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With regard to the 37 cases of overcrowding revealed by the original survey,
9 were relieved in 1935 in 1937, 6 in 1938, and 6 during the past year. Owing
to age increases of children an additional 2 families have become overcrowded, so
that 13 cases still remain to be dealt with at the end of 1939, namely,
One family of four and one family of five requiring Three Bed Non
Parlour Type of house with a superficial area of 760 square feet.
One family of six and two families of seven requiring Four Bed Non
Parlour Type of house with a superficial area of about 1,050 square
feet.
Four families of eight, requiring Four Bed Parlour Type of house
with a superficial area of about 1,130 square feet.
Two families of nine in a Four Bedroom Parlour house slightly
larger than for eight persons.
One family of ten and one family of eleven in Five Bedroom NonParlour
houses.
Applications for Council Houses.
These numbered 89 at the end of the year, a substantial reduction on the 1938
figure, owing to the accommodation provided by the building of 110 houses on the
Grange Estate.
The transfer of families with young children from Barnet Barracks to houses
with three bedrooms is now complete. With two exceptions, all these flats have
now been converted for occupation by Aged Persons.
The scheme for building four and five bedroom houses on Housing land in Mays
Lane to meet the requirements of families of eight, nine, ten and eleven, had to
deferred on the outbreak of War.
PETROLEUM CONSOLIDATION ACT 1928.
There are thirty-four persons licenced to store petroleum upon the Register,
as against thirty-five 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 32,450 gallons, as against 36,800 gallons last year.
63 inspections were made, but there was ho serious breach of Regulations to
report.