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Overcrowding.
13. Tenements with more than two occupants per
room : —-
Number of Tenements 10
Total number of Occupiers 142
14. Number of houses intended for one family only
which are now occupied (without having been
specially adapted) by two or more families 478
Rents.
15. Particulars of prevailing rents of the various types of
working-class houses in the district: —
Type of House.
Weekly Rent.
(a) Houses with Living Room, Scullery and two
Bedrooms
6/6
(6) Living Room, Scullery and three Bedrooms
6/6
(c) Parlour, Living Room, Scullery and two
Bedrooms
6/6 to 8/-
(d) Parlour, Living Room, Scullery and three
Bedrooms
8/6 to 10/6
(e) Parlour, Living Room, Scullery and four
Bedrooms
12/6 to 14/-
(f) Tenements in block buildings
6/3 to £1 0s. 0d.
(g) Other working class dwellings (specifying):—
Parlour, Living Room, Kitchen, Scullery,
and three Bedrooms
12/6 to 14/-
Parlour, Living Room, Kitchen, Scullery
and four Bedrooms
£1 0s. 0d.
Old basement houses containing three to
ten rooms
£1 0s. 0d.
Section II.—Estimate of Housing Needs. No. of
Houses.
1. Working-class houses required during the next three
years to—
(a) Meet the unsatisfied demand for houses (taking
account of growth of population, overcrowding,
etc.) 100
(b) Re-house persons to be displaced by the clearance
of unhealthy areas Nil
(c) Replace other dwellings which are unfit for
human habitation and cannot be made fit Nil
(d) Replace obstructive or other buildings (now
inhabited and not included under heading
(c) which should be demolished Nil