Not really - don't forget that you were pretty lucky if you even had one socket in every room in those days (and the upstairs ones were often fed from 'lighting' circuits) ... and it remains the system in many/most countries. Also don't forget that we're pretty unique in having plugs with fuses - in the absence of that, it's not really safe to have multiple sockets per circuit like we do.One socket per radial? there must have been boatload of wire in that house then..
Kind Regards, John