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for both living and sleeping, and 300 cubic feet for rooms used for
sleeping only, with half these amounts for every child under 12 years
of age.
A standard suggested by the Registrar-General, is as follows:—
To consider as overcrowded that proportion of the population
occupying tenements of one, two, three, or four rooms, in which
there are more than two persons to a room.
It will be unnecessary to burden this report with tables showing
the degree of overcrowding as judged by each of these standards.
But persons per inhabitable house, persons per acre, and persons per
tenement, may be briefly recorded. The following table sets forth the
number of persons per house and per acre at the census periods from
1851-1901:—