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By the 31st December, 1937, applications from landlords, asking
to be furnished with information as to "permitted numbers," had been
received in respect of 2,903 of the "dwellings" included in the survey.
Certificates giving the " permitted numbers " for these were issued.
(2). Abatement of Overcrowding.
There has been no instance during the year of any dwellinghouse
having again become overcrowded after the Council had taken
steps for the abatement of overcrowding.
The overcrowding survey disclosed 140 "dwellings" in which
statutory overcrowding existed. During the year 1936 20 further cases
were discovered; during the same year 41 cases were abated leaving
119 awaiting abatement on 1st January, 1937.
During 1937 22 new cases of overcrowding were reported and
32 cases abated, leaving a balance of 109 cases of overcrowding awaiting
abatement on the 31st December, 1937.
Of the 32 cases in which overcrowding was relieved during 1937
5 were relieved by rehousing the families in Council houses, 12 were
rehoused by the London County Council in houses on the London
County Council Castelnau Estate, and the remaining 15 had become
relieved in various other ways, such as the families having removed
to dwellings with more accommodation, some of the members of the
households having left to reside elsewhere, etc.
For the abatement of those existing cases of overcrowding which
do not get relieved by other means the Council will have available a
balance of about 40 dwellings remaining in the Chertsey Court
block of flats after the families from the last of the slum-clearance
areas have been rehoused.