ABSTRACT
The Metropolitan Boroughs of Shoreditch, Hackney, and Stoke Newington occupied a geographical location on the north-eastern periphery of the East End. At the beginning of the 1930s the three Boroughs displayed a number of variations in their respective demographic, social, economic, and topographic structures. Although its resident population had been declining steadily since its peak of 129,364 in 1861, the 1931 decennial Census revealed that Shoreditch, although significantly smaller per acre than Hackney, for example, was by far the most densely populated of the three.1 Its 97,042 population and 658 acres made for an average population density of 147.5 persons per acre, the highest of the 29 London boroughs.2
