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Section IV.
HOUSING CONDITIONS.
It was found on examination of the records that overcrowding does
not exist when judged by the standard adopted by the Registrar-General,
namely two persons per room, yet when examined on the basis of overcrowding
existing when more than two-and-a-half persons occupy a
bedroom it was found that the average number of persons per bedroom
was 2.74.
The housing investigation sheets used in the Department until early
in the current year did not afford all the particulars that are necessary for
estimating overcrowding when the standard of two-and-a-half persons
per bedroom is adopted. Therefore, the number of records used in the
present enquiry only represent a proportion of the houses inspected during
1927. but can be taken as representative of the Borough as a whole.
Number of houses to which the records relate 472
Number of houses overcrowded (Registrar-General's
standard) 21
Number of houses overcrowded (two-and-a-half persons
per bedroom) 96
In addition to the above in 19 houses social overcrowding (mixing of
the sexes) was reported.