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Town Hall,
Dyne Road,
Kilburn, N.W.6.
2nd July, 1935.
TO THE BOROUGH ENGINEER.
MEMORANDUM.
Disinfestation of Furniture and Disinfection of Bedding.
I note the request which you have received from the Medical Officer of Health for certain
information in connection with the above matter.
The particular question which you have passed to me is, obviously, most difficult to answer,
as the number of families about to enter Council houses or flats naturally varies from day to day,
as tenants are taken from the list selected by the Sub-Committee and placed in the properties as they
become vacant, or completed.
However, I think that the following figures will assist the Medical Officer in his report:—
Number of selected tenants to-day awaiting allocation of houses or flats:—
(a) Houses 60
(b) Flats 19
In addition to these figures a number of transfers from large type houses to small type houses,
or from flats to houses, or vice versa, are always being effected.
The following figures may also be of assistance as they refer to the number of houses and flats
let and the number of transfers effected between April, 1933, and April, 1935:—
Number of families on the waiting list accommodated in:—
(a) Houses 122
(b) Flats 127
249
Transfers—
into Houses 77
into Flats 51
128
377
The statement, contained in the Medical Officer's question, "These families, the Committee
said should be disinfested," is not quite correct. The Committee recommended that "Where,
in the opinion of the Council, such an action is necessary, prospective tenants for the Council's existing
Estates be required to submit their effects for disinfection and disinfestation."
(Signed) E. A. PRATT,
Town Clerk.
APPENDIX O.
Submitted to the Hospital Sub-Committee on July 24th, 1935.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health Centre (2).
To bring this Centre up to date certain services not now provided at this Centre are required
together with certain extensions of existing services.