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Town Hall,
Old Street,
Shoreditch, E.C. 2.
16th July, 1923
To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
SANITARY INSPECTORS.
The following resolution of the Special Standing Joint Committee, viz.:—
"To request the Law and Establishment and Health Committees to
consider the possibility of making a reduction in the number of Sanitary
Inspectors and report generally as to the steps to be taken to effect such
reduction,"
came before your Committee on June 20th last. The matter was referred to me
to report on and in pursuance of your instructions I beg to present the following:—
The Borough of Shoreditch has, including waterways, an area of 658 acres,
and on the night of the Census contained 104,248 persons. This population, however,
is probably about 2,000 under the actual number at the present time. Taking
the Census figures, the density of the population per acre averages for the Borough
158, varying from 61 per acre in Moorfields to 207 and 211 in Whitmore and Hoxton
Wards respectively. Compared with the average for the Metropolis as a whole,
which is approximately 60, the great density of the population in Shoreditch becomes
obvious. With one exception the Borough is the most densely populated in the
whole of London.
The figures show that on the night of the Census 82,037 persons were dwelling
in 9,513 undivided private houses, 84 in some 8 structurally divided houses, and
9,921 in 467 blocks of flats. There were 303 shops not containing dwellings, and
1,664 which contained dwellings accommodating 8,734 persons. There were besides
some 1,745 other premises, e.g., workshops, factories, warehouses and other like
premises which contained no dwellings, and 237 containing dwellings affording
housing accommodation for 3,472 persons.
At the Census 274 dwellings containing 1,036 rooms were returned as vacant.
Excluding these, together with those occupied by caretakers, the structurally separate
dwellings occupied by private families numbered 13,727, and included 3,910 dwellings
consisting of from 1 to 3 rooms, 4,403 of 4 to 5 rooms, 4,914 of 6 to 8 rooms and
500 of 9 rooms and over. Altogether these dwellings contained 66,145 occupied
rooms.