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the Borough Surveyor for the construction of about seventy tenements have been
provisionally approved. It is hoped that during the year 1930 the site will be
acquired and the work of construction commenced.
Accommodation on L.C.C. Housing Estates.
In the year 1924 arrangements were made by the London County Council for
a certain number of houses on several of that Council's housing estates to be
available for applicants nominated and recommended by the Metropolitan Borough
Councils. The arrangement was primarily to secure reduction in overcrowding,
that is, to provide housing accommodation for families residing more than 2 per
room. It was, however, recognised that other cases of hardship existed and the
scheme was extended to include these. Applications for such accommodation
are submitted by residents in this Borough to the Public Health Department where
they are examined and before submission to the London County Council the
applicants are in all cases interviewed.
During the year 1929, 46 applications were submitted through the Public Health Department
to the London County Council for such accommodation. In connection with these, at
the date of the preparation of this report, five families have been accommodated; in three
cases the applicants refused the accommodation offered, in two cases the applications were
withdrawn, nine were refused by the London County Council and two obtained other accommodation.
The remainder are still under consideration. In addition to the families for whom
houses were provided, as mentioned above, notification was received during the year that
accommodation had been provided for 12 other families whose applications were submitted
in previous years.
This brings the total number of such cases from the Borough, for whom accommodation
has been provided on London County Council estates since the scheme came into operation,
up to 149 representing 63 per cent of the applications submitted.
HOUSING CONDITIONS.
Statistics.
Year Ended 31st December, 1929.
GENERAL.
(1) Estimated population 38,380
(2) General death rate . 15.6
(3) Death-rate from tuberculosis (all forms) 1.19
(4) Infantile mortality rate 74
*(5) Number of buildings containing dwellings (Census, 1921) 3,473
†(6) Number of separate dwellings (Census, 1921) 7,202
‡(6a) Number of working-class tenements (Census, 1921) 8,571
(7) Number of new working-class bouses erected Block —(15 tenements)
in course of construction
*"Buildings."—A structure wholly detached or separated from another by a party wall,
e.g.. a block of flats is one building.
+" Separate dwelling," i.e., having separate access to street or common landing or
staircase, e.g.. each flat in a block is a separate dwelling, but a private house not structurally
divided is a single unit whether occupied by one or more families.
J" Working-class tenements," i.e., separate occupations of one, two, three or four rooms
only.