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Croydon 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The average number of persons living in each house
was 5.7 in 1881 and 5.4 in 1891, as compared with 5.4
and 5.3, respectively, in England and Wales.
The density of the population on area in 1891 was 1
person to .79 acre, as compared with 1.29 acres for England
and Wales; or, stated in different terms, there
were 807 persons per square mile, as compared with 497
in the whole of England and Wales.
(c) Tenements.
A very important addition was introduced into the
census returns for 1891, with a view to discovering the
number of houses occupied by more than one family.
Every house, or portion of a house occupied by a separate
family was called a “tenement,” and where such tenement
consisted of less than 5 rooms, the number of
rooms had to be stated. In a recent census report the
results of such returns are given for every sanitary district
in the country, and for this district the following is
given:—
| Total Tenements. | Rooms in Tenements. | Number of Tenements with less than 5 rooms. | Number of Occupants of Tenements. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 19 | |||
| 5 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||