HC Deb 15 May 1964 vol 695 cc120-1W
Mr. Allaun

asked the Minister of Health to now express in figures the correct number of households reported as being without a fixed bath which, according to the post enumeration survey of the 1961 census, was under-stated in the census by 5 per cent.; and if he will give the figure reported as without a water closet in the building or attached to it, as corrected by the survey.

Mr. Braine

The post enumeration survey indicates that at the 1961 Census the number of households in England and Wales without a fixed bath was about 3.4 million compared with the number returned of 3,221,260.

The true number of households without a watercloset in the building or attached to it cannot be estimated accurately because of the possibility that the phrase "attached to the building" was again misunderstood in the post enumeration survey interviews; but the number of such households was of the order of 2 million compared with the number returned of 1,008,802.

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