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standard allowed is only 400 cubic feet per adult and 200 cubic
feet for children where the rooms are used for sleeping and living
purposes, and 300 cubic feet and 150 cubic feet where the rooms
are exclusively used for sleeping purposes. As a rule, this
standard is lower than the one usually accepted for the estimation
of overcrowding. In the Census Returns, any house or tenement
which has more than an average of 2 persons per room is considered
to be overcrowded. A reference to the table of house-tohouse
inspections will show that on the Census basis there were
39 cases of overcrowding in the 594 premises inspected, compared
with 15 based on the cubic capacity of the room.
Of the 594 houses (including 992 tenements) in which a
house-to-house inspection was made, 839 of the tenements had a
rental of 10s. a week or under, and in 247 of these the tenancy
had commenced before December 3rd, 1909.