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Of the 30,059 premises visited :—
413 were empty.
19,719 were found to house one family.
8,985 ,, ,, two families.
847 ,, ,, three families.
95 ,, ,, four or more families.
Taken as a whole, the district was not overcrowded. The number of
persons per room, spread over the whole district, was about 0.9. Some
of the overcrowding was very slight. On the other hand, 1,483 of the
uncrowded houses were just outside the overcrowding standard. The
Survey revealed that 3,112 persons were living alone.
Of the 1,322 overcrowded houses:—
489 were overcrowded by one child under 10 years.
394 ,, ,, one adult or two children.
170 ,, ,, one adult and one child, or three
children.
114 ,, ,, two adults or the equivalent.
66 ,, ,, two and a half adults ,, ,,
44 ,, ,, three adults ,, ,,
25 ,, ,, three and a half adults ,, ,,
13 ,, ,, four adults ,, ,,
2 ,, ,, four and a half adults ,, ,,
1 was ,, ,, five adults ,, ,,
2 were ,, ,, five and a half adults ,, ,,
2 ,, ,, six and a half adults ,, ,,
Of the 40,644 families dealt with, 9,783 comprised the equivalent
of two adult persons; 3,698 the equivalent of two and a half; and 8,063
the equivalent of three: i.e., more than 50 per cent. of the families were
between two and three adult persons.
Each of the eleven wards have been separately summarised. The
following are the particulars:—