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(b) Sanitary Officers take as their guide the minimum
standard laid down by the Local Government Board in
their model bye.laws, viz.:
400 cubic feet per head for rooms where persons
live and sleep, and 300 cubic feet per head for rooms
used solely for sleeping apartments or for living rooms
only.
Any house, or part of a house, so overcrowded as to be injurious
or dangerous to the health of the inmates, whether or not members
of the same family, is a statutory nuisance, and when a Medical
Officer of Health so certifies the Sanitary Authority shall take
action for the abatement of such nuisance.
The first standard given above is a more practical one than the
second when comparisons are made between different areas.
On the standard of the Registrar.General at the time of the
Census (1911), the population in Woolwich living more than two
per room was 6'3 per cent. This figure was lower than any other
Borough in London with the exception of Lewisham, which was
3.9 per cent. The percentage for the County of London was 17.8.