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There were 21 schools and 37 departments. Owing to the
rapid increase in population overcrowding occurs in some of the
schools. In a number, temporary accommodation has been
provided to meet the deficiency. School attendance has played
little part in the dissemination of infection. None of these schools
has been closed or disinfected during the year on account of
infectious diseases.
Other educational institutions under the control of the
Middlesex Education Committee are the County School for Boys
at Gayton Road, Harrow, the County School for Girls, at Lowlands
Road, Harrow, the Harrow Weald County School (for boys and
girls), Brookshill, Harrow Weald, and the Harrow Technical School
and School of Arts and Crafts, Station Road, Harrow.
Apart from the Harrow School and the Royal Commercial
Travellers School Hatch End, there are some 63 private schools
in the district, mostly for day scholars, the numbers on roll varying
from small numbers up to nearly 300.
COUNCIL HOUSING.
The Annual Report for the year 1934 contains a summary of
the various houses maintained by the Council, being a total of
about 1,800. Between July, 1934, and September, 1935, 1,191
applications for Council houses were received. About 250 of
these were from residents in each of the three districts, Edgware
and Little Stanmore, Harrow and South Harrow, and Wealdstone.
A further 150 were from residents of Harrow Weald, 75 from
Pinner and North Harrow, and 60 from Kenton.
In May the Housing Committee recommended the development
of two portions of land in the possession of the Council acquired
for housing purposes, viz., the Glebe Housing Estate (Stanmore
North) and the Berridge Estate (Stanmore South).
In December it was resolved to invite tenders for the erection
of 50 three-bedroomed and 20 two-bedroomed houses on the
Berridge Estate. As, apart from these two portions of land, which
would hold 40 and 70 houses, there is no land in the possession of
the Council suitable for the erection of houses for the working
classes, at their October meeting the Council resolved to acquire
compulsorily some 40 acres of land on the east side of Rayners
Lane, South Harrow.
BURIAL GROUNDS.
By Section 46 of the Middlesex Review Order, 1934, the Council
became the Burial Authority for the district, the Burial Acts 1856
to 1906 being declared to be in force.
The following is a list of the burial grounds under the control
of the Council, with particulars of the undeveloped portion, and
the number of interments which have taken place in the grounds