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Reeces Place—9 and 10 (2 houses).
Church Street, Greenwich, 81 and 83 (2 houses).
Billingsgate Street—2 and 4 (2 houses).
Floyd Road—No. 81.
Nevada Street—No. 7.
Crane Street—No. 9.
In addition to reconditioning (Section 17) there is a considerable
number of houses in the Borough which can be dealt with under
Section 19, Housing Act, 1930 (demolition) but until much more
alternative accommodation is available no useful purpose would be
served by making demolition orders.
Further details of the work done under Part 2 of the Housing
Act, 1930, will be found in the following table supplied by the
Housing Inspector, whose appointment was made permanent in July,
1934.

Overcrowding.—Overcrowding is common and the worst
instances of gross overcrowding continue to be reported to the Public
Health Committee and forwarded to the Housing Committee for
preferential treatment, but owing to the already long waiting list
of applicants for Council houses little can be done. In addition
I have during the year recommended on health grounds 10 cases to
the London County Council and 20 cases to the Borough Council.
The number of instances known officially to have been overcrowded
was 81, of which 70 were remedied.
The grossly overcrowded house is generally occupied by a
very poor type of tenant who neither attempts nor desires to obtain
other accommodation. A record is kept of these overcrowded houses
and as soon as any particular case is relieved, a cautionary letter is
sent and the owner notified that the house or rooms must not be