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Towns. The total number of families who have moved to New or Expanded Towns since
that data is a further 186, eighteen families having been rehoused in this way during 1959.
There were 426 houses, built between 1930 and 1936, which still had old ranges with
hot water supply, except where the tenants themselves installed modern fireplaces. 64 of
these ranges were replaced by the Council during 1959, making a total of 163 modernised
up to the 31st December, 1959.
The last of the Council houses built with gas lighting were modernised by early 1959.
All the 349 houses built before 1929 have now been wired for electricity, and are equipped
with modern fireplaces, hot water supply and lavatory basins.
Houses Let in Lodgings
There are 180 houses let in lodgings, owned and occupied mainly by Indians. Their
sub-tenants are West Africans and Irish.
Section 90 of the Housing Act, 1957, is applied to each of these houses so that owners
shall know as soon as possible "what is in the authority's opinion the maximum number of
persons by whom it is suitable to be occupied."
The Public Health Act, 1936, has on occasion to be used for the repair and cleansing
of waterclosets and accumulations of rubbish.
A fair amount of time is spent in raising hygiene standards of these new residents, but
a great deal more time will be needed.
Middlesex County Council Act, 1944—Section 345
The caravan site at the junction of Regina Road and Pluckington Place continues to be
used as the winter quarters of a member of The Showmen's Guild. One family still occupies
a caravan near the Grand Union Canal, at Bull's Bridge.
New Housing
The following details have been supplied by the Borough Engineer, outlining the
complete amount of house building for Southall since the end of the war.

In 1959, fifteen of the temporary prefabricated bungalows were demolished and the
tenants transferred to permanent housing.