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There are two camps of Fruit Pickers' Huts which were in use
during the year and of which 13 inspections were made.
There is an increasing use being made of moveable dwellings
(caravans, etc.) by persons other than of the so-called gipsy type, for
the purposes of permanent housing, owing to the restrictions made on
private building and to the present-day high costs and the shortage of
houses generally. Many families prefer living in a caravan to sharing
limited accommodation in a house built for one family.
The powers under the Public Health Acts to control permanent
caravan sites and moveable dwellings are very limited, and it has now
become more a matter of applying, in the early stages of their
establishment, the provisions of the Town Planning Acts.
Overcrowding.
The position, so far as is known with regard to overcrowding as
defined in the Housing Act, 1936, is shown in the following table: —