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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1935.
each family equivalent to two adults or more over the permitted
number.
The result of the Survey indicates that while there is a certain
amount of overcrowding in the Borough, the number of families
affected is not by any means excessive, and there should be no
great difficulty in providing the comparatively small amount of
re-housing accommodation required.
In estimating the amount of additional accommodation
required, allowance has to be made for utilising the accommodation
which will be vacated by overcrowded families when they are
re-housed. When this is done it is found that the number of new
dwellings required will be considerably less than the actual number
disclosed as overcrowded.
The London County Council, who have co-ordinated the
results of the survey for the whole of London, arrived at a formula
for determining the amount of new accommodation which will
be required to re-house overcrowded families, after the necessary
adjustments have been made. Ascertained by this method,
the number of new dwellings required in Wandsworth is found
to be 520.
The temporary staff engaged to carry out the overcrowding
Survey was as follows:—40 enumerators, 4 supervisors, 15 survey
assistants and 10 clerks. The period for which they were engaged
varied from five to eight weeks.