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(c) Walthamstow, as an area, is fast becoming built up and the
small area left may be difficult to sewer properly because it is lowlying
and furthest from the sewage outfall.
(3) Overcrowding.
(а) See pages 35 & 37.
(b) It is difficult to estimate how far overcrowding is due to
inability to pay rents of available houses.
(c) In seven instances the occupiers and the owners concerned in
overcrowded cases were written to. As a result, five cases were
abated and in many instances the Council and the Warner Estate
Co. have again helped by granting a house or flat.
(4) Fitness of Houses.
(a) There has been no special difficulty in action under the Public
Health Acts or the Housing Act, 1925, Section 3. It is sometimes
difficult to find the right person on whom to serve notice by reason
of Section 5 of the Housing Act, 1925, not being carried into effect
by those responsible, but the difficulty is overcome by leaving
notices on the premises addressed to the Owner. It is to be regretted
to some extent that the Manual on Unfit Houses is only a guide and
not law.
(b) No circumstances have arisen where special measures have
been taken to deal with insanitary property by the gradual carrying
out of repairs by Owners but there is more possibility of such an
arrangement under the 1930 Housing Act.
(c) There are three groups of eight houses in the area which have
no internal water supply, two of which have a tap in a yard used in
common. The other houses have separate taps fixed in their respective
gardens. There are no private water supplies.
(d) One group of eight houses in Hilton Grove have four W.C.'s
attached at one end thereof and used in common by the occupiers of
the eight houses.
(5) Unhealthy Areas.
No part of the district can be said to contain an unhealthy area.