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Regulations made by Local Authority in force in District:—
*Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops (Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885, s. 13).
Small Holdings and Allotment Act, 1908.
*Relating to underground sleeping rooms, Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909,
s. 17 (7).
*These are administered wholly or partly by the Health Committee.
The unstarred are administered by other Committees of the Council.
4. Arrangements for Chemical and Bacteriological Work During the Year 1919, and Their Results
(Including Examinations of Material for Detection of Tubercle Bacilli).
Any Report by the Public Analyst which it may be Considered Desirable to Append.
This is dealt with in the section relating to Infectious Diseases generally.
The work of the public analyst is controlled by the Middlesex County Council.
7. OTHER SERVICES.
Information Should be Given or any Important Points in which the Work of the Council is related
to or is in Co-operation with the Medical and Ancillary Services of National Health Insurance, or of
the Voluntary Hospitals, or of the Poor Law, or of other Agencies.
No information is available on this heading.
8. HOUSING.
(I.) General Housing Conditions in the District.
(1) Number of houses—total number ; number for the working classes ; new houses for the working
classes erected during the year, or in course of erection.
(2) Population—with information as to any important changes during the year or anticipated in
the future.
(3) (a) Extent of shortage or excess of houses, and (b) Measures taken or contemplated to meet
any shortage.
(1) Number of houses:—
The total number of occupiable houses in Willesden at Midsummer'
1919, was 23,537. Of this number 8,708 or 37 per cent. are houses in the
poorer district occupied by two, three, four or more families, generally
of the labouring or of the artizan class.
A class of house much in evidence is that let in two flats to families
of skilled artizans, clerks, etc. If this latter class comes within the
definition of " working class population "the total number of houses
for the working classes is increased by 11,533, making a total of 20,241.
(2) Population:—
For information relating to population, see Table No. 4.
(3) Shortage of houses
(a) About the year 1911 building operations in Willesden commenced to
decline, and since 1915 have ceased altogether. With the exception
of four houses of the Bungalow type no other buildings for human
habitation have been erected during the year, neither are there
any in course of erection suitable for the working classes.
(b) The Council have prepared a scheme for the erection of 610 houses
on a portion of the Brentfield Estate, Neasden.
Arising out of (a) "The shortage or excess of houses," it is of interest to note the
results of the last enumeration by the Health Department of houses in Willesden at
Midsummer 1919, as follows:—
The total number of empty houses was 121. Of this number:—
(a) 30 were shop premises.
(b) 43, large houses.
(c) 9, medium sized houses.
(d) 39 small houses or tenements over stables.
Of the 30 shop premises, the rooms over shops are not generally available until
the shops are let.