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Abatement of Overcrowding.
A.—Number of Dwellings Overcrowded at end of 1936 3,775
Number of families dwelling therein 3,775
Number of persons dwelling therein 19,215½
B.—Number of New Cases of Overcrowding Reported
During the Year :—
105 cases—493 persons concerned.
C.—(1) Number of Cases of Overcrowding Relieved
During the Year :—
County Council 199
Borough Council 5 211
Otherwise relieved 7
(2) Number of Persons Concerned in such Cases :—
County Council 992
Borough Council 31½ 1,075½
Otherwise 52
D.—-Particulars of any cases in which Dwelling-houses
have become Overcrowded after the L.A. have
taken steps for the Abatement of Overcrowding Nil
Lambeth was included in the Schedule to the Housing Act 1935,
(Operation of Overcrowding Provisions) Order (No. 4), 1936, in
which the appointed day for the purposes of section 6 of the Act
(which provides for entry in rent books or similar documents of a
summary in the prescribed form of certain provisions of the Act
relating to overcrowding) is January 1st, 1937, and the appointed
day for the purposes of sections 3 and 8 (which contain provisions
relating to offences in relation to overcrowding) and sections 4 and
68 of the Act is July 1st, 1937.
In order to obtain the information for which application may be
made by owners and others, the Council decided to employ two
temporary survey assistants in December who were engaged in
preparing the ground for the sixteen other temporary survey
assistants and clerks who were employed by arrangement with the
County Council in 1937.