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Among the many details, arrangements were made for both
enumerators and survey assistants to accept complaints regarding
nuisances which were passed to the sanitary inspector of the
district to follow up. This attention did undoubtedly smooth a
difficult path at times.
The results of the survey contained in the 56,191 forms, A and B,
were then collated on Forms C, which give a clear picture of the
degree of overcrowding as will be seen in the Form C for the whole
borough, on pages 65-6. Briefly, the ordinates of the graph are the
equivalent number of persons in the family and the abscissae the
number of families occupying dwellings with specified accommodation.
The graph is divided by a black line, and all families with
adequate accommodation appear above it, while overcrowded
families are entered below it. The summary in the lower right
corner shows that the 48,184 houses surveyed provide dwellings
for 76,924 families; of which only 3,881 are overcrowded, i.e.,
5.04 per cent. The number of " equivalent persons " overcrowded
is 19,798 and the proportion of the estimated total " equivalent
population " overcrowded in the Borough is 7.5 per cent.