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standard laid down in the Bye-laws for houses let in lodgings is
usually accepted, namely 400 cubic feet per adult in rooms used
for both living and sleeping, and 300 cubic feet for rooms used
for sleeping only, with half these amounts for every child under
12 years of age.
Petersfield Road consists of 53 houses, but almost every
house is sublet into two tenements. At the first inspection of
this street, 16 houses were overcrowded ; on re-inspection, the
number was reduced to four. The population of the street consisted
of 279 adults and 169 children, or an average of 8'4 per
house.
St. Margaret's Terrace consists of 17 houses, three of which
were overcrowded.
All Saints' Eoad consists of 17 dwelling houses and three
laundries. Five of the dwelling houses were overcrowded. The
number of occupants was ascertained to be 75 adults and 52
children.
All these streets are in the South West Ward, but the conditions
are somewhat similar in those streets inspected and
situated in the other wards.
Somerset Road, for instance, consists of 74 houses, with a
population of 300 aduts and 210 children.
Almost every house is sublet into two tenements, and three
cases of overcrowding were detected.
Shaftesbury Road contains a number of Common Lodging
Houses, and of the 33 deaths belonging to this street, 13
occurred in public institutions outside the district. Most of
these were persons who had been removed to the Infirmary from
a Common Lodging House.