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son and any and all of these factors which go to the
constitution of a tenement dwelling. For this purpose
I have taken the room as the unit whether
occupied separately, or fractionally as part of a tenement.
I have reduced the expression with regard
to each class of tenement to a mean of all the units
in the class. The results can only be taken as
approximately correct for the whole of Willesden,
on account of the comparatively small number of
tenements with which I have been able to deal. It
is right to say, however, that the results are based
upon an analysis of returns made in respect of a
systematic inspection, and not of inspections instituted
with a special object. They are on this
account the more likely to be characteristic.
I am indebted to the Clerk to the Council for
the following table (No. 6), the data for compiling
which was furnished by him to the Housing of
the Working Classes Committee of the London
County Council.
It will be observed that the average rent per
room for houses of all classes brought into assessment
during 1902 was 2s. 53/4d. During 1903 it was
2s. 5d.