London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
This page requires JavaScript
62
to each tenement, giving an average of 3.4 persons per room: of 6,72
two-roomed tenements there were 1,451 having five occupants and
over to each: of 8,078 three-roomed tenements, there were 964 each
having seven occupants and over, and of 6,401 four-roomed tenement
there were 473 each having eight occupants and over, the general
average for the 4,098 tenements being three persons per room.
TOTAL TENEMENTS, AND TENEMENTS WITH LESS
THAN FIVE ROOMS, distinguishing those occupied by
various numbers of persons in the sanitary area of
the Registration Division.
CENSUS, 1891.
| Sanitary Area. | Booms in Tenement. | No. of Tenements with less than 5 Rooms. | Number of Occupants of Tenements | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 of more | |||
| Hackney | 1 | 4,715 | 2,113 | 1,392 | 698 | 348 | 121 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Total | 2 | 6,722 | 727 | 1,966 | 1,496 | 1,082 | 713 | 431 | 189 | 83 | 28 | 6 | 1 | – |
| Tenements | 3 | 8,078 | 290 | 1,712 | 1,708 | 1,436 | 1,167 | 801 | 497 | 277 | 135 | 41 | 11 | 3 |
| 48,130. | 4 | 6,501 | 120 | 736 | 1,012 | 1,140 | 996 | 908 | 654 | 480 | 272 | 129 | 54 | 18 |
These figures refer to the Registration District which include
Stoke Newington, but a close approximation to the number for
Hackney alone may be made by reducing the total, in the proportion
that the houses of the former bear to the latter district. This give
the number 22,398 tenements of one to four rooms at the census
1891 in Hackney alone, which I believe to be rather an under
estimate. As stated above, to obtain the exact number of tenement
of Hackney at the present time, a house to house enquiry would be