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Owners were induced to provide 154 houses with water supplies direct
from the mains in substitution for supplies from storage cisterns.
Damp proof courses were inserted in 80 premises to remedy dampness
in walls.
HOUSING ACT, 1935.
The problem of overcrowding is being grappled with. The Housing
Act of 1935 has set up a standard by which statutory overcrowding is to
be measured. In order to ascertain the precise extent of overcrowding,
the Act provides for a survey of its working-class houses by every local
authority.
Section 2 of the Act defines overcrowding as follows:—
"2. (1) A dwelling-house shall be deemed for the purposes of
this Act to be overcrowded at any time when the number of persons
sleeping in the house either:—
(a) is such that any two of those persons, being persons ten
years old or more of opposite sexes and not being persons living
together as husband and wife, must sleep in the same room; or
(b) is, in relation to the number and floor area of the rooms
of which the house consists, in excess of the permitted number
of persons as defined in the First Schedule to this Act.
(2) In determining for the purposes of this section the number
of persons sleeping in a house, no account shall be taken of a child
under one year old, and a child who has attained one year and is
under ten years shall be reckoned as one-half of a unit."
In the schedule referred to above there are two tables which read:-