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removing to the Estate, and for other necessary work to be carried
out by the Council's disinfecting staff. Full details of these means,
adopted for the prevention of infestation of the new Estate by bugs,
were set out in detail in my last Annual Report.
Hampstead Housing Association, Ltd.
This Association now manages 12 houses in the Borough, five
situated in Kelson Street, six in Palmerston Road and one in Netherwood
Street.
The Report submitted to the Seventh Ordinary General Meeting
held in June, 1935, states :—
" The houses belonging to the Association continue to give
satisfaction to the tenants. During the year there have been five
changes, but there has been no difficulty in finding new tenants.
The character for reasonable rents, clean and tidy rooms and
attention to small as well as to large repairs is well established in
the neighbourhood, and our regret is that it still seems impossible
to secure any other houses at a price that is at all reasonable."
Housing Act, 1935.
Overcrowding Survey.
Section 1 of the Housing Act, 1935, required every local authority
to make an inspection of its district with a view to ascertaining what
dwelling houses were overcrowded on the standard laid down in the
Act, and to prepare and submit to the Minister of Health a report
showing the result of the inspection and the number of new houses
required in order to abate the overcrowding disclosed.
The overcrowding standard.
The overcrowding standard laid down in the Act consists of two
parts. Section 2 (1) (a) provides that a dwelling house shall be
deemed to be overcrowded if the accommodation is such that any two
persons being ten years old or more, of opposite sexes and not being
persons living together as husband and wife, must sleep in the same
room. Section 2 (1) (b), in conjunction with Tables I and II in the
First Schedule to the Act, fixes, in relation to the number and size of
the rooms in any dwelling house, the maximum number of persons,
irrespective of sex, who may be permitted to sleep in that house at one
time.