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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
West Ham 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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*Total Tenements and Tenements with less than Five Rooms, distinguishing those occupied by
various numbers of Persons.
| Sanitary District. | Rooms in Tenement. | Number of Tenements with less than Five Rooms. | Number of Occupants of Tenements. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 or more. | |||
| County Borough of West Ham. | 1 | 2,287 | 1,003 | 717 | 361 | 148 | 42 | 10 | 2 | i | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| 2 | 4156 | 371 | 1372 | 1,057 | 664 | 402 | 178 | 68 | 32 | 8 | 3 | — | 1 | |
| Total T enements= | 3 | 8,291 | 209 | 1.577 | 1730 | 15I7 | 1,261 | 985 | 567 | 275 | 115 | 43 | 9 | 3 |
| 42,921 | 4 | 9.036 | 121 | 1,078 | 1,369 | 1,468 | 1,266 | 978 | 671 | 357 | 130 | 55 | 26 | |
*This Table is to read as follows:—Of the 42,921 tenements in West Ham, 2,287 were tenements of one room, 4,156
were tenements of two rooms, &c., &c.; and of the 2,287 tenements of one room, 1,003 had one occupant each,
717 two occupants, &c., &c.