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Health Visiting.
Home Nursing.
Domestic Help.
Day Nurseries.
Vaccination and Immunisation.
These services are administered on an area basis, Area
No. 4 consisting of the Boroughs of Hendon and Finchley. An
Area Committee has been formed which acts as a SubCommittee
of the Public Health Committee of the County
Council and consists of representatives of the two Boroughs,
Middlesex County Council, certain professional bodies and
other persons with special knowledge of these services.
SECTION D:
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
HOUSING.
1 am indebted to the Housing Officer for the following
observations and statistics relevant to the housing situation
in the Borough during the year under review:—
" 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 125
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 advance over last year's figures.
The policy of transferring to smaller accommodation those
Council tenants who were living in accommodation in excess of
their requirements, has been continued during the past year.
By so doing it has been possible to make the larger types of
houses available for reletting to the bigger families, and so
relieved the overcrowding formerly experienced in such cases.
A feature of 1951 has been the number of Hendon families
who have been allocated houses in Hemel Hempstead and
Stevenage under the 'linked authority' scheme. By means of
the scheme 100 former Hendon families are now living and
working in one or other of the Expanded Towns.
The demand from evicted families continues to be heavy,
and although 51 such families have been offered emergency
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