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NEW HOUSES.
The Borough Engineer and Surveyor has supplied the following
information : —
Number of new houses erected during the year: —
(A) TOTAL, including numbers given
separately under (B) 703 houses
411 flats
(i) by the Local Authority 22 houses
(ii) by other Local Authorities Nil
(iii) by other bodies or persons 681 houses
411 flats
(B) with State assistance under the Housing Acts : —
(i) by the Local Authority 22 houses
(ii) by other bodies or persons Nil
Provision of Houses for Tuberculous Persons :—
The following figures were up to date on the 9th December
: —
(1) Number of notified cases of tuberculosis living in Council
Houses : —
(a) so living when first notified 20
(b) removed to a Council house at a date
after notification 7
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(2) Total number of cases notified and then on the
register (8/12/38) 573
(i.e. 4.71% of notified cases were living in
Council houses).
The opinion was expressed against the segregation of even
small numbers of cases of tuberculosis, for example, in houses
which might be built to house tuberculous persons by the Middlesex
County Council.
There are two reasons for this opinion. No justification
can be seen for such a segregation for the sake of the public
health, while, in addition, it is considered that such houses would
soon become stigmatised, causing unnecessary sentimental pain
to those suffering from tuberculosis.
The number of such cases in Wembley is really small. An
environmental form concerning all cases recently notified to
be suffering from tuberculosis is received, and from consideration
of these forms in 1937 two families, and in 1938 two other
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