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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
Hendon 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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"The Council has continued to give earnest attention
to the rehousing of families living under inadequate housing
conditions. During the course of the past twelve
months 324 families have been rehoused in Council Houses,
but even so the number of housing applicants requiring
alternative accommodation continues to increase, and the
number still awaiting rehousing shows an increase over
last year's figures.
A feature of the past year has been the number of
transfers arranged whereby families not fully occupying
houses have been moved to smaller property thus making the
larger type house available for the bigger families.
The demand from evicted families still continues to
be heavy, and although 64 such families have been offered
emergency accommodation in Half-Way Houses during
the year, it has been impossible to assist in very many
cases.
The following table sets out the number of housing applicants assisted during the year ending 31st December, 1949:—
| 1. | Number of families rehoused into Permanent Accommodation:— | |
| (a) Pre-War Houses | 56 | |
| (b) Post-War Houses | 247 | |
| (c) Temporarv Bungalows | 21 | |
| 324 | ||
| 2. | Transfers arranged to relieve overcrowd-ding on Council Estates | 102 |
| 3. | Number of families rehoused into Requisitioned Property | 69 |
| 4. | Number of homeless families given emergency accommodation in Half-Way Houses | 64" |