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children's ages ranged from 3 months to 21 years. The income of
the family was £13 l1s. Od. per week. They were in arrears with
their rent and were spoken of as undesirable tenants.
3. The mother and six children occupied 2 rooms at a weekly
rental of 10s. 11d. They had lived here for 6 years. The children's
ages ranged from 12 to 24 years. The income of the family was
said to be £8 per week. During the investigation it was discovered
that a married daughter and her two children aged 3 years and 1
year also lived with the family.
4. A letter of application from Tottenham: "I was reading
about the flats in Finsbury which are going to be built and I should
very much like to return to the neighbourhood again I am asking
you to put my name down as we were the Tenants that were forced
to come to Tottenham on the L.C.C. estate as we could get no other
place to live in My mother and myself occupied—Street for 9 years
and that was condemned and that was pulled down over our head
4 years ago and then we managed to get into —Street which has
now been demolished a month ago we had previously lived in
Grimaldi Street for 28 years and it came a great blow when we
found we had to come up here. My mother and father had to come
as they could not get a place they are both old Dear Sir my husband
works at—and it costs him 5s. a week for riding and I have to ride
to do my shopping and it comes very dear with the rent and the
rates and 3 children to keep and I think I ought to be one of the
first to come back hoping you will oblige and not only that I have
a girl with parylisis and have to take her from Tottenham to Great
Ormond Street. I am out of the way for everything and it is like
being in a strange country after being used to Kings Cross all my
life. So I hope you put my name on the list as we had to move out
of the place and it is only right we should come back again hoping
you will do what you can for me."
5. The parents and a son 18 years occupied for living and
sleeping one small back room which was overcrowded. Later, the
mother took in her married daughter and the daughter's family of
4 children with ages ranging from 11 to 16 years. This necessitated
a re-modelling of the sleeping arrangements. Living and sleeping
in this back room were now the original parents, the married