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With regard to the 37 cases of overcrowding revealed by
the original survey, 9 were relieved in 1936 and 5 during the past
year, leaving 23 cases still to be dealt with at the end of 1937,
namely:-
Four families of five, requiring Three Bed Non.-Parlour Type
of house, with a superficial area of 760 square feet.
Five families of seven, requiring Four Bedroom Non-Parlour
house of a superficial area of about 1,050 square feet.
Eight families of eight, requiring Four Bed Parlour type
with a superficial area of approximately 1,130 square feet.
Four families of nine in Four Bedroom Parlour houses
slightly larger than for eight persons.
One family of ten and one family of eleven in Five Bedroom
Non-Parlour houses.
Applications for Council Houses.
These numbered 138 at the end of the year, and included in
this total are eleven families to bo removed from Barnet Barracks
which are being converted for occupation by Aged Persons.
The Grange Estate upon which it is proposed to build 110
houses will provide for the majority of these applicants including
the cases of overcrowding where the families are only five in number,
also the families of seven can be accommodated in existing three
bedroom parlour houses by using the parlour as a fourth bedroom, and
so constituting a four bedroom non-parlour house, as vacancies occur.
The question of housing the families of eight, nine, ten
and eleven have still to be dealt with as the Council have no houses
of the types required on their Housing Estates.
PETROLEUM CONSOLIDATION ACT 1928.
There are thirty-three persons licenced to store petroleum
upon tho Register, as against twenty-nine last year. The licences
are for varying quantities from 100 gallons to 6,000 gallons.