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9
Social Conditions.
There has been little perceptible alteration in the general
conditions during the past year, with the exception of a great
extension in being and in prospect of large blocks of flats by the
County Council. Many expressions of dissatisfaction have been
heard from the inhabitants of clearance areas at the prospect of
being obliged to live in "the buildings." Many reasons were
mentioned in the Annual Report for 1934, which account for the
real dread experienced by the cottage dwellers when the approaching
transfer to blocks of flats becomes imminent, and when parental
control of children is lost from the moment they are outside the
flat door. This lack of control leads inevitably to mischievous
conduct which later tends to less pardonable lack of control, and
still later is undoubtedly one factor to which may be attributed the
increase of juvenile crime now so noticeable.