Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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Prior to During Total as at
1952 1952 ' Dec, 1952
(c) NOe of families
occupying 1 (c) 276
(Plus lodgers *)
3o Total Number of families rehoused during 1952:°
(a) 290 (b) Nil (c) Fluctuating
4© Number of families with a residential claim on this
authority on waiting list at 31©12©52 in various categories
(a) Families in urgent need of other
accommodation 228
(b) Families whose applications
require early consideration 193
(c) Families whose applications
are less urgent 693
(d) Families with varying degrees of housing
need but with no residential claim on this
Authority 676
It is not possible to give any accurate idea of the
number of families on the waiting list living in
ory overcrowded conditions,, but the families included in
Groups 4(a) 4 (b) and approximately 228 of Group 4 (d)
above may all be said to be living in crowded conditions©
Moveable Dwellings
During the year four licences were renewed embracing
a total of seventy two caravans and seventy tents For
the winter months two licences0 covering a total of thirteen
caravans were also, issued. Five licences were issued
to persons authorising the use of a caravan on individual
sites.
In all, one hundred and twenty visits of inspection
to the various sites were made by the Sanitary Inspectors