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(II) Overcrowding.
(1) Extent.—There are 20 cases in this district of
bad overcrowding, divided amongst the five parishes, as
follows:—
Edgware 3
Little Stanmore 2
Great Stanmore 5
Harrow Weald 4
Pinner 6
There are a good many other cases of overcrowding
of a lesser degree.
(2) Causes.—The main cause of this overcrowding
is the shortage of working-class houses. Very few have
been built since 1914 or even earlier.
(3) Measures Suggested.—The Council, as already
reported, contemplate building at least 200 cottages in
the district, and in allotting tenants preference will be
given to those people at present living in the overcrowded
cottages.
(4) Principal Cases of Overcrowding and Action
Taken.—(a) Man, wife and 5 children living in house
consisting of kitchen, wash-house and one small bedroom;
(b) man, wife and 9 children living in kitchen,
scullery and two small bedrooms; (c) man, wife and 5
children, girl lodger and a baby, in 2 small living rooms
and 2 small bedrooms; (d) man, wife and 9 children
(ages ranging from 20 years to 5 years) in. two small
living rooms and 2 small bedrooms; (e) man, wife and
10 children in similar house to case (d); (f) man, wife,
2 boys (17 and 14 years), a girl aged 20 years, also a
married daughter and her baby in kitchen, scullery and
2 small bedrooms; (g) man, wife and 5 children in two
living rooms and one bedroom; (h) man, wife, grown-up
son and two grown-up daughters in a living room, scullery
and one bedroom; (i) a family consisting of 6 adult
persons and four children in two living rooms, scullery
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