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The biggest families were found in the poorest districts in London,
Stepney being the highest with an average of 4.26 persons per family, it
had the biggest average families in the previous Census (1911).
The East-end Boroughs naturally exhibit the worst conditions with regard
to housing, especially the room density, or average number of rooms per person,
but Stepney is not the worst, (.69 rooms per person), three other Eoroughs
being in a worse position. The worst ward in the Borough is Spitalfields
East Ward with .60 rooms per person.
The excess of females over males is not so marked as in West End
Boroughs. There were 1,038 females for every 1,000 males.
With regard to occupation, 20 per 1,000 of all persons above 12 years
of age are engaged as boot and shoe makers, 8 per 1,000 as hairdressers, 7
per 1,000 as bargemen, and 6 per 1,000 as furriers. Men engaged in the
tailoring trade are more numerous in Stepney than in any other Metropolitan
Borough,—127 per 1,000,—the next Borough having only 33 per 1,000.
The Borough of Stepney contains the largest number of aliens, both
absolutely and relatively, with 37,288, representing over 30 per cent, of the
aliens in the County of London, and about 15 per cent, of the local population.
Births. The total number of births during the year was 6,002.—3,041
males, and 2,961 females,—or 167 less than in the previous year.
The birth-rate was 23.8 per 1,000 of the population, while that for the
whole of London was 20.6 per 1,000.
1,575 of the births belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate
of 29.6 per 1,000 of the population.
1,049 of the births belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate
of 25.7 per 1,000 of the papulation.
2,488 of the births belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate ot
23.8 per 1,000 of the population.
890 of the births belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate
of 16.4 per 1,000 of the population.
The birth-rate for the whole of the Borough is again lower than in the
previous year, which is equally true for the whole country- The only part of
the district where the rate has been fairly stationary is the Limehouse District
(Limehouse, Shadwell, Ratcliff and Wapping), where the birth-rate had
not been below 32 per 1,000 of the population previous to 1922.
In St. George-in-the-East, the birth-rate was higher than in the previous
year, but much below former years. During the first few years of the