View report page

Premises under Periodical Inspection.— The following
premises are kept under periodical inspection.

HOUSING.
Contained in the appendix to this Report will be found two
special reports submitted to the Public Health Committee regarding
the work carried out under the housing survey during the year.
The relatively satisfactory condition which pertains in Southgate
has already been reported to the Council, and needs little further
stressing at this juncture. It may suffice to state here that, since
the last report was issued upon the housing situation, still further
abatement of overcrowding has taken place. In February, 1936,
we were faced with 62 cases of overcrowding within the Borough,
an extremely low figure and one which gave us little anxiety. By
September of the same year this figure had fallen to 38, revealing a
situation which cannot surely be improved upon, if it can even be
equalled throughout the country.
As the housing problem has occupied a considerable proportion
of the Committee's and of the Council's attention during the year,
I should like to submit a short statement as to the development of
municipal enterprise within the Borough during the period which
has elapsed since the War.
Prior to the War, the Council had erected 82 houses, the
housing schemes being small and scattered throughout the district.
The onset of the War interrupted the Council's housing activities,
55