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Overcrowding.—The number of complaints of overcrowding
received during the year was 445. These were investigated by the
Sanitary Inspectors and 128 were found to be overcrowded according
to the standards laid down by the Housing Act 1936. Eighty-seven
of these cases were granted new accommodation on the L.C.C.
Housing Estates.
Housing Act, 1936.—Action taken during 1947 with regard to
individual houses (closing orders made):—
Section 11 Section 12 (Underground rooms)
19, Lansdowne Road 15, Vanbrugh Park
40, Point Hill 72, Beaconsfield Road
4, Topham Place 48, Point Hill
48, Coldbath Street
1, Endeavour Buildings
17, Sigismund Street
19, Sigismund Street
1 and 2, Armstrong Gardens
3, Rolfe Road
1, 7, 9 and 11, Sigismund Street.