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Recommendations.
1947
1948
1949
1950
Cases recommended to L.C.C. on grounds
of Tuberculosis 101 136 51 47
Cases recommended to L.C.C. on other
medical grounds 48 69 101 40
Cases recommended to Southwark
Borough Council on medical grounds 24 92 107 100
Total cases recommended 173 297 259 187
Rehoused.
1947
1948
1949
1950
Cases rehoused by L.C.C. on grounds of
Tuberculosis 33 49 43 32
Cases rehoused by L.C.C. on other medical
grounds 16 28 48 34
Cases rehoused by Southwark Borough
Council on grounds of Tuberculosis 19 4 — 2
Cases rehoused by Southwark Borough
Council on other medical grounds 6 22 24 31
Cases rehoused by other authorities on
grounds of Tuberculosis — — — 1
Total cases rehoused 74 103 115 100
Overcrowding
In overcrowding, also, there has been an increase in the new
cases reported but a decrease in those abated. Overcrowding
is sometimes created in order to gain priority rehousing, but the
most careful investigations are made to ensure that such cases
are not recommended. Whilst wilful overcrowding renders
the offender liable to prosecution, it is not considered practicable
to make any prosecutions in view of the extreme shortage of
accommodation.
Overcrowding is therefore regarded not so much from the
legal aspect as from the social circumstances which cause it.
Increases in the ages of children constitutes legitimate overcrowding
and recommendation is accordingly made. Cases
where a member of a family marries and brings his or her partner
to live with the parents is strictly illegal but recommendations
are usually given as young married couples have little opportunity
of avoiding this course. Careful enquiries are made in
instances of overcrowding where parents permit married
children with their families to come from the provinces to live
with them, or where a married couple take up residence in a
dwelling and later bring their children to live with them ; where
it is evident that these conditions are unavoidable or there is
domestic hardship, recommendations are submitted. Similar
assistance is given to newly married couples living with one or
the other's parents-in-law, where domestic friction is established
and where the families are living separately in overcrowded
conditions.