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of the previous year the number of permanent Council dwellings provided
was 2,731 and the number of buildings provided by private enterprise
3,182.
Further use was made during the year of the arrangements for the
removal of Harrow families to the New or Expanded Towns, 210 Harrow
families being housed. By the end of the year, the total number of families
who had been housed under these arrangements was 2,338, of which 736
were from the normal housing list. Most of these removals were to the
New towns of Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Harlow, Welwyn and
Hatfield and the Expanded Towns of Swindon and Bletchley. Smaller
numbers went to Basildon, Bracknell, Crawley, Aylesbury and Thetford.
New Housing Programme
By the end of the year the erection of ninety-seven dwellings, fortyeight
flats and eight old people's flats had been completed. There were
five dwellings in Pinner Hill Road, twenty-four in Stage 2 and twenty-four
in Stage 3 of Phase II of the Rayners Lane development and fourteen in
Northolt Road. Forty-eight flats were completed at Rayners Lane,
Twenty-four of Phase I of the programme, twenty-four in Stage 1 of
Phase II. In addition there were eight old people's flats at Bessborough
Road.
Work on forty-four flats was started during the year but not completed
by the end. Twelve of these were in Pinner Road, twenty in the
Brookside Estate, and twelve in the Marsh Road/Rayners Lane development.
Common Lodging Houses
There are no common lodging houses in the district.
SUPERVISION OF OTHER PREMISES
Routine visits are paid by the public health inspectors to such
premises as factories, licensed premises, cinemas, schools, church ha
and dance halls to see the conditions were sanitary.
Factories
There are 529 factories in the district. To these 348 visits were
Seventy-one contraventions were found. Of these sixteen were due to
want of cleanliness, and twenty-two to defective or unsuitable sanitary
accommodation. The remaining offences were mostly in regard to
compliance with the requirements about the exhibition of notices.