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Southwark 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table showing the percentage of overcrowding in each of the
Metropolitan Boroughs.
Borough.
Total
Families.
Overcrowded.
Percentage
Overcrowded.
Battersea
40,863
1,968
4.8
Bermondsey
27,502
3,163
11.5
Bethnal Green
26,093
3,894
14.9
Camberwell
59,722
2,950
4.9
Chelsea
8,496
749
8.8
Deptford
29,724
1,317
4.4
Finsbury
16,097
2,458
15.3
Fulham
38,882
1,795
4.6
Greenwich
20,542
1,091
5.3
Hackney
60,899
2,651
4.3
Hammersmith
35,286
1,728
4.9
Hampstead
17,917
449
2.5
Holborn
5,858
700
12.0
Islington
89,428
6,757
7.5
Kensington
24,296
2,529
10.4
Lambeth
76,924
3,881
4.9
Lewisham
35,182
1,057
3.0
Paddington
27,212
1,998
7.3
Poplar
37,102
4,080
11.0
St. Marylebone
16,009
1,619
10.1
St. Pancras
48,210
4,464
9.3
Shored itch
22,595
3,898
17.2
Southwark
41,208
4,096
9.9
Stepney
49,317
7,632
15.5
Stoke Newington
12,149
462
3.8
Wandsworth
81,365
1,801
2.2
Westminster
26,136
1,083
4.1
Woolwich
39,621
683
1.7
County of London
1,014,633
70,953
7.0