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OVERCROPPING
(a) Houses in which the rooms were measured and the
permitted number ascertained 37
Number of visits to the above 46
" " houses in which the information has been
supplied to owners and occupiers 5
(b) Relief of Overcrowding
Number of cases investigated 87
„ „ „ found to be overcrowded and
referred to L.C.C. 57
(c) Preferential Housing on Grounds of Health
Number of cases investigated 28
" " " referred to L.C.C. 24
Prior to the war Stepney's population of approximately
200,000 was accommodated in some.34,000 separately rated housing
properties. The Borough was one of the most overcrowded in the
country.
During the War 7,040 houses were totally destroyed or
are fit only for demolition; 3,795 were seriously damaged and
uninhabitable but capable of repair by the carrying out of
major works of repair; 3,178 were seriously damaged but habitable;
and 15,278 were officially classified as slightly
damaged. Some houses were damaged as many as five or six times.
During 1945-46 500 pre-fabricated hutments were
erected by the Council on requisitioned sites as a temporary
measure. During 1945 the L.C.C. erected 19 bungalows.
Under the Council's requisitioning powers 2,696 houses
were recuisitioned for re-housing of the homeless and "families
inadequately housed."
Under the Council's housing schemes approximately
1,355 dwellings are planned so far, and it is hoped that the
first block of 31 flats will be. ready for opening towards the
end of 1946
V. INSPECTION SUPERVISION OP FOOD
Total number of inspections and re-inspections made
by the four Inspectors engaged in the supervision and inspection
of food amounted to 9,415.
Legal proceedings were taken out in 13 instances.
The quantity of foodstuffs dealt with as unfit for human consumption
during the year amounted to 42 tons under the Public
Health (Imported Food) Regulations, and 465 tons under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (see also Analyst's report).
1498 samples of food and drugs and 73 other samples were submitted
for analysis, assistance was also rendered by these
Inspectors to the Food Control Committee on Food Salvage, new
registrations, etc.
BASEMENT BAKEHOUSES
Of the 69 which were certified in 1903/4 under the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, only 23 remained.
VI. PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Other than Tuberculosis)
1,222 notifications were received during the year: Scarlet
Fever 157; Diphtheria 44; Puerperal Pyrexia 14; Puerperal
Fever 2; Erysipelas 33; Cerebrospinal Fever 6; Ophthalmia
Neonatorum 6; Polio-Myelitis 1; Malaria 4; Measles 725; Pneumonia
55; whooping Cough 96; Dysentery 76; Food Poisoning 1;
Typhus 1; Enteric 1; Smallpox 0.
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