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decentralise their populations. The Council is already operating schemes
with Bletchley and Aylesbury, paying the annual rate fund contribution
for ten years in the one case and for 20 years in the other in respect of
each family nominated by the Council for a house in those towns. Apart
from movements under these arrangements, some families had already
moved from Harrow to Hemel Hempstead. It is now proposed that
exporting towns should make a contribution to the New Town Corporations
on the same lines as they were making to the Expanded Towns in
respect of families nominated by the Council, the annual rate fund
contribution being paid for ten years.
Arrangements have been made for 100 houses in Aylesbury to be
allotted to families whose names are on the Harrow waiting list. For
each house Harrow will pay Aylesbury an annual rate fund contribution of
£8 18s. Od. per house for 20 years. Provision is made for the position
to be reviewed after 20 years.
By the end of the year 409 Harrow families had been housed in new or
in expanded towns, 277 being at Hemel Hempstead, 44 at Stevenage and
60 at Bletchley. Of these, 284 families had been on the ordinary
housing waiting list.

*A further five cases recommended by the Public Health Committee
have qualified for housing on their pointing.
The following table gives for the different years:
(a) The number of Council houses built.
(b) The number houses allocated to registered cases of overcrowding
either by the operation of the points scheme, or on the special
recommendation of the Public Health Committee.
(c) The number of houses allocated to families with a member suffering
from tuberculosis.
(d) The number of houses included in operative Clearance Orders.
(e) The number of individual unfit houses condemned.
(f) The number of Closing Orders made.