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upon the actual number of occupiers as ascertained at the
inspection. In others, where the actual number of occupants
had not been ascertained, or where an interval having elapsed,
the figures had become unreliable, an average of 7 occupants
per house has been allowed. This is higher than the average
for the district, which at the Census of 1901 was 6.2; but in
most of the premises now under consideration, the houses are
let out into tenements. Enfield Road and the Steyne are
probably expections, and the average number of occupiers to
each house in Enfield Road was four. In Petersfield Road, on
the other hand, the average was 8.4, and in Junction Road
11.5. The percentage of overcrowded houses in these two
latter streets was abnormal.
Leythe Road and Somerset Road may be taken as being
near the normal; in the former the average was 6.8, and in the
latter 7.
The streets included in the Table have been those which
had an average annual death-rate for the four years of 20 per
1000 or over,
18 of the streets are situated in the South-West Ward, 5 in
the South-East, 2 in the North West and 1 in the North East.
Gloucester Road is in the North East Ward, Berrymead
Gardens and the Steyne are in the North West, and Priory
Road, Saville Road, Beaconsfield Road, Berrymede Road and
Somerset Road are in the South East Ward.
All the streets present features somewhat similar to each
other, and they approximate more in their character to the
conditions which obtain in the South West Ward, than to those
of the other wards. The age distribution of the population, for
instance, is probably different to that of the North East, North
West and South East Wards, and it would be fairer to compare