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and re-housed including transfers, casual voids, etc., amounted to
605. Of this number 61 were in respect of overcrowded casts and
5 in respect of closures under the Housing Act.
The Housing Department now has control of 2,481 Councilowned
units of accommodation, an increase of 401 over that of the
previous year.
At the end of the year, in addition to 104 occupied hutments, a
total of 1,019 properties giving 1,792 units of accommodation were
requisitioned by the Council in order to provide for persons rendered
homeless as a result of enemy action or who were otherwise inadequately
housed.
(b) London County Council.—-By 31st December, 1951, the
L.C.C. had provided alternative accommodation for a total of 333
Greenwich families of which 49 had been certified as overcrowded
cases. Of this figure, 239 were housed on L.C.C. housing estates
outside the Borough.
Overcrowding.—As a direct result of rehousing carried out by
the Housing departments of the Council and the County Council,
110 cases of overcrowding were abated during the year under review.
The number of unabated certified cases of overcrowding in the
Borough now amounts to 286.
During 1951, there was a substantial fall in the number of
complaints received concerning overcrowding, the year's figure of
148 shows a decline of 274 from that of the previous year. Each
complaint was investigated by the Sanitary Inspector concerned
and as a result of these investigations, 56 families were found to be
overcrowded according to the standards laid down by the Housing
Act, 1936, and were subsequently certified as such.