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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 1969
[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 345 170
Total number of grants approved 102 178
Total amount of grants £42,185 £19,510
(b) Contributed by S.J.Horstead, Esq., A.I.H.M., Borough Housing Manager
Properties in Management at December 1969
Pre 1939 houses and flats 2,104
New houses and flats 10,146
Properties at Billericay 446
Properties at Wickford 151
Properties at Epping 206
Properties at Hutton 96
Prefabricated bungalows 24
Properties acquired for housing purposes 2,321
Properties for Clearance and Demolition 745
16,239
Number of properties made available for letting
New properties 545
Acquired properties 73
Normal vacancies 485
1,103
Families rehoused from the housing register
Number rehoused 918
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