* Including London war losses, estimated at about 70,000, distributed among the metropolitan
boroughs in proportion to pre-war population.
Overcrowding.
Table: The changes which have taken place in the tenemental occupation of the county as a whole are broadly indicated in the following table:—
The changes which have taken place in the tenemental occupation of the county as a whole are broadly indicated in the following table:—
1911.
1921.
1931.
Number of private families
1,023,951
1,120,897
1,190,030
Number of private families per occupied dwelling
1.51
1.60
1.63
Average size of family
4.15
3.79
3.46
Average rooms per person in 1-9 roomed tenements
0.88
0.91
0.98
Average number of rooms per family in 1-9 roomed tenements
3.56
3.38
3.36
Percentage of total private family population living in tenements occupied by more than two persons per room
One to four-
roomed
tenements.
The intercensal increase in the number of families in tenements of 1 to 4 rooms
was 68,538, or 8 per cent., compared with an increase of 130,831, or 18 per cent., in
the preceding intercensal period. The decrease in the number of persons living in
tenements occupied by more than two per room between 1921 and 1931 amounted
