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still remains closed. The only additions made have been applicants
for a type of flat not considered suitable for young children, the
rents of which are above the normal paid for a Council House, and
also recommendations submitted by the Medical Officer of Health on
medical grounds.
"Approximately 1,000 names could be added to the list of
registered applicants quoted below if it had been permissible to
grant the requests of persons either calling at, or writing to, the
Estate Office during the year.
"If the correspondence received, or the number of enquiries
made at the Estate Office could be considered as any criterion of the
need of houses, then I regret to report that it would appear that the
housing situation in Walthamstow is unsolvable.
"It must be admitted that the large number of seriously overcrowded
cases have been rehoused by the Council, but it is regretted
that the need for still more houses is as great as ever.
"Lack of available building land is now the cause of much
anxiety to the Council, and as a consequence a sub-committee has
been appointed to view all available vacant sites in the Borough.
Steps are also being taken again to approach the Ministry of Health
in order to acquire the vacant land at Salisbury Hall for the purpose
of erecting further houses.
"Another proposal before the Council is to explore the possibility
of erecting some form of living accommodation on the vacant
land in Cbuntess Road, which has been considered unfit at present
for the erection of the normal type of structure.
Tuberculous Cases.
"So far as has been possible every consideration has been given
to all oases for rehousing submitted by the Medical Officer of Health,
and any vacancies arising on the Estates throughout the year have,
in the first instance, been considered for such cases owing to the
lack of new schemes where greater opportunities were possible to
allot the appropriate type of house.
The number of cases submitted in total amount to 24, of which
11 have already been rehoused, 5 have had to be deferred owing! to
lack of income with which to meet the appropriate normal rent,
and 8 remain on the waiting list for the appropriate type of house
required.
"With regard to the deferred cases, this does not necessarily
mean that, the families and patients cannot be rehoused by the