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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Leyton 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
Area in acres 2,594
Population (Census 1931) 128,313
Population (Registrar-General's estimate, June, 1937) 118,100
Number of families (Census 1931) 34,368
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1931) 26,306
Number of persons per house (Census 1931) 4.87
Assessable value for General Rate purposes £779,390
Sum represented by a penny rate for General Rate
purposes (as from 1st April, 1938) £3,089
Summary of Dwellings, Rooms and Private Families.
Housing Census 1931.
Dwellings occupied by private families 26,306
Percentage of vacant unfurnished dwellings 1.00
Rooms occupied by private families 143,147
Private families 34,368
Population in private families 123,522
Rooms per occupied dwelling 5.44
Families per occupied dwelling 1.31
Persons per family 3.59
Persons per room 0.86
Percentage living more than 2 persons per room—
Private families 2.94
Population 5.61