London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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1950-52 for each of the three socio-economic indices. The successful efforts to reduce
overcrowding have lessened the sensitivity of this index of socio-economic conditions.
In 1911 the percentage of persons living more than two to a room ranged from 3.9 to
39.8 in the London boroughs, while in 1951 the range was only from 1.3 to 4.6: thus
this index of overcrowding was no longer a measure of either the vital-statistical or
socio-economic differences between the London boroughs in 1950-52.
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