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With a view to learning the number of lodgers at a time when the London common lodginghouses
might be expected to be most fully occupied, a census of the inmates of these houses was
taken in June, 1897, on the occasion of the Jubilee of Her late Majesty, and on the dates in 1902
associated with the Coronation of the King. In June, 1897, when the authorised population of
common lodging-houses was about 28,700, the result of a census taken on the nights of the 21st
and 23rd gave an average of 20,762 persons actually occupying common lodging-houses. This
census, however, did not include the number of persons occupying shelters, refuges, etc. In the
following table, which gives the mean number of inmates of common lodging-houses in the week
ending June 28th, 1902, and in the week ending 26th October, 1902, the figures for the principal
shelters are included. The difference between the numbers of 23,503 and 24,801 in the two weeks
respectively may not unlikely be due to the fact that in the earlier period persons of this class
frequently find occupation in the country.