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SECTION VII.—HOUSING.
Particulars as to housing inspections, and the results of such
inspections, are set out in detail in the section of the report dealing
with sanitary administration, where information is given as to the
inspections made as a result of complaints for miscellaneous
reasons and as to house-to-house inspections in working-class
streets carried out during the year.
Some light is thrown on the housing conditions, and on the
conditions of health associated with them, by the following analysis
of the data connected with the inspections of 2,465 dwellings, in
selected poorer working class roads, conducted on a uniform basis
of recording during the period September, 1923, to December 31st,
1924. In the earlier part of the following figures it has been necessary
to compare these " selected roads " with the whole borough,
in the later portions more conveniently with the remainder of the
borough.
A.—Housing Accommodation.
1.—Number of dwelling rooms per person:—
Whole borough 1.25 (1921 Census)
Selected roads 0.84
2.—Percentage of private family population having more than
2 per dwelling room:—
Whole borough 4.7 (1921 Census)
Selected roads 11.7
3.—Distribution of (a) families, (b) population in families, in
respect of numbers of rooms occupied, in the whole
borough, and in selected roads:—