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The number of Underground Rooms found not to comply with
the requirements in the houses in the allocation above (2), (3) and (4),
totalled 93. They were found to exist in 42 premises. Of these
rooms 29 were found in 15 Tenement Houses.
Summary of Underground Room Register at 31 st December, 1939.
(1) Premises found to comply with Underground Room
Requirements 475
(2) Premises found not to comply but which can be made
to comply 516
(3) Premises found not to comply and cannot be made to
comply (i.e., Closure only alternative, action deferred
pending provision of satisfactory accommodation) 117
(4) Premises found which do not comply in minor details
only (no action contemplated) 14
(5) Premises found to be used for purposes other than for
human habitation, or unoccupied 64
1186
County Council Housing Estates.
The following figures relate to families removed to London
County Council Estates since 1927, through the action of the Borough
Council:—
Number of houses at the Wormholt Estate at the disposal
of the Borough Council by payment to the L.C.C. of a
yearly subsidy 62
Number of houses at the Watling Estate at the disposal
of the Borough Council under similar arrangements 38
Number of houses occupied under special arrangements
with the L.C.C. for relief of overcrowding, viz. :—
Watling estate 103
Other L.C.C. estates 40
Total 243