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Inspection of Houses.
210 surveys were carried out under the Housing Acts, mostly following
receipt of an application from the owner or agent for a certificate of
particulars of the number of persons permitted to occupy the premises.
The total number of certificates issued since the coming into force of
these sections of the Act is 10,319. One house was inspected under the
Housing Regulations.

This shows that of the 34 cases known at the beginning of the year
and the 72 new cases learned of, 39 were abated, leaving the number of
premises overcrowded on December 31st, 1943 as 69. Of the 27 cases
re-housed 6 were provided with accommodation by the Council. Little
advantage was taken by these overcrowded families of the accommodation
made available for the release of requisitioned properties, only three, in
fact, actually availing themselves of the facilities.
Housing Act, 1936.
The houses included in the Broadway (Stanmore) Clearance Order,
1937, and the High Street, Stanmore, No. 2 Clearance Order, were
demolished during the year.
Of the Demolition Orders made in 1943 relating to nine properties,
appeals were lodged against the two relating to 16 Marlborough Hill
and 38, Shelley Road, appeals which had not been heard by the end of
the year.
Three of the seven other houses, namely, 21 and 37, Milton Road,
and 35, Shelley Road, have already been demolished, while 9 and 10
of the four houses 7, 8, 9, and 10, Burns Road, the subject of the remaining
Demolition Orders, are empty.
Circular 2845 of the Ministry of Health, issued in August, authorised
the release of houses requisitioned for the housing of bombed-out persons
for the use of families inadequately housed, the guiding principles in the
allocation being those considerations governing the selection of tenants
for houses on municipal housing estates. Section 85 of the Housing Act,
1936, was quoted. " In the selection of tenants, reasonable preference
is given to persons who are occupying insanitary or overcrowded houses,