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No. of cases recommended for rehousing on medical
grounds 53
No. of cases rehoused 21
No. of cases rejected or withdrawn 32
No. of cases on waiting list Nil.
The large proportion of cases rejected or withdrawn, practically
all on economic grounds, stresses the very real need for
some solution of the difficulty and representations are still being
made by your Council to the County Council on the matter.
Recently issued reports on nutrition have drawn attention to
the claim that if a more liberal dietary had been possible then
many children would have overcome spontaneously their tuberculous
infection without presenting any definite symptoms
or signs of the disease.
Mr. West is satisfied that the rent of many Council houses is
often paid at the expense of the necessary nutrition and that the
obvious danger to health is intensified in tuberculous cases.
Overcrowding.—
Mr. West has kindly furnished the following report:—
" Housing Register on 31st December, 1933 :—
No. of applicants on Register at 31.12.33 3,835
No. of new applications received during year 1933 949
No. of new tenancies effected during the year 116
No. of registered cases investigated during the year 749
No. of cases recommended by Medical Officer of
Health on medical grounds during the year 18
No. of such cases rehoused during year 6
No. of such cases which have been approved but still
awaiting tenancies Nil.
No. of such cases rejected owing to inability to pay
rent 12
No. of such cases remaining to be dealt with Nil.
The Council have continued to rehouse only bona fide residents
in the Borough, who have lived for at least seven consecutive
years in Walthamstow, and so far as is humanly possible tenancies
have been granted in accordance with the known requirements of
the applicants, that is the minimum number of bedrooms required,
according to the sex of the family, and not exceeding two persons
per room. In the case of tuberculous patients, of course,
additional accommodation has been offered where possible in order
that the patient should have the sole use of one room for his or
her accommodation.