Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
This page requires JavaScript
36
"Housing Act, 1930 (Section 25 (2) )."
Form of Quinquennial Statement.
Name of Local Authority: Walthamstow Borough Council.
Population (estimated figure for middle of 1929) 124,800
A. Estimated production of houses by the Local
Authority during the next five years 800
B. Estimated production of new houses of workingclass
type by private enterprise during the next five
years:—
(i) with subsidy under the Act of 1924 Nil
(ii) with arrangements made under Section 29
of the Act of 1930 Nil
(iii) Otherwise 2,000
C. Estimated number of new houses to be allocated by
the Local Authority during the next five years to
the purposes of the Housing Act, 1930 (i.e., the
purposes mentioned in E and F) 751
D. Estimated number of new houses to be allocated by
the Local Authority during the next five years to
the purposes of the Act of 1924 (i.e., new Housing) 49
Total 800
E. Estimated number of houses to be demolished
during the next five years:—
(i) in Clearance areas 116
(ii) in Improvement areas:—
(a) for opening the area Nil
(b) as unfit houses Nil
(iii) individual houses outside clearance and
improvement areas 8
Total 124
E. Estimated number of persons to be displaced
during the next five years:—
(i) by any of the processes mentioned in E 596
(ii) to abate overcrowding in improvement
areas 3,138
Total 3,734
G. Estimated number of houses to be repaired under
Part II of the Housing Act, 1930, during the next
five years 11,575