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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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(b) the aggregate for all the rooms in the house obtained by
reckoning, for each room therein of the floor area specified
in the first column of Table II in the annex hereto, the
number specified in the second column of that Table in
relation to that area,
whichever is the less.
Provided that in computing for the purpose of the said Table I the
number of rooms in a house, no regard shall be had to any room having
a floor area of less than 50 square feet."
| Table I. | Table II. |
|---|---|
| Where a house consists of:— | Where the floor area of a room is:— |
| (6) Two rooms 3 | (b) 90 sq. ft. or more but less than 110 sq. ft. 1½ |
| (c) Three rooms 5 | (c) 70 sq. ft. or more, but less than 90 sq. ft. 1 |
| (e) under 50 sq. ft Nil |
*with an additional 2 in respect of each room in excess of five.
In addition the Act provides that a dwelling house shall be deemed to
be overcrowded when the number of persons sleeping therein is such that
any two of those persons being over 10 years of age and of opposite sexes
and not a man and wife must sleep in the same room. Only 4 cases of
overcrowding of this description were found during the survey.