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The overcrowding survey commenced in November, 1935, was completed in March, 19[???]
24,076 houses were visited and particulars regarding 24,474 families were obtained and
tabulated. 349 families or 1.42% were found to be overcrowded.
Subsequently the Minister of Health fixed, for this district, the 1st July, 1936 as the
appointed day for the purposes of section 6 of the Housing Act, 1935, and the 1st January, 1937
as the appointed day for the purposes of sections 3, 4, 8 and 68 of the said Act.
At the end of the year 15 families, comprising 110 persons living in Council houses, either
had been re-housed on our own estates or had removed to privately owned houses. The Housing
Committee are making provisions for re-housing the remaining overcrowded families.
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