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Overcrowding exists in Hornsey as elsewhere, but probably
to a less degree than in many parts of the Metropolitan and
Greater London areas. Instances of overcrowding are not infrequently
discovered by officers of the department during their
routine inspection work and there can now be few cases not known
to the department. Attempts are made to have some rearrangement
of the sleeping accommodation brought about in
those cases where boys and girls above a certain age are found
to be occupying the same bedroom, and constant observation is
kept upon many of the most careless families. Numbers of cases
of overcrowding are referred to the Surveyor with a recommendation
that their claims for a Council dwelling should receive special
consideration. Such consideration is always given, and in many
instances overcrowding has been considerably relieved by transference
of a family from a crowded house to one of the new
dwellings on the Coppetts Road Estate. The Surveyor in his
turn notifies the Public Health Department of all premises about
to be vacated by families who have been accepted as tenants
by the Town Council. In this way the Inspectors are able to
control to some extent the future sub-letting of such houses. As
a result of the most recent efforts of the Town Council in this
direction 78 houses formally occupied by 689 persons are now
occupied bv only 425.