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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Enfield 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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Families in Non-Council Dwellings.
| 148 were fully occupied. | |
| 888 could take ½ person. | |
| 718 | „ 1„ |
| 718 | „ 1½ persons. |
| 1,390 | „ 2„ |
| 518 | „ 2½„ |
| 1,624 | „ 3„ |
| 868 | „ 3½„ |
| 2,622 | „ 4„ |
| 885 | „ 4½„ |
| 2.573 | „ 5„ |
| 1,520 | „ 5½„ |
| 2,428 | „ 6„ |
| 616 | „ 6½„ |
| 430 | „ 7„ |
| 534 | „ 7½„ |
| 205 | „ 8„ |
| 84 | „ 8½„ |
| 180 | „ 9„ |
| 47 | „ 9½„ |
| 112 | „ 10„ |
| 62 | „ 10½„ |
| 75 | „ 11„ |
| 64 | „ 11½„ |
| 56 | „ 12„ |
| and 179 | „ 12½ to 37 persons. |
Dealing with Council houses alone, it became obvious that
whilst some of these houses were overcrowded, a considerable number
could house bigger families than those they contained.
The Council therefore determined that before building any
houses to abate overcrowding, steps should be taken to ascertain
the extent to which overcrowding could be abated by means of
transferring small families to small houses and large families to
large houses.
The Council also considered during the year the income of
tenants occupying Council houses, and resolved that where the
income of families living in such houses was over £5 10s. per week
the tenant should be asked to vacate his house unless he could satisfy
the Council that his circumstances were such that there would be
hardship if his tenancy were terminated.