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Representing a population of 910 persons.
There were also 246 applications from families occupying
three or more rooms.
These 706 applications do not represent the total shortage,
as, in many instances, owing to inability to pay higher rents,
many of the poorer families do not trouble to apply.
It is unnecessary to further emphasise the question of overCrowding.
Under such conditions as, unfortunately, too frequently
exist, the ideals of Preventive Medicine are impossible,
and I am led to wonder how, in many instances, the occupants
keep fit at all in their sordid atmospheres of social and moral
destitution.
The causes of overcrowding appear to be threefold:—
(a) Rate of building not consistent with increase of
population;
(b) Gradual encroachment of surplus population from
adjoining districts. This is unavoidable in the
, extension of the greater London area;
(c) Poverty.
(III) FITNESS OF HOUSES.
(a) The general standard of housing in the district is, on
whole, only fair.
Of an estimated number of 7,613 dwellings, 630 are
unfit in that they are worn out and beyond reconditioning,
Surroundings faulty, structures bad, rooms damp and
insufficiently lighted and ventilated, with an almost general