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(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 years 1936 and 1937 42
further cases were discovered; during the same period 73 cases were
abated leaving 109 awaiting abatement on 1st January, 1938.
During 1938 14 new cases of overcrowding were reported and
86 cases abated, leaving a balance of 37 cases of overcrowding awaiting
abatement on the 31st December, 1938.
Of the 86 cases in which overcrowding was relieved during 1938
29 were relieved by rehousing the families in Council houses, 3 were
rehoused by the London County Council in houses on the London
County Council Castelnau Estate, and the remaining 54 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.
Very satisfactory progress in the abatement of overcrowding has
been made to have reduced the number of known cases of overcrowding
in the Borough to as low a figure as 37.