[Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Tamworth Borough.

  • Tamworth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Tamworth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dwellings, Rooms, and Families. The following facts and figures relating to Tamworth, extracted from the Census Report, 1931, of County of Stafford, published in 1933, are of interest, as shewing the progress in the housing condition of the town. _ cr. r ac £ c At 1/3 W QJ C3 ~ > 'Z C (U O SciT'w £ re •- re z v- a — 0 (/) T3 an rr u O-— - <u - U Average Size of private Family (Persons) QJ (/) v c c re c u 5 U * ]1 O 0J u 0 O More than 2 per room density Population. 0 '■$. OQ < CJ _ C S. > U X <X No. per cent. 1921 1681 1784 455 ro6 4.41 097 877 1145 1931 1806 1838 4'67 102 «S'89 0’83 331 4‘63 Increase 125 or 744% 54 3°03% 042 Decrease 0'04 052 044 546 6'52 Whereas generally throughout the County the increase in the number of dwellings is 17.15 per cent., and the number of families has grown 18.89 per cent., it will be noted' that in Tamworth the increase of the number of dwellings is 7.44, and the number of families 3.03. The families per occupied dwelling in Tamworth has fallen from 1.06 in 1921 to 1.02 in 1931, as compared with an increase in the County of from 1.04 to 1.06. The average persons per room in Tamworth has fallen from 0.97 in 1921 to 0.83 in 1931, compared with a fall from 1.01 in 1921 to 0.92 in 1931 in the County. The number of people living at a density of more than two per room, has fallen from 977 in 1921 to 331 in 1931; 4.63 per cent, of the population are living at this density as compared with 9.18 in the whole of the County.