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(b) Summary of housing conditions in another street in
the Borough :—
(a) Houses 73
Families 110
Rooms 352
Persons 472
Number of Families living
more than two per room 13
Number of families per house 1½
(b) Cases of Overcrowding. The following reports by
the Sanitary Inspectors shew the conditions existing in some
houses in the Borough:—
(1) This house contains 4 small rooms on 2 floors. There are
2 families with a total of 10 persons in the house. The
top floor front room is used as a sleeping room by a man,
wife and 5 children (2 girls aged 10 and 8 years ; 2 boys
aged 6 and 4 years, and a baby 6 weeks old). The wife
attends Maxey Road Dispensary for Tuberculosis. This
family also has the ground front room as a living room.
The other two rooms are occupied by the landlady (who
is the wife's mother) and 2 children, as one living and
one sleeping room.
(2) This house contains 4 small rooms on 2 floors. There are
3 families with a total of 10 persons in the house. The
top floor front room is used as a sleeping room by a
widow and her 4 children (2 girls aged 17 and 14 years,
and 2 boys aged 11 and 9 years). This woman is in
straitened circumstances and is compelled to let her rooms
as she is behind with her rent. She is going to ask the
Guardians to take the two boys off her hands. This
family also uses the ground floor back room as a living