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Appendix II.
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I will only quote the table the Commissioners have compiled from the Census returns of 1871—reminding the reader that upon the same space on which these people are now living;—wretched and overcrowded—two to four hundred on every acre—three or four times as many might be excellently housed in health and comfort, with half the total area left open for air-spaces, playgrounds, and streets.


Name of Locality

Population
in 1871

Number of
Inhabited
Houses

Area in
Acres

Number of
Inhabitants
per Acre
(roughly)

Number of
Inhabitants in
each House
(roughly)

THE ENTIRE METROPOLIS 3,254,260 417,767 75,362 43 8
WESTMINSTER DISTRICT 51,181 4,554 216 237 11
(1) St. James' Sq. Sub-district 10,472 1,384 84 125 8
(2) Golden Sq. Sub-district 12,860 1,111 54 238 11
(3) St. Anne's, Soho Sub-district 17,562 1,337 54 325 13
(4) Berwick Street Sub-district 10,287 722 24 428 14
St. Giles', South Sub-district 19,109 1,214 64 298 15
Spitalfields Sub-district 15,818 1,431 52 304 11