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families, were passed to the Borough Engineer for consideration
regarding housing accommodation. This, of course, is only
a reflection of the fact that housing conditions in Wembley are
good.
It may well be, however, that the Borough Council would
find, on occasion, they would be better able to consider the
tuberculous family applying for a Council house, were the
County Council enabled to reimburse any additional expenditure
in excess of that incurred in the provision of houses for the
working classes under the Housing Acts, but it should be clearly
understood that no definite house, much less a group of houses,
however small, should be designated for the tuberculous. There
is no special attribute of a house making it particularly appropriate
for a tuberculous person. The fundamentals are—good
aspect, good light and ventilation, etc. and enough bedrooms for
appropriate separation of the infected individual as regards
sleeping accommodation. These points, of course, are no more
than are applicable to any well-sited, well planned and constructed
house, but it is pertinent to add that the presence of a
tuberculous person in a household may make appropriate sleeping
arrangements impossible—the statutory definition of "overcrowding"
being of no help in this regard.
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