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GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Housing
The Council has set aside a small number of dwellings for the rehousing of families on
purely medical grounds.The following table shows the cases dealt with in the five years
the scheme has been in operation in its present form:
1957 1958 1959 I960 1961
Tuberculous persons
Recommendations received 421 321 275 232 224
Nominated for rehousing 185 151 185 209 139
Recommendations not qualifying for
rehousing 135 132 114 93 20
Under consideration at end of year 101 139 115 45 110
Persons with severe medical conditions
Recommendations received 2,484 2,474 2,689 3,357 2,570
Nominated for rehousing 226 478 418 607 164
Recommendations not qualifying for
rehousing 1,904 1,617 1,951 2,503 1,791
Under consideration at end of year .. .. 354 733 1,053 1,300 1,915
Work in connection with unfit houses during the past five years is summarised below:
1957 1958 1959 1960 1961
Slum clearance
Areas represented as unfit for human habitation.. 90 77 27 48 34
Houses in such areas 2,409 1,830 660 1,356 932
Areas surveyed but not represented by the end of
the year 81 11 13 39 90
Houses in such areas 2,004 312 641 1,291 2,869
Public local inquiries 28 36 37 42 12
Informal hearings 4 2 1 1 4
Orders confirmed) after inquiry or hearing 45 33 42 41 27
(ii) without inquiry or hearing (no objection
received) 13 14 28 15 2
Orders not confirmed by Minister 1 1 3 1 -
Confirmed order quashed on appeal to High
Court - - - - 1
Improvement grants
Surveys following applications to the Council .. 68 119 160 1,178 309
Searches following applications to metropolitan
borough councils 158 103 346 572 595
Dangerous structures
Premises scheduled as dangerous—searches made 1,094 1,229 1,013 * *
* The functions with regard to dangerous structures were, by the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1958, transferred to the metropolitan borough councils as from 1 January, 1960.
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Public Health Laboratory
The facilities at the Medical Research Council's Public Health Laboratory at the County
Hall and the close co-operation with its staff have continued to be of great value.
Milk sampling
The following table shows the results of tests during the year on samples taken of milk
arriving in London (the figures in brackets are those for 1960):
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