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
City of London 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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TABLE 5.
| Place. | Average Number of Occupants per Room in Tenements consisting of | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room. | 2 rooms. | 3 rooms. | 4 rooms. | 5 rooms. | 6 rooms. | 7 rooms. | 8 rooms. | 9 rooms. | 1 to 9 rooms. | |
| The whole of London (County). | 1.92 | 1.71 | 1.37 | 1.19 | 1.03 | 0.87 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.59 | 1.14 |
| City of London | 1.72 | 1.48 | 1.12 | 0.95 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.81 | 0.65 | 0.71 | 1.07 |
Size of Families.
Table 6 shows the proportion, per 1,000 families, of families of various sizes.
As for example, in the last line of the table, it is seen that of 1,000 families in the
City of London, 249 consist of two persons to each family, 200 per 1,000 of three
persons, 152 per 1,000 of four persons, 135 families per 1,000 consist only of one
person, and 108 per 1,000 families are of five persons. The remaining 156 (sum of
columns "g" to "n") families per thousand families, consisting of more than five
persons to each family.
TABLE 6.
| Place. | Proportion, per 1,000 families, of families consisting of:— | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | 2 persons | 3persons | 4 persons | 5 persons | 6 persons | 7 persons | 8 persons | 9 persons | 10 persons | l1 persons | 12 persons or more. | |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | (k) | (l) | (m) | (n) |
| The whole of London (County). | 93 | 181 | 185 | 164 | 129 | 93 | 64 | 41 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 6 |
| City of London | 135 | 249 | 200 | 152 | 108 | 61 | 32 | 29 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 7 |
Birthplaces of City" Residents.
Table 7 shows the birthplaces of the resident population. Of the total of
19,657 persons, 17,392 were born in England and Wales, and of this number 10,938
were Londoners.
The proportion of foreigners in the City is large, being l,047 persons (see last
line of table), or 5.3 per cent. of the population, and this latter figure does not include
the children of foreigners born in the City.
Of the total population of England and Wales, 0.79 per cent. were foreigners, but
in the neighbouring Borough of Stepney, of a population of 279,804 no less than
53,060 were foreigners, or 19.3 per cent.