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Housing.
this information could not be ascertained without knowing the
size of the rooms occupied. It was necessary for the rooms of
these houses to be measured and this constituted the second stage
of the Survey.
There are about 72,400 houses in tne Borough. 61,586 were
enumerated in the Survey. Many of these were let to more than
one family and the total number of separate lettings or dwelling
houses included in the Survey was 81,365.
When the preliminary stage of the Survey was completed
there remained 5,144 dwellings where the rooms had to be measured
in order to determine if they were overcrowded.
The table which follows was designed by the London County
Council to show the distribution of the families enumerated in
relation to the size of the family and accommodation occupied,
in terms of the maximum "equivalent number" of persons permitted
to occupy it without overcrowding.
The vertical columns show the number of dwellings classified
according to the size of the rooms occupied, in terms of the maximum
"equivalent number " of persons permitted to occupy them.
The horizontal divisions show the sizes of the families as
"equivalent numbers" of persons occupying the dwellings.
Children under 10 years of age are counted as half a person.
The table shows clearly the housing condition of the 81,365
families enumerated at the time of the Survey. The thick black
diagonal line divides the overcrowded families from those not
overcrowded. Families on the left of the thick line are overcrowded,
the worst cases being farthest from the line, and those on
the right of the line are not overcrowded.
The total number of families which were found to be living
under overcrowded conditions was 1,801.
In 708 of them the overcrowding was only slightly below
the standard laid down, as it was caused by an excess of one person
only over the number permitted for the accommodation occupied:—
in 327 families the extra person was a child under ten years of age,
while 381 families consisted of one adult too many.
732 families out of the total of 1,801 were found to be seriously
overcrowded as there was an excess in the number of persons in