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district such a scheme was prepared. In regard to some of those applicants
whose needs rested primarily on health grounds, however, other
arrangements were made. Particulars of these could be submitted by the
Medical Officer of Health to the Selection Sub-Committee. The three
groups were those living in overcrowded conditions, those families of
whom a member was suffering from open tuberculosis, and those families
living in condemned properties, whether the result of a demolition order
or of a clearance order. Last year the points scheme was altered, and
at the same time special provision was made for those living in overcrowded
conditions; the revised pointing made allowance for this. It was also
decided that one in six of the new houses built should be allotted to those
whose needs rested primarily on the grounds of one of the family suffering
from tuberculosis. The case of those living in condemned properties
was met by their particulars being brought to the notice of the Public
Health Committee and suitable recommendations being made to the
Housing Committee. By this procedure the case of those living in the
houses in the College Hill Road clearance order and the Ferndale Terrace
clearance order were referred to the Housing Committee in 1947, and all
the families were rehoused during 1948.
At the end of the year the following properties which had been the
subject of a demolition order or of a clearance order of the Council made
before the war were still occupied (the number in brackets is the number
of houses occupied).
Clearance Orders:
High Street, Stanmore, No. 3 (2); High Street, Stanmore, No. 4 (4);
Headstone Drive (20); Pleasant Place (3); and Brewery Cottages (5).
Demolition Orders:
1-11, Peel Road (3); 99-101, Greenfield Road (1); Kingsfield
Terrace (6).
In addition, demolition orders have been made since the war in
respect of 35, Milton Road and 11, Burns Road.
There are the names of 1,400 persons on the register of those who
have been notified as suffering from tuberculosis. Of these 200 are suffering
from non-pulmonary tuberculosis; most of these will be noninfectious.
Of the 1,200 notified pulmonary cases, many are not infectious
and are not a danger to those with whom they are living. Unsatisfactory
housing conditions might well be one of the factors that
lead to the development of an attack; in the same way they may cause the
breakdown of a lesion which has healed. For these reasons it is most
desirable that all who have had or have tuberculosis and the family
contacts of sufferers should be adequately housed. In determining, however,
which families in which a member is suffering from the disease
should be given the special claims to housing over and above all those
thousands of persons who for one reason or another so badly needed
rehousing, it was felt that the test should be the danger to others arising
from the presence of the patient suffering from open tuberculosis.
Such a person should have a room to himself. If this could be managed
only by the rest of the family being overcrowded, then the family is put
on the list of those considered for rehousing.