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that they were prepared to consider cases of overcrowding
and special hardship for accommodation on estates
about to be built.
Each borough was allowed a proportion of the
available accommodation for this purpose, amounting
to 15 houses per thousand erected. In addition to those
families specially recommended by the borough councils
under the above-mentioned arrangement, a still larger
number of families living in London were accommodated
as the result of direct applications to the London
Countv Council.
When the applications for accommodation in the
London County Council houses are received by the
Public Health Department of the Borough Council, the
details of the family income and occupations, ages and
sexes of the individual members of the family are ascertained
and the applicants' homes are inspected by the
Sanitary Inspector.
Special types of hardship are enquired into and
verified or otherwise and recommendations are made to
the London County Council in accordance with the
dates of the applications and the urgency of the cases.
Up to the end of 1930, 1,562 applications were
made to this Council for accommodation on the London
County Council's housing estates and of these 469 applicants
withdrew their applications on hearing the particulars
regarding the position of the estates, rentals
and other details. Of the remander, 1,002 were recommended
by the borough council for accommodation, that
is to say, for preferential treatment in comparison with
other applications received by the County Council. Of
those recommended by the borough council, 414 were
successful in securing houses, 97 were offered accommodation
by the London County Council, but changed
their minds and refused the offer.
The following table
shows the number of applications made to the borough
council for London County Council houses and the
result of the applications, since 1924:—