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It has been stated on many occasions, as, for instance, at the public enquiry
with regard to the proposed Lower Clapton Road housing site, that as soon as
accommodation is granted on a Municipal housing estate" Aliens from abroad
flock in "again to overcrowd the vacated rooms. This is entirely untrue. When
the County Council grant accommodation, information is sent to the Borough
Public Health Department, and the District Sanitary Inspector is given the following
memorandum:—
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION.
Address Date
Family
This family has removed from the above address to
Please visit the premises and warn the occupier against allowing the room or rooms
to be re-let in such a way as to cause overcrowding.
This memorandum is to be returned to me initialled after the visit has been made,
and with any necessary observations.
Medical Officer of Health.
The following letter is also sent by me direct:—
Dear Sir (or Madam),
With reference to the removal of the family from your
address, and the consequent abatement of overcrowding, I have to inform you that if,
in future, overcrowding by sub-letting any part of the premises occurs, legal proceedings
may be taken against the person responsible.
Medical Officer of Health.
All applications for a County Council house recommended for housing accommodation,
with particulars, are carefully entered in a special book, together with
cases granted accommodation, and from time to time the Inspectors are requested
to report on the use made of the vacated premises. In only one instance was a
premises found to be again overcrowded, notice was immediately served and the
new tenants, who, it was stated, were only temporarily in residence, immediately
found accommodation elsewhere.