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Table 45 shows how the tenements in the houses registered during the year were occupied.
It will be seen that 22 tenements were "overcrowded," that is, were inhabited by persons in
excess of an average of two persons per room (the ages of the occupants not being taken into
account). On the standards imposed by the by-laws, 13 families comprising 51 persons were
overcrowded, but in 7 cases the deficiency in the cubic space was so small that it was
thought unnecessary to take any action, for the present at least, with reference thereto.
Overcrowding, at Registration.
In Registered Rooms—
Families 13
Persons 51
,, under 10 years of age 16
„ aged 10 years and over 35
Overcrowding abated 6
By Re-adjustment of Occupants 3
By Removal 2
Under Notice 1
Cases held over 27

T—number of Tenements containing (P/10) Persons over 10 years of age, and (10/P) Persons under 10 years of age.

Supervision.—The work connected with the "annual cleansing" occupies nearly the
whole of the time of the two Inspectors in charge of houses let in lodgings from March to
September or later. During that time all houses on the Register are inspected 3, 4, or more
times. At other times a general supervision is exercised over the whole, and full inspections
made once a quarter of houses known to be badly kept and likely to be overcrowded. The
numerous complaints received involve many inspections.
The inspections made last year numbered 2,487, that total not including the inspections
in connection with the "annual cleansing," registration, or sickness. The defects and
infringements of the by-laws discovered (including those at annual cleansing) are set out in
Table 46. Apart from those required in connection with the actual cleansing, notices to the