Evidence of Congestion : Jewish Areas in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 798. Chapter XVIII: Town Planning and The Problem of Housing : Section 2: Present Housing Needs : Part 2

CHAPTER XVIII.

37. Rural areas:

(a) No, of rooms required to provide for natural increase (vide paragraph 30)

(b) No. of room required to provide for immigrants

Total rooms

(c) Deduct estimated No. of rooms constructed in rural areas (1936-1945) (vide paragraph 35)

Net deficiency in rooms (1945)

C. SUMMARY OF DEFICIENCIES IN PALESTINE HOUSING.

38. The following figures summarize the deficiencies calculated above:

Jewish community.

Deficiency in room units .Arab community.

Urban areas, deficiency in room units Rural areas, deficiency in rooms

PART IT.

Evidence of congestion.

160,000

Nil

160,000

32,000

128,000

40,000

85,500 128,000

A. JEWISH AREAS.

39. Jerusalem. In the course of a nutrition survey, carried out in 1943 by the Central Bureau for Medical Statistics of the Hadassah Organisation, investigations were made into the living conditions of 2,972 Jewish families in Jerusalem comprising 15,413 individuals of the lower wage earning groups. These families were found to be accommodated in 3 ,937 rooms at an average occupation density of 3.914 persons per room. The details of the survey are given in the following table :

Table 8.

No. of persons per room

% of persons under survey living at stated densities

6.2 4.8 4.7 4.2 8.2 8.0 2.6

22.5 15.8 10.2 11.2 15.6 13.7 11.0

100.0

798