | 705 | 196,423 | 58.7 | — | 10,071 | 56,948 | 17.00 |
Kensington—Population, 176,628; total tenements, 38,349. | ||||||||
1 room | 5,695 | 14.9 | 11,334 | 6.4 | 1.99 | 1,424 | 5,138 | 2.91 |
2 rooms | 7,776 | 20.3 | 27,800 | 15.7 | 1.79 | 2,208 | 13,123 | 7.43 |
3 „ | 4,757 | 12.4 | 20,210 | 11.4 | 1.42 | 764 | 5,987 | 3.39 |
4 | 2,887 | 7.5 | 14,081 | 8.0 | 1.22 | 203 | 1,959 | 1.11 |
Total | 21,115 | 55.1 | 73,425 | 41.5 | — | 4,599 | 26,207 | 14.84 |