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the mortality in these streets with that of the South West ward
than with that of the other wards. It may be possible after
the Census to obtain a comparative mortality table for each
ward.
Of the conditions found on inspection, it seems probable that
overcrowding is the one that affects most materially the
mortality. In most of the premises inspected some sanitary
defect was found. Leythe Road and Enfield Road contained
the highest percentage of houses in which no sanitary defect
was found.
Leythe Road consists of 45 houses with a population at the
time of inspection of 185 adults and 123 children. In three of
the houses there were no sanitary defects and in a large number
of the others, the defects were not of a serious nature,
Enfield Road consists of 31 houses and the number of
occupiers was ascertained to be 129—87 adults and 42 children.
In 16 of the houses there were numerous defects and in 12
others there were slight ones.
In neither of these streets was there a case of overcrowding
In Enfield Road the average number of occupants per house was
a little over four ; and in Leythe Road although most of the
houses are devided into tenements, the average was under seven
persons per house.
Junction Road, on the other hand, had an average of 11.5
per house. This street consists of 12 houses, 11 of which were
occupied at the time of inspection. The occupiers numbered
126—95 adults and 31 children, In three of the houses there
was overcrowding.
It should be explained that overcrowding is a term having
many definitions and standards, but it is customary to accept a
standard of cubic space in regard to it. In practice the