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On the other hand, 32 Council houses had become overcrowded
through increase in family, increase in ages of children, or other
causes.
Non-Council Houses.
By removal 37
By marriage of children, or girls going into
domestic service 47
By deaths 3
Total 87
On the other hand, 35 fresh cases of overcrowding have arisen
due to increase in size of families, children attaining adult age, or
other causes.
On January 1st, 1937, overcrowding became a statutory offence,
and overcrowding due to people entering new houses should not
arise during 1937.
The Act required that landlords of working-class houses should
state in the rent book or similar document the permitted number
of persons allowed to occupy each separate dwelling, and landlords
are entitled to obtain such information from the Council.
At the end of 1936 some 8,000 houses had been measured in
order that landlords might obtain this information. There still
remained, however, some 1,500 houses to be measured, and during
the early months of 1937 further applications from landlords were
still being received.
The programme for 1937 consists in supplying this information,
abating overcrowding by transfer and the offer of Council houses
to overcrowded families in non-Council houses, investigations at
the end of June and December to ascertain the state of overcrowding,
and a survey of the District to see that all working-class houses
have got the required information in the rent book or similar
document.
It has been deemed advisable to ascertain the extent to which
overcrowding can be abated in Enfield by the methods referred to
above before Council houses are built.