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HOUSING.
According to the Treasurer's Return for November, 1919, there
were at that time in Tottenham, 20,370 inhabited houses and shops
and houses, 8,235 inhabited tenements, 50 vacant houses, and 36 vacant
tenements. The definition of " Tenements " as applied in the Treasurer's
Department is as follows:— "Separately rated properties used1 as
dwellings.'
An attempt was made by the Inspectors of Nuisances, by a census
of a proportion of the population residing in each Ward to ascertain
the degree of overcrowding prevailing. Taken as the basis of calculation,
the result would be as follows :—
Harringay Ward :—
No. of houses from which returns were received ... 125
Population of these houses = 6 7 per house.
Number of houses intended for one family and inhabited
by one family 54
Number of houses intended for one family and inhabited
by more than one family 71
Number of inhabited houses in the Ward ... 2,484
„ „ tenements ,, 1,768
Total 4,252
Applying the above figures to this number of houses :—
Population of Ward 22,579
Number of houses intended for one family and inhabited
by one family 1,837
Number of houses intended for one family and inhabited
by more than one family 2,415
Number of houses calculated to be overcrowded 132