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Barnet 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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house, with, a superficial area of 760 square feet.
Two families of 6 and three families of seven, requiring Four
Bedroom Non-Parlour house of a superficial area of about 1,050
square feet.
Five families of eight, requiring Four Bed Parlour type
with a superficial area of approximately 1,130 square feet.
Two families of nine in Four Bedroom Parlour houses slightly
larger than for eight persons.
Two families of ten and one family of eleven in Five Bedroom
Non-Parlour houses.
Applications for Council Houses,
These numbered 193 at the end of the year, and included in
this total are nine families to be removed from Barnet Barracks
which are being converted for occupation by Aged Persons,
The Grange Estate upon which is being built 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.
To meet the requirements of families of eight, nine, ten and
eleven, four and five bedroom houses are shortly to be erected on
Housing land on lays Lane.
PETROLEUM CONSOLIDATION ACT 1928.
There are thirty-five persons licenced to store petroleum
upon the Register, as against thirty-three last year. The
licences are for varying quantities from 100 gallons to 6,000
gallons.
The total quantity of petroleum spirit which may be kept in
the various stores is 36,800 gallons, as against 31,610 gallons
last year.
47 inspections were made, but there was no serious breach
of Regulations to report,