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It consists of two parts, the first provides that there must
be sufficient sleeping accommodation in a house to provide
separation of sexes.
The second is a standard of capacity and fixes the maximum
number of persons that may be permitted to sleep in that house
at one time.
In the case of a house, part of which is sub-let, the rooms
occupied by the sub-tenant will constitute a separate house.
Children between the ages of one and ten years count as one
person, and a child under one year of age does not count at all.
No two persons both of ten years of age or over of opposite
sexes, except living together as husband and wife, must sleep in
the same room. Only rooms normally used in the locality as
living and sleeping rooms are to be counted as rooms.
Full details of the provisions of this Act were circulated by
posters throughout the district and the dissemination of leaflets
setting forth the details of the overcrowding standard and the
obligations upon both landlord and tenant.
The Minister of Health fixed April 1st, 1936 as the date by
which the inspection of the district must be made and in order
to comply with the Ministry's requirements six special
enumerators were engaged to carry out the survey on the lines
laid down by the Minister.
It was estimated that the number of dwellings to be visited
would be over 5,000 and the number of separate families to be
recorded would be about 6,000.
The other principal alterations in the Housing Act, 1935 so
far as they affect the Local Authority, dealing with the redevelopment
and re-conditioning of buildings, considerably
strengthen the existing provisions and should make for further
progress.