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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Orpington 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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3. Total number of families re-housed during 1960 in
(a) 18 (b) Nil (c) 11
4. Number of families on waiting list at 31st December, 1960, in
various categories:—
(a) Families in urgent need of other accommodation 101
(b) Families whose applications require early consideration 265
(c) Families whose applications are less urgent 356
722
(d) Families with varying degrees of housing need 370
5. Number of families on waiting list living in overcrowded conditions ;
no figures are kept as to the extent of statutory overcrowding,
but about 366 of the families included in 4 above are living in
crowded conditions.