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OVERCROWDING.
During the course of a systematic inspection of 4,706 houses
between 1st January and 31st December, 1930, 169 or 3.5 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. 273 families occupied
these 169 houses and 187 or 68.5 per cent. of these families
were found to be overcrowded. In 96 houses of the 169 houses it
was found possible to abate overcrowding without producing corresponding
overcrowding elsewhere.
187 notices were served to abate overcrowding.