Overcrowding could lead to some real problems.
Up to 1565 the national synod consisted of a minister with one or two elders or deacons from every church; after that date, to avoid overcrowding, its numbers were restricted to representatives from each provincial synod.
The impecunious were locked up and deprived of all hope of earning means to obtain enlargement; while their families and persons dependent on them shared their imprisonment and added to the overcrowding.
Tackling the problem of overcrowding on so many of our commuter trains.
Also includes the ' overcrowding in England ' papers which contain national, regional and sub-regional statistics about overcrowded housing.
