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3 Ditto
1,902
4 Ditto
585
5 Ditto
192
6 Ditto
55
7 Ditto
24
8 Ditto
2
9 Ditto
—
10 Ditto
2
11 Ditto
1
Total number of Families living in overcrowded circumstances
exceeding the L.C.C. standard of two
persons to a room
2,763
This Census, of course, was not made on the same lines as the
ordinary decennial Census of the Government, and does not purport
to give the number of persons living and sleeping in the
Borough on a certain date. In other directions, however, it is
probably more correct, especially in regard to the inhabited
houses. The Census was done by the eight District Inspectors and
one temporary Inspector, making nine in all.
The following report was made to the Housing Committee
and based on the above Census: —
"The word 'overcrowding' is sometimes very loosely used.
For instance, it may refer to the number of houses per acre, the
number of persons per acre, the number of persons per inhabited
house or the number of persons per room. With the first two
we are not very much concerned at present, except when making
a lay-out for an insanitary area or for land upon which it is proposed
to build. By far the most important, so far as this Borough
is concerned, are the last two and, of these, the number of persons
per room is the more important. For example, it is possible to
have a larger number of people in a house than is desirable, but,
if they are evenly distributed over the house, the results of overcrowding
are largely mitigated or absent. Overcrowding of
individual rooms, however, —especially of bedrooms and living
rooms or of single rooms occupied by separate families —brings
with it a train of evils, both physical and social.