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(b) It has not been necessary to make any special arrangements for the gradual carrying out
of repairs. The Council do work in default and where desired allow repayment by instalments.
(c) All houses in the District have an internal water supply from the mains of the Metropolitan
Water Board.
(d) All houses have water closet accommodation within their own curtilage. Under the
Willesden Urban District Council Act, 1903, the Council are empowered to call upon owners to provide
proper and sufficient water closets ; this power is used whenever necessary.
5. Unhealthy Areas. No area was dealt with as an unhealthy area during the year.
6. Byelaws relating to Houses let in Lodgings, and to Tents, Vans, Sheds, etc. Byelaws
were made by the Urban District Council of Willesden with respect to houses intended or used
for occupation by the working classes and let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one
family, on the 26th July, 1927.
These were allowed by the Minister of Health on 18th April, 1928. Up to the present no staff
has been appointed to administer these byelaws.
With the exception of a van which halted for a few weeks, Willesden has not been troubled
by van dwellers. The necessity for byelaws relating to van dwellers has not arisen.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON HOUSING MATTERS NOT ALREADY COVERED.
7. One of the difficulties experienced in cases of overcrowding is to control vacated premises
from which the Council has removed a family, the owners frequently reletting the rooms at a higher
rental, thus creating similar conditions to those just remedied. New tenants to meet the increased
rentals resort to subletting.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.—There are 2 wholesale dealers, 198 retail milk purveyors, and 1 cowkeeper
in this district. Their premises and utensils are frequently inspected.
The following table shows the number of licences granted for the sale of graded milk under
the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1923, during the year 1930 :—

There were no refusals or revocations of licences under the Milk (Special Designations) Order,
1923, during the year.
One application for registration as a dairyman and for the registration of certain premises for
use as a dairy was refused ; the applicant failed to show that the public health would not be likely
to be endangered by the registration of the premises as a dairy.