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forwarded to that Authority for attention. In 424 instances the
applications related to overcrowding, the remainder being cases
suitable for preferential consideration on medical grounds and/or bad
housing conditions. At the end of the year 278 of these applications
had been dealt with by the London County Council. There were also
323 applications received during 1938 for housing accommodation
in properties owned by this Council.
Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts.
Forty-one applications for certificates under these enactments
were received.
There were also 7 applications from owners of property for
certificates stating that the work had been satisfactorily completed
in respect of certificates issued to tenants under these Acts.
With one exception the certificates were issued.
Overcrowding.
The Sanitary Inspectors made systematic visits to houses
where overcrowding existed with a view to urging the families to
abate the nuisance either by their own efforts or by application to
the London County Council for accommodation on that Authority's
Housing Estates.
This procedure brought to the notice of the Public Health
Department, 650 cases of overcrowding which had been voluntarily
abated by the tenants finding alternative accommodation, or by
obtaining additional rooms in the house or as a result of a reduction
in the number in family since the survey took place.
There were 424 recommendations forwarded to the Valuer of
the London County Council for rehousing accommodation, and at
the end of the year 205 overcrowded families had been rehoused by
that Authority.
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