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TABLE 10.—Buildings, Dwellings, Rooms and Families.—Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone.
Note.—The following- table contains analyses of (1) the buildings and (2) the structurally separate dwellings of each area.
In the upper part of each section the several classes (Groups 1-5) are analysed both in the left-hand columns (a-c) in respect of
their characteristics as buildings, and in the right-hand columns (f-p) in respect of the dwellings which they comprise. In the
lower part of each table the subjects of analysis on the left and right respectively are different; on the left the "buildings" analysis
is continued in respect of an expanded classification of one of the five groups; while on the right the analysis according to
dwellings is continued in respect of certain selected classes of private family occupations.
Buildings.—(Left-hand columns (a-c)).—In the enumeration of buildings, a building has generally been regarded as a structure
wholly detached or separated from another by a vertical party wall. A block of flats would be one building though there might
be one or more separate flats on each floor.
The allocation of buildings among the several classes shown in column (e) is based on the descriptions furnished by the local
enumerators. The varieties of type encountered in the buildings enumerated have, however, inevitably given rise to some
difference of practice on the part of enumerators in describing borderline cases; and the numbers of buildings assigned to the
several classes in column (e) should, therefore, be regarded as approximate.
The classification differs from that adopted in 1911 in the following respects:—
(a) Structurally divided private houses are separately shown for the first time, with a view to affording an indication
of the extent to which houses originally built for the occupation of single families have been structurally divided to' provide
separate and independent accommodation for two or more families. There is evidence, in the returns, that it has not always
been possible for enumerators to distinguish between buildings originally erected to comprise, e.g., maisonettes and those
subsequently converted for the purpose.
(b) Inns and Public Houses in which the business of the establishment is primarily that of retailing liquors are classed
with shops (Group IV), instead of with Hotels (Group V), which are thus limited in the table to those of a residential character.
Structurally Separate Dwellings (right-hand columns (f-p)).—Above the "total" line dwellings are classified according to
the type of building in which they occur, while below the "total" line the same premises are classified according to> the number of
families enumerated within them.
Dwellings! "vacant" on Census night include those unoccupied through the temporary absence of the usual occupier as well as
those without a tenant.
The total rooms in dwellings occupied by private families as shown in the following table is usually slightly in excess of the
total rooms occupied (Tables 3 and 11) owing to the fact that in certain dwellings inhabited by two or more families, part of the
dwelling' was occupied on Census night.
Definitions.—For definitions of "Private Family," "Structurally Separate Dwelling," and "Rooms," see note at the head of
Table 3.