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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Waltham Forest 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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In addition to the main building programme, improvements and conversions were carried
out at a number of Council owned properties.
DISCRETION ARY STANDARD
Applications received 185 231
Total number of grants approved 97 220
Total amount of grants approved £40,236 £18,367
(b) Contributed by S.J.Horstead, Esq., A.I.H.M., Borough Housing Manager
Properties in Management at December 1967
Pre 1939 houses and flats 2,105
New houses and flats 8,702
Properties at Billericay 446
Properties at Wickford 47
Properties at Epping 206
Properties at Hutton 96
Prefabricated bungalows 26
Properties acquired for housing purposes 2,252
Properties for Clearance and Demolition 657
14,537
Number of properties made available for letting
New properties 1,016
Acquired properties 218
Normal vacancies 397
1,631
Families rehoused from the housing register
Number rehoused 926
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