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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Southwakk—Population, 206,180; total tenements, 47,808.
Tenements with | No. of tenements. | Percentage of all tenements. | Total occupants. | 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 pe room. | No. of cccupants of such tenements. | Percentage of population in such tenements. | ||||||
1 room | 9,896 | 20.7 | 20,151 | 9.8 | 2.04 | 2,706 | 9,417 | 4.57 |
2 rooms | 12,480 | 26.1 | 44,864 | 21.8 | 1.80 | 3,292 | 19,024 | 9.23 |
3 „ | 10,211 | 21.4 | 45,398 | 22.0 | 1.48 | 1,555 | 12.091 | 5.86. |
4 „ | 7,025 | 147 | 37,510 | 18.2 | 1.33 | 580 | 5,541 | 2.69 |
Total | 39,612 | 82.9 | 147,923 | 71.8 | — | 8,133 | 46,073 | 22.35 |
Stepney—Population, 298,600; total tenements, 61,113. | ||||||||
1 room | 13,282 | 21.7 | 34,519 | 11 .6 | 2.60 | 5,928 | 22,892 | 7.67 |
2 rooms | 15.690 | 25.7 | 66,250 | 22.2 | 2.11 | 6,331 | 39,367 | 13.18 |
3 „ | 11,926 | 19.5 | 60.457 | 20.2 | 1.69 | 3,094 | 25,184 | 8.43 |
4 „ | 8,284 | 13.6 | 47.974 | 16.1 | 1.45 | 1,188 | 11,736 | 3.93 |
Total | 49,182 | 80.5 | 209,200 | 70.1 | — | 16,541 | 99,179 | 33.21 |
Stoke Newington—Population, 51,247; total tenements, 11,821. | ||||||||
1 room | 894 | 7.6 | 1,456 | 2.8 | 1.63 | 139 | 463 | 0.90 |
2 rooms | 1,600 | 13.5 | 4,744 | 7.3 | 1.48 | 235 | 1,354 | 2.64 |
3 „ | 1,885 | 15.9 | 6,337 | 12 4 | 112 | 93 | 729 | 1.42 |
4 „ | 1,434 | 12.1 | 6,074 | 11.9 | 106 | 30 | 289 | 0.56 |
Total | 5,813 | 49.1 | 18,611 | 34.4 | 497 | 2,835 | 5.52 | |
Wandsworth—Population, 232,034 ; total tenements, 49,756. | ||||||||
1 room | 2,039 | 4.1 | 3,217 | 1.4 | 1.58 | 282 | 952 | 0 41 |
2 rooms | 3,591 | 7.2 | 9,734 | 4.2 | 1.35 | 367 | 2,034 | 0.88 |
3 „ | 7,458 | 15.0 | 27,212 | 11.7 | 3 .22 | 529 | 4,028 | 1.74 |
4 „ | 7,964 | 16.0 | 36,166 | 15.6 | 114 | 347 | 3,323 | 1.43 |
Total | 21,052 | 42.3 | 76,329 | 32.9 | — | 1,525 | 10,337 | 4.46 |
Westminster, City of—Population, 183,011; total tenements, 41,244. | ||||||||
1 room | 7,546 | 18.3 | 14,008 | 7.7 | 1.86 | 1,599 | 5,787 | 3.16 |
2 rooms | 9,635 | 23.4 | 30,348 | 16.6 | 1.57 | 1,846 | 10,770 | 5.88 |
3 „ | 6,279 | 15.2 | 24,809 | 13.6 | 1.32 | 729 | 5,632 | 3.08 |
4 „ | 3,208 | 7.8 | 14,459 | 7.9 | 113 | 172 | 1,667 | 0.91 |
Total | 26,668 | 64.7 | 83,624 | 45.8 | — | 4,346 | 23,856 | 13.03 |
Woolwich—Population, 117,178; total tenements, 24,585. | ||||||||
1 room | 1,724 | 7.0 | 3,092 | 2.6 | 1 .79 | 333 | 1,126 | 0.96 |
2 rooms | 3,378 | 13.7 | 9,855 | 8.4 | 1.46 | 386 | 2,152 | 1.84 |
3 „ | 4,094 | 16.7 | 14,918 | 12.7 | 1.21 | 282 | 2,142 | 1.83 |
4 „ | 4,821 | 19.6 | 23,120 | 19.7 | 1.20 | 242 | 2,307 | 1.97 |
Total | 14,017 | 570 | 50,985 | 43.4 | — | 1,243 | 7,727 | 6.60 |
Administrative County of London—Population, 4,536,541; total tenements, 1,019,546. | ||||||||
1 room | 149,524 | 14.7 | 304,874 | 6.7 | 2.04 | 40,762 | 147,771 | 3.26 |
2 rooms | 201,431 | 19.8 | 701,203 | 15.5 | 1.74 | 50,304 | 296,659 | 6.54 |
3 „ | 181,542 | 17.8 | 752,221 | 16.6 | 1.38 | 23,979 | 187,619 | 4.14 |
4 „ | 139,533 | 13.7 | 691,491 | 15.2 | 1.24 | 9,728 | 94,047 | 2.07 |
Total | 672,030 | 66.0 | 2,449,789 | 54.0 | — | 124,773 | 726,096 | 16.01 |