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These various enquiries having been completed, what remained to be done was
mainly clerical and involved the preparation of special forms and returns for the
London County Council.
Before any description of these or of the Form C of the London County Council
is given' it may be interesting to summarize the results obtained by the enumerators
and survey assistants. First it should be noted that in the enumeration on Form A
and the survey on Form B the figures given represent tenements and not families
and that a "structurally separate tenement "in many cases houses more than
one family. Actually of the families enumerated on Form A the "not overcrowded"
numbered 21,178. Those included in the columns headed "doubtful overcrowding"
and " overcrowded " numbered 3,022 and 1,245 respectively.
The surveys on Form B revealed that the number of families "not overcrowded"
was 5,762 and of "overcrowded "815. The number of rooms measured by the
survey assistants was 13,551.
It was not until the 20th November, 1935, that it was learned from the London
County Council that the results of the Survey and the grouping to be furnished on
Form C were to be on a Ward basis. Prior to this, as the figures given above reveal,
the details were dealt with on an inspectorial district basis. A complete recasting
of the forms into Ward groups became necessary in order that details might be
furnished under the following heads on Form C :—
1. The total number of dwellings belonging to the Borough Council in the
Borough.
2. The total number of dwellings belonging to the London County Council in
the Borough.
3. The total number of dwellings belonging to any other local authority in
the borough.
4. The total number of dwellings in each ward in the borough, including any
dwellings in that ward belonging to the Borough Council or the County
Council (a separate form for each ward).
5. The total number of dwellings in the borough as a whole, including those
of the Borough Council and the County Council.
In addition the County Council sought particulars on separate forms in respect
of each of the London County Council's estates in the borough and of each of the
Borough Council's estates, together with a statement showing the total population
(actual, not " equivalent ") on each estate.