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do the best they can in each case. During the year 8 such
recommendations were made to the Housing Estates Manager.
The remainder of the cases were found to be living in circumstances
which were not considered sufficiently necessitous to
recommend.
Although the construction of new homes by the Borough
Council and the London County Council continued, the
number of families on the Council's waiting list at the end
of the year was 7,456.

I am informed by the Director of Housing and Valuer of
the London County Council that since the 1st July, 1945, 1,378
families living in this Borough have been accommodated by
the County Council and, in addition, 955 of the Council's
tenants resident in Hammersmith have been transferred to
other accommodation making a total of 2,333 families rehoused
by the senior authority.
Overcrowding (Section 61)
Section 61 of the Housing Act, 1936, provides that a local
authority may, on the application of the occupier or intending
occupier of a dwelling house in their district, grant him a
licence authorising him to permit such number of persons in
excess of the permitted number as may be specified in the
licence to sleep in the house.
During the year four such licences were granted, the
grounds generally speaking being natural increase in the
number of tenants.
Slum Clearance
During the year it was announced that the Minister of
Local Government and Planning had agreed to Slum Clearance
Schemes being undertaken in the County of London by the
County Council and the Metropolitan Borough Councils
on the basis of approximately 3,000 houses per year for the
next five years.
The Borough Council announced its intention to designate
Latimer Mews as a Clearance Area on my recommendation.
Other particulars relating to housing will be found on
reference to the table in the Statistical Supplement.