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In addition, the Borough Council are the owners of Crawford Place Dwellings,
which were constructed in 1902 at an approximate cost of £18,000, and comprise
52 flats and provide housing accommodation of 182 persons.
Housing Act, 1935—Overcrowding Survey.
Although the year 1935 did not see the completion of the Overcrowding Survey
of the Borough, so far as the compilation of the final figures and estimates for the
abatement of overcrowding was concerned, a great deal of the work was done
between 1st November, 1935, and the end of December.
It seems proper, therefore, that some reference should be made to it in the
Annual Report for 1935, and the following extract from a report submitted to the
Housing Committee will be found to contain a considerable amount of interesting
information.
In accordance with instructions, the Survey was begun on the 1st November,
1935, and was carried out by the officers of the Public Health Department with
the assistance of a temporary staff of 12 enumerators for the purposes of Form A
(the enumeration form), 6 survey assistants-—later increased to 12—for the preparation
of Form B (the survey form) and 4 clerks. The sanitary inspectors acted as
supervisors in their own districts, the whole of the work being co-ordinated by
members of the Public Health clerical staff under the direction of the Medical Officer
of Health. The period of employment of the enumerators was 4 to 5 weeks, each
receiving £3 5s. Od. per week. The surveying work occupied 4 weeks and each
individual engaged upon it received £4 0s. Od. per week. The clerical assistants
were employed throughout the whole period of the Survey and completed their
work on the 20th January, 1936, the remuneration being £2 15s. Od. per week.
The estimated cost of the Survey (half of which is to be borne by the London
County Council) was £570. The amount actually expended was £489 16s. 8d.
Enumeration Form A.
The enumeration for the purposes of Form A, to decide on information obtained
as to number of occupants and, on the basis of the scales set out in the Act (see
Tables I and II attached) as to the number of houses that might be written off
as "not overcrowded" or classed as "overcrowded" and therefore liable to be
"surveyed," was commenced on the 1st November and completed by the 29th
November . The number of structurally separate dwellings to be inspected was 9,454.
The analysis of these enumerations gave the following results :—

Survey Form B.
The premises surveyed on Form B were those marked on Form A as cases in
which there was "doubtful overcrowding" and numbered 2,576. The Survey
commenced on the 25th November, 1935, 6 survey assistants being engaged. Following
a request from the County Council that there should be a speeding up, the number
of survey assistants was increased to 12 as from the 9th December and by the
20th December the work, which included measuring up of rooms and the making
of fuller enquiries than those carried out for the purposes of Form A, was completed.