London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Ealing 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]

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Analysis of Overcrowding.

Number of FamiliesNumber of PersonsOccupying accommodation suitable forNumber of FamiliesNumber of PersonsOccupying accommodation suitable for
121
1l45
421
73216
533
1237
45318
142285
2043586
178
103487
1118
2415
9532
154
45425
13519
13196
319
175197
26359
66598
196539
6616
117
954
318
464
4719
10751105
17210
7762108
77210

Sixty dwelling-houses will have to be reviewed within the
next two years. These accommodate families with children
between the ages of 8 and 10 years and will become overcrowded
when the children reach the age of ten years.
It has to be particularly recorded that 61 cases of overcrowding
were found in dwelling-houses owned by the Council.
From the totals are to be deducted the numbers of houses
of the same sizes which will be left vacant by the removal of the
overcrowded families. Put in another way, the houses necessary
after the houses too small for larger families are used for the smaller
overcrowded families will be as in the table which follows :—