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(3) No. of dwelling houses in respect of which Closing
Orders were determined, the dwelling houses having
been rendered fit Nil.
(4) No. of dwelling houses in respect of which Demolition
Orders were made Nil.
(5) No. of dwelling houses demolished in pursuance of
Demolition Orders Nil.
(6) No. of dwelling houses demolished voluntarily 1
OVERCROWDING.
During the course of systematic house-to-house inspection of
3,934 consecutive houses of the working classes between 1st January
and 31st December, 1924, 349, or 8.8 per cent., were found to
contain one or more overcrowded rooms. The standard of overcrowding
was on the basis of a minimum of 360 cubic feet air space
in sleeping rooms for persons over 10 years of age, or 400 cubic feet
where the room is both a living and a sleeping room; and 250 cubic
feet per person under 10—this being the standard fixed in the local
bye-laws for houses let in lodgings. 657 families occupied these
349 houses, and 459, or 69.8 per cent., of these families living in
overcrowded houses, were found to be overcrowded. In 197 of the
349 houses it was found possible to abate the overcrowding without
producing corresponding overcrowding elsewhere.
548 Notices were served to abate the overcrowding.