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Carshalton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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The total number of occupied rooms in these houses was 6,466,
and the population was 5,160, or 1.25 rooms per person.
At the Royal School for the Blind there were 185 inmates and 53
members of the staff, etc., and 355 persons were enumerated in three
other institutions, including- the St. John's School.
The following Table shows the number and percentage of families occupying from 1 to 5 rooms, and over 5 rooms, with the respective populations and the percentage of the whole population in private families, and the corresponding percentages of families and population in 1911.
| Number of Rooms. | Number of Families | Percentage of Families. | Population, 1921. | Percentage of Population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 1911 | 1921 | 1911 | |||
| 1 | 34 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 47 | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| 96 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 207 | 4.0 | 1.6 | |
| 3 | 109 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 387 | 7.5 | 5.9 |
| 4 | 359 | 28.2 | 28.1 | 1455 | 28.2 | 26.6 |
| 5 | 334 | 26.3 | 28.6 | 1428 | 27.7 | 31.6 |
| Over 5 | 339 | 26.6 | 30.2 | 1636 | 31.7 | 33 .6 |
Exclusive of families recorded as consisting of one person only,
172 families, with an average of 3.3 persons per family, occupied
tenements of less than four rooms, and 342 families, with an average of
4.2 persons per family, occupied four-roomed tenements in 1921.
The average size of families in the District was 4.06 as against
4.16 in 1911.
In 1921, 3 one-roomed tenements, 4 two-roomed tenements, 7 threeroomed
tenements, 13 four-roomed tenements and 3 five-roomed
tenements, or 30 in all, were occupied under conditions of more than
two persons- per room; the population of these tenements was 271,
being 5.3 per cent, of the population in private families. In 1911 there
were 14 such tenements, with 121 occupants, being 2.5 per cent, of the
population.
| males and 831 females. Ihe chief numbers enumerated under various occupations were as follows:— |