§ Mr. Dayasked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of private families consisting of four or more persons at present occupying one room in the borough of Southwark?
§ Sir K. WoodThe most recent figures available are those of the 1931 census, from which it appears that 761 families of from four to nine persons were then living in one room in Southwark. It is not possible to obtain strictly comparable information from the overcrowding survey of the county of London, a report of which was published by the London County Council in 1936, but the figures then obtained indicate that the number of families of four persons living in dwellings of one room is not more than 170 and may be considerably less.