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Mr. W. Joseph Stewart
asked the Minister of Health whether he will state the percentages of overcrowding in the administrative county of Durham and the county boroughs of Sunderland and South Shields; and the average of that for England and Wales for 1937?
Mr. Bernays
The percentage of overcrowding at the end of 1937 in the areas to which the hon. Member refers was approximately 8, 20.6, 13.4, and 2.9, respectively.