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Disinfecting Staff—
J. Forrest. A. Clay
F. Mears. T. Packham.
F. Stevens (Motor Driver).
Caretaker at Cleansing Station—
Mrs. E. Robinson.
Mortuary Keeper—
G. W. Moss.
The whole of the Staff of the Department are whole time
Officers, with the exception of those marked †.
Full particulars as to qualifications of the Staff are given in the
Annual Report for 1922.
*Contributions made in respect of salaries of above Officers, under
Public Health Acts or by Exchequer Grants.
SECTION 9.
HOUSING.
The Housing conditions generally remain very much the same
as they have been for many years past.
The Department still continues to hear of very many cases of
overcrowding; cases of 3 and 4 persons eating, living, and sleeping
in one room being common, and it is only when we come to the
more gross cases still, i.e., 6, and 7 in one room or where grown up
boys sleep at one end of the bed and adult girls at the other end with
the father and mother in the same room that cases are reported to
the Public Health Committee and by them sent on to the Housing
Committee with a view to that Committee being given an opportunity
of providing accommodation for the family in one of the
Council's houses if possible. The difficulty is that so frequently
persons living under these conditions are for various reasons found
to be unsuitable as tenants for the Council's new houses.
The unhealthy areas which have been scheduled and represented
to the London County Council are still in as bad a condition
and as thickly populated as ever. There are, however, grounds for
hoping that one of the areas, viz., that in St. Nicholas' Ward, will be