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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
Fulham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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in ascertaining the "permitted number" becomes much more serious in its effects. Houses
of this type may or may not have a common scullery on the ground floor, but the living room
on the first floor has always to be used as a scullery, and all food, etc., stored in it. The rooms
are usually of small size, so small that in many instances cooking stoves are erected on the
landing outside the living room. Every room in a dwelling of this type is therefore used to the
maximum and it has not been possible to exclude any room on the grounds that it was a scullery.
The survey results of 1,054 houses have been specially analysed with a view to throwing
light on the present occupation and the maximum possible occupation allowable by the standards
ot the Housing Acts. These results can only be described as startling and are set out in the
following table:—
TABLE 13.
| (i) | Structurally separate dwellings surveyed | 24,502 |
| (ii) | Population in "equivalent units | 115,422 |
| (ii) | Number of structurally separate dwellings, Census 1931 | 26,738 |
| (iv) | Actual population, Census 1931 | 150,928 |
| (v) | Population in "equivalent units", Census 1931 | 140,639 |
| (vi) | Number of houses analysed | 1,054 |
| (vii) | Percentage of working class houses analysed | 4.3% |
| (viii) | "Equivalent population" in houses analysed | 5,518½ |
| (ix) | "Permitted number" applicable to houses analysed | 11,177½ |
| (x) | "Permitted number" applicable to all dwellings surveyed, on basis of the 1,054 especially analysed | 259,840 |
| (xi) | "Permitted number" applicable to all dwellings surveyed, on basis of the 1,054 especially analysed, with allowance for a kitchen/living room | 186,557 |
TABLE 14.
| (i) | Number of occupied rooms in Fulham, Census 1931 | 139,943 |
| (ii) | "Equivalent units" per room, Census 1931 | 1.004 |
| (iii) | "Equivalent units" per room applicable to all dwellings, on basis of the 1,054 especially analysed | 1.85 |
| (iv) | Re-housing standard, persons per room | 1.5 |
Streets containing the 1,054 houses especially analysed.
Allestree Road Vernon Street
Biscay Road Anselm Road
Stamford Road Chesson Road
Ewald Road Edenvale Street
Seddlescombe Road Mimosa Street
Epple Road Lindrop Street
Claybrook Road St. Dunstan's Road
Avonmore Road