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Harrow 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]

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Table: The following table was submitted as showing the manner in which the overcrowdingin the houses occurred and the number of the various types of houses required to providealternative accommodation of such a nature that the transferred families would nolonger be overcrowded.

The following table was submitted as showing the manner in which the overcrowding

in the houses occurred and the number of the various types of houses required to provide

alternative accommodation of such a nature that the transferred families would no

longer be overcrowded.

Houses not owned by Local Authority.Overcrowded by Houses required:
Units.Bedrooms:
½11½1½234 and over.
A.Single large families.
(a) Overcrowding will be abated within 12 months41l---6
(b) Overcrowded and no movement of occupants anticipated47242-15
(c) Owner/occupier houses overcrowded312---6
B.Houses with lodger.
(a) Relative212—2-2
(b) Non-relative7411238
C.Houses let to two families by owner1891591311
D.Houses sub-let by occupier.
(a) Occupier overcrowded-3-232-
(b) Sub-tenant overcrowded6---231
Council Houses.Overcrowded by Units:Houses required: Bedrooms:
½11½1½234 and over..
A.Single families.
(a) Overcrowding will be abated within 12 months-3----3
(6) Overcrowded and no movement of occupants anticipated53l6--15
B.Family with lodger.
(a) Relative1----—1
(b) Non-relative1-----1

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With regard to certain of these categories the Committee
decided that no provision of new houses need be made, namely, for
those in which the overcrowding would, in the ordinary course of
events, be abated within twelve months; those in which the overcrowding
arose from the presence of a "non-relative lodger"; and
those houses occupied by their owners. It was further decided
that in view of the existence in this district of many houses of the
smaller type which were unoccupied, there was no necessity for
the Council to consider the erection of houses of this size. This,
then, reduced the number of houses which the Council would need
to erect to the forty-four houses of four or more than four bedrooms.
Included, however, in the houses in the possession of the Council