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the house from which it went is visited at regular intervals by
the Sanitary Inspector to prevent a recurrence of the nuisance.
During the year we have been faced with this difficulty. A
man in regular work and living in overcrowded conditions is
accepted by the London County Council as a tenant on an outlying
estate. The premises are regularly visited in the interval,and,
on one of his visits, the Sanitary Inspector finds that the
family has returned and the premises are again overcrowded.
The father states that he has lost his work, fallen in arrears with
rent, and has had to leave the estate. He returns to the home of
his parents, the only home he has ever known both as a single
man and the father of a family. More commonly perhaps he
returns to other premises, and crowds his young family into one
room. I do not know the immediate solution to this problem,
and have left it to the wiser heads of the Public Health Committee.

and the number of cases where the whole of the accommodation
occupied by a family is underground is 13.
Housing Act, 1930. —It has been the practice when extensive
work are required under Section 17 and 18 of the Housing
Act, 1930, to refer these houses to the Housing Department for
action. Forty-one houses have been referred during the year,notices
have been served in 13 cases, the work has been completed
in 6 cases, and is in course of completion in the remaining 7.
Demolition Orders were made in respect of 4 of the houses referred
to the Housing Department, one house having been demolished
and another closed for demolition. In other cases the owners
have completed the work required by negotiation without the
service of formal notices.