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* This number does not include 336 notices served in the latter
part of 1924 and complied with in 1926.
OVERCROWDIING.
During the course of systematic inspection of 3,492 houses of
the working classes between 1st January and 31st December, 1925,
187, or 5.3 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, or 400 cubic feet where the room is both a
living and 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. 373 families occupied these 187 houses, and 219, or 58.7
per cent, of these families in overcrowded houses were found to be
overcrowded. In 53 houses of the 187 houses it was found possible
to abate the overcrowding without producing corresponding overcrowding
elsewhere.
241 notices were served to abate overcrowding.