View report page

9
in single-roomed tenements, compared with 2¼ for England
and Wales, 1⅓ in 2-roomed tenements, compared
with 1¾, 1.2 in 3-roomed tenements, compared with 1.4,
and 1.18 in 4-roomed tenements, compared with 1.16.
The Registrar General adopts a standard of 2 persons
per room as the maximum that can be allowed
without overcrowding. Taking this standard I find that
830 persons in this district were living in an overcrowded
state. This number is 3*3 per cent, of the total population,
and the corresponding figure for England and
Wales is 1T23 per cent.
Estimated Population at the Middle of 1893.
It is necessary to make an estimate of the population
of the district at the middle of the past year for the
purpose of estimating the mortality, &c. I have
estimated that the population gf the whole district was
27,720 exclusive of the public institutions I have already
named. This estimate is arrived at by assuming that
the last inter-censal increase of the population has been
maintained, and this assumption has been corrected by
calculations based on the returns which I have received
giving the number of inhabited houses in 1893.