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In addition to the tuberculosis cases, thirteen other cases
were recorded as needing special consideration on medical grounds
and ninety three on general grounds.
POPULATION PREDICTION AS RELATED TO HOUSING PROVISION
The Registrar General has produced estimates (which are likely
to be very accurate) of the population structure of England and
Wales during the next twenty years but it is not possible to predict
with any degree of accuracy the populations of local areas.
In Walthamstow, for example, the opening of the Victoria line
will tend to attract white-collar commutors, while the transfer of
industrial concerns to satellite towns, e.g., Taylor Controls to
Stevenage, may lead to some industrial workers moving out of the
district. By altering the proportion of various classes within the
community large differences might arise in the housing need even if
the total population remains numerically the same.
The Local Authorities, through their own town planning and
redevelopment schemes, may themselves profoundly affect the structure
of the population by encouraging or discouraging industrial development
or providing particular types of housing.
Therefore no local estimate can pretend to be accurate but it
is reasonable, as a first approximation, to apply the National trends
to local statistics and then introduce such corrective factors as can
be foreseen.