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Natural fluoride content of water supplies:-
Colne Valley Water Company: Fluoride content — Nil
Metropolitan Water Hoard: Fluoride content — 0.15 parts per million.
The water supplied to Hendon is deficient in fluoride and dental decay is more
prevalent here than in those areas where the element is present in optimum quantity.
HOUSING
I am indebted to the Housing Officer for the following observations and statistics
relevant to the housing situation.
"Despite the limitations imposed by the small number of new dwellings erected
during 1959 and the necessity to rehouse families from properties scheduled for
demolition under redevelopment schemes, progress has been maintained in housing by
means of transfers, re-letting of vacated premises and the purchase of private houses
which have added to the pool of permanent dwellings under Council control. The total
number of pre-war and post-war dwellings erected by the Council up to 31st December
1959 was 4,092 and in addition some 120 additional units of accommodation have now
been provided in acquired premises.
The first block of eleven flats forming part of the primary phase in the scheme
for the redevelopment of the New rent Street area was completed and let during
September 1959. This scheme of redevelopment will be carried out in three phases
over a period of three years and will accommodate 188 families in two eleven storey
and nine five storey blocks of flats incorporating the most modern features of
design, including electric underfloor heating.
Outside of areas selected for redevelopment there have been properties in
advanced stages of disrepair where it has not proved practicable to restore them and
in these instances it has been the policy of the Council to rehouse the occupants to
more suitable dwellings and to effect the closing or demolition of the unfit dwellings.
The release of requisitioned properties in 1958 anticipated the close of this
wartime measure in the current year and by the 31st December last only three dwellings
were under Council requisition out of several hundreds requisitioned during and
immediately following the war years. The majority of the occupants of requisitioned
properties have been rehoused by the Council but in some instances they have been
accepted as statutory tenants by the owners of the property.
Movement of population to the New and Expanded Towns has remained steady and
where some falling off has occurred in those towns in advanced stages of completion
this has been off-set by the commencement of expansion in other localities. The
Council have initiated or supported the nomination of several thousands of Hendon
residents during the past ten years to New and Expanded Towns and by so doing have
either directly contributed to the relief of over-crowded conditions or have secured
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