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The St. Helier Estate was chosen for this comparative survey
since 70 per cent of the total overcrowding in the district, found
to exist at December 1935, was on that Estate, and in the interval
between that time and the recent enumeration the decrowding
operations of the local Authority would have the maximum effect
on the population movements. The number of families occupying
these 263 dwellings which have been decrowded in this period is
15, representing 5.7 per cent of the total, whereas the percentage
of overcrowded working-class dwellings decrowded in the whole of
the district in the same period was 2 per cent and that on the St.
Helier Estate as a whole also 2 per cent.
From the information obtained in this way it will be observed
that, judged by a representative selection of 263 dwellings from
a substantial proportion of the total working-class houses in the
district where the maximum allowance for decrowding has been
made, the number of persons over 1 year of age per house (occupied
and vacant) is now 4.33 compared with a figure of 4.29 in December
1935, and that the number of persons of all ages per house
(occupied and vacant) is now 4.380.
The distribution of the estimated population by wards is shown
in Table I.