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89
Parents 7
Children 4
Uncle 1
Aunt 5
Others (sisters-in-law, grandmother,
brother-in-law) 3
Sisters 2
Multiple Cases.
There were certain instances in which more than 1 case actually
co-existed in a house at the same time. In one family five cases were
actually in being at the same time out of a family of 8.
Housing.
I have noted that the average accommodation was of a reasonable
nature. It is, however, very difficult to accord high priority to a
young married couple, one of whom suffers from tubercle if. for example,
on marriage they immediately take up residence in a house which is
already either near to overcrowded or overcrowded. I am in no way
minimising the difficulties of securing accommodation but these difficulties
must surely be more manifest when children also are involved.
It does happen on occasion that no sooner has one family been rehoused
from an overcrowded house than their place is taken by a new
family unit from within the same parent family and the obligation
of the Council to keep re-housing family after family on this basis must
surely in fairness to other applicants be limited.
Residence within the district.
A note might reasonably be made of certain examples of notifications
which have really no very direct link in practice with this district
although they fall to be registered by us. One such notification resided
in temporary accommodation within the district; one had been in
a mental home (not in Hornchurch) since 1934; one appeared to have
used an accommodation address in the district; two were hospital
employees within the district; one was in a children's home within
the district and one had been in the Services for many years.