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Luncheon meat 20 lbs. Cakes 18cwt.
Lamb 35 „ Eggs 30 doz.
Pork 367 „ Frozen foods 826 pkts.
Ox tongue 12 „ Assorted packets and
Fish 91 „ tins 2,048
Yours faithfully,
K. J. GUTTERIDGE,
Chief Public Health Inspector.
HOUSING STATISTICS
Total Number of Inhabited Dwellings—20,370
Housing properties now owned by the Council amount to 4,524,
including 340 temporary dwellings.
During the year a further 111 new dwellings were handed over
for letting, all of them on the Phipps Bridge estate, to which reference
was made in last year's report.
There were five fewer temporary dwellings than last year, arising
from the fact that a start was made on the demolition of 35 temporary
bungalows built on land zoned for recreation ground use and which
has to be cleared by September, 1965.
During the year a total of 253 families were rehoused from the
waiting list, 185 in Mitcham, 64 in the Frimley and Camberley Urban
District under the Town Expansion Scheme with which this Council
is associated, and four in new towns.
The number of new registrations, however, increased, and at the
end of the year the Housing Register stood at 1,313, a net increase
of 11 over the previous year.
There was an appreciable increase in the proportion of elderly
applicants on the waiting list during the year.
Rent Act, 1957
Twenty applications were made for Certificates of Disrepair
during the year. In 16 cases undertakings were given by the various