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This overcrowding is due to the common cause operative
throughout the country, namely, the difficulties in the erection of
houses entailed by the war.
At the request of the Committee a report was submitted
on the selection of tenants for the Corporation houses from
the point of view of public health. The Committee were advised
that other things being equal persons residing in overcrowded
homes and tuberculous patients requiring better housing accommodation
should have prior consideration.
A number of cases of overcrowding were reported during the year,
but owing co the insuperable difficulty of finding alternative accommodation
no action could be taken in the matter.
The general standard of housing in the district is satisfactory.
When the survey of housing needs was made in 1919 there were no
considerable areas of seriously defective houses
The general character of the defects found to exist in unfit
houses is shewn in the following table:—