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A special survey was made into the condition of
various types of working class houses with the following
result, which has been extracted by Mr. G. R. Woods,
Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Five hundred and ninety-one working class houses
were visited for the survey purposes, special enquiries
being made for overcrowding conditions for houses containing
more than one family, and also for the existence
of one-room families. The houses selected for visitation
were in various districts throughout the Borough.
Seventy-five of the houses visited contained two
families, four contained three families, and one contained
four families. In these 80 houses 15 one-room families
were found to exist. It is singular that in none of these
cases did there exist overcrowding, basing the overcrowding
on the Registrar's General's standard of more
than two persons per room exclusive of scullery. Using
the same standard, 10 houses out of 591 were found to
be overcrowded, each of these houses contained only one
family.
It will be observed that 1.6 per cent, were overcrowded
and 15 per cent, contained two or more families.
The following tables show the figures in relation to
overcrowding, houses occupied by more than one family,
and the weekly rents and rates paid by the occupiers: —