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The Housing Committee after consideration of this report
expressed the opinion :—
(a) That it would not be practicable to redistribute as
many as 121 smaller overcrowded families in the houses
vacated by the larger overcrowded families, and that
probably a reasonable number to be considered capable
of being transferred would be 60, leaving 61 of these families
to be rehoused in addition to the 76 indicated by the Medical
Officer :
(b) That it is inadvisable to consider all the 123 vacant
houses as available, since at any time there will always be
a certain number of empty houses, and that only 60 vacant
houses should be calculated which means the addition of
a further 63 houses to the number of houses stated to be
required by the Medical Officer ; and
(c) That it is undesirable to build houses of the lowest
category required, namely those of three rooms, and that
the houses to be provided should be of four rooms and of
five rooms in equal numbers ;
and recommended the Council that the Minister of Health be
informed that 200 houses, half of four rooms and half of five rooms,
were necessary to meet the requirements of the overcrowded
families in the Borough. This recommendation was approved by
the Council.
BOROUGH OF EALING—PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Report on the Inspection of the Borough to ascertain
what dwelling-houses are overcrowded and on the result
of the Inspection.
Section 1, Housing Act, 1935.
On the 29th October I submitted a report on the steps to be
taken in order to carry out the inspection of the district under
Section 1 of the Housing Act, 1935, with a view to ascertaining
the amount of overcrowding and the amount of new accommodation
required to abate the overcrowding.