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All the dwellings below the dark lines are overcrowded according
to the standard of the Registrar General. These total 1,287 compared
with 882 in 1911.
The greatest overcrowding was found in "occupations" of three
rooms, then comes those of four rooms, followed by those of one,
two and five rooms.
The percentage of families living in the various units of occupation,
i.e., the number of rooms to a family, shows little change
from 1911, in habitations of four rooms and over; in those with
fewer rooms a considerable change has taken place.
In 1921, 3 per cent. of our "families" lived in one room, 6.5 per
cent. in 2 rooms and 20.9 in 3 rooms as against 2.5, 4.1 and 18.8
per cent. in 1911.
In other words, in 1911, 666 families lived in one room, 1,092
in two rooms and 4,945 in three roomed tenements as against 897,
1,929 and 6,148 in 1921.
Although the average number of rooms per "dwelling" is shown
to be 5.2 the number of 4 to 5 roomed houses, occupied by two
private families was 1,006 and the number of 6 to 8 roomed houses
occupied by two or more families was 3,409 or nearly 42 per cent,
of the whole.
Little change has taken place in this respect since 1921 and need
of suitable housing accommodation for our people is still urgent.
The occupations of the people according to the Classification of
the Registrar General were in proportion to 1,000 of the population
—aged 12 years and over—as follows:—