View report page

Then comes John once more, and this time, quite frankly, he is in a temper.
It is ;uite possible he does not want to be in a bad temper, but the situation at
home is going from bad to worse and he has promised his wife that he will make
the rehousing people " do something about it."
The Health of Barking
SOCIAL CONDITIONS, STATISTICS AND GENERAL PROVISION
OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Housing.
John and Mary were much in love with one another and as in the case of
many other young couples, much could be written of their hopes and dreams
and how bravely they faced the world together. For the purposes of this narrative,
however, all that I will say is that they were married and when they came back from
their honeymoon they went to live with Mary's mother.

However, Mary soon found out that getting her name on the rehousing list was
one thing and having enough points to get a house was quite another. Further,
from he information given at the window, she realised there were many families
who were not nearly so well placed as she and John were.
The next thing we find is that John takes a half day from work to come to the
Rehousing Office—he says exactly the same things that Mary has said but in a
defin ely more emphatic manner because unless things can be changed his married
life is going to start out on the wrong foot. He realises his in-laws are quite nice
peop! but it is nevertheless true that he does not get on with them—he has married
Mar; not the family.
hen Mary comes back and this time she is in great trouble—she is going to
have baby. Her mother has said not only is it impossible for her to have the
baby >orn at home, but that she cannot see how John and Mary can go on living
in thk house after the baby is born.
HOUSING APPLICATIONS.
Number of names on the waiting
list at the beginning of the year
3,370
Number of names added to the list
962
Number of names removed from
the list
844
Number of names remaining on
the list at the end of the year
3,488
Page 3