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would have to go short of food or adequate clothing in
order to pay the rents.
The main reasons given by the applicants to justify
their applications were:
(i) overcrowding.
(ii) lack of sleeping accommodation for the separation of
the sexes.
(iii) illness ascribed to bad housing conditions.
(iv) living in underground rooms.
(v) rent so high that the applicants could not afford the
necessities of life.
Every endeavour has been made to provide accommodation
only for those in real need of it who were likely
to make good tenants. On account of the large number
of applications, however, many deserving applicants had
to be refused.
The sanitary condition of the premises occupied by
tenants who were accommodated in Fulham Court was
enquired into by the sanitary inspectors and appropriate
action was taken when necessary.
In cases of overcrowding letters were sent to the
owner or other person responsible for the letting of the
rooms, requesting them not to re-let in such a way as
to cause a repetition of the overcrowding.
It was found on subsequent visiting by the inspectors
that the landlords had in many cases given the vacated
rooms to existing tenants and, up to the present, no cases
of overcrowding have been found in the vacated rooms.
London County Council Estates.
Since October, 1924, fifteen houses out of every
thousand erected on London County Council Estates
have been allocated to Fulham residents recommended
by the Medical Officer of Health of the borough.