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104.
The County Council estates available for Fulham
families are situated as follows:—
1. Becontree Estate, Essex.
2. Downham Estate, Bromley, Kent.
No further applications are being sent for the
Watling Estate as the number of houses available on
this estate for Fulham residents has been exceeded.
The rents, plus rates, of the County Council houses
vary from 12s. 6d. to 24s. per week, and the accommodation
varies from two to six rooms.
During the year 614 applications were made to the
Public Health Department, by families resident in
Fulham, for accommodation in houses on London County
Council estates.
The Public Health Department only recommend
cases of special hardship and overcrowding to the London
County Council and a large number of applications are
made directly to the London County Council.
The applications received are investigated in order
to ascertain the family income and expenditure and the
occupations of the individual members of the family, and
the homes are visited and inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors who report to the Medical Officer of Health.
As the result of these enquiries 355 families were
recommended to the London County Council for preferential
treatment and 196 families were accommodated
on the estates, 68 of whom were cases of overcrowding
while the remainder were suffering from other forms of
hardship.
Thirty-four applicants, in addition to the one
hundred and ninety-six were offered accommodation but
changed their minds and refused to accept it after all the
investigations and home visits had been made both by
the Borough and London County Council officials.