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SECTION C
HOUSING
Rehousing
The Housing Estates Manager continues to co-operate with the
Health Department for advice on applicants with overcrowding or
medical problems. If overcrowding is found to exist by the District sanitary inspector, legal overcrowding is reported to the
Housing Manager of the London county council.
Applications for rehousing by the London County Council are
made to that Authority direct, and requests are received from them
through the Housing Estates Manager, for similar enquiries to be
made. in cases where there is medical evidence the Medical Officer
of Health to the London County council is responsible for allocating priorities on health grounds.
Reports are also asked for and supplied in regard to existing
overcrowding and sanitary conditions of premises.
Enquiries of this nature totalled 290 and of these 129 families were found to be living in overcrowded conditions.
Twenty-eight cases were recommended for rehousing on grounds
of health. In addition to the above, a recommendatian for rehousing
was made to the Borough council's Housing Department in cases where
the applicant represented a recently married family who were expecting a baby, or where there were young children already living
in unhygienic surroundings which are inadequate to maintain the
high level of health which is so vital to the family unit in its
early stages. in spite of the many claims made upon them, the Housing Department do the best they can in each case. During the year
six such recommendations were made to the Housing Estates Manager.

To make the above figures realistic it should be pointed out
that the figures for those rehoused are extremely unlikely to be
from recommendations of the same year.