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Families rehoused:—
1-bedroom group 139
2-bedroom group 209
3-bedroom group 107
4-bedroom group 15
Total 470
Of the total number of families rehoused, in 11 instances there
was a medical recommendation made in respect of tuberculosis.
Property under management at 28.12.57 (dwellings only):—
Pre-1939 houses and flats 1,615
New houses and flats 1,988
Prefabricated bungalows 477
13 properties converted into flats 56
Properties improved 61
Properties acquired for improvement and
conversion 394
Properties acquired for General Housing
purposes 108
Properties for Clearance and Demolition 85
Requisitioned dwellings (144 licences) 127
Halfway houses 4
General properties 29
Total 4,944
Total at the end of 1956 was 4,731.
In addition to the families rehoused in Walthamstow, transfers
and exchanges of accommodation amounted to 206 cases, and no
fewer than 261 families are known to the Housing Department to
have been rehoused in the New Towns.
The numbers of families rehoused in the New Towns have
been as follows:—
1950 8
1951 48
1952 153
1953 165