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the release of accommodation suitable for reletting to other families. Hendon is
now 'linked' to eight New Towns and to four towns with programmes for expansion in
the Home Counties.
The Council have assisted in schemes introduced by private Housing Societies
and have thereby been enabled to nominate a proportion of the tenants in dwellings
so erected.
New applications for Council accommodation were received at the average rate of
45 per month during 1959 and it is notable that ten per cent of applications were
from persons of pensionable, or approaching pensionable, age. Provision of small
dwellings for elderly persons continues to be made by the Council but the number of
applicants requiring this type of accommodation on account of age or ill-health at
present greatly exceeds the supply and cases involving hardship from unsuitable or
poorly situated accommodation are known which will not be easily resolved.
The housing waiting list as at 31st December 1959 included 2,617 applications.
Applicants assisted in the course of the year were as follows;
(a) rehoused into permanent accommodation (pre-war) 24
(post-war) 62
86
(b) transfers to resolve cases of overcrowding or
underoccupation on Council estates, etc. 194"
PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTION
The following summary of the inspection work, together with a report on the
various duties performed by the Public Health Inspectors, has been submitted to me
by Mr.P.H.Day, Chief Public Health Inspector, who succeeded Mr.A.H.Smith when he
retired on 1st February, 1960.