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GENERAL.
In the early part of 1937 a re-survey was made
under the Overcrowding Act, and each month
review cases are visited in order that the Committee
may know the exact extent of overcrowding
in the Borough month by month.
A site has been secured in Clayton Road for
the erection of houses to receive overcrowded families,
and on this site also will be erected a number
of houses for ordinary letting, particularly to
accommodate childless couples at present occupying
Council Houses.
There have been no cases of deliberate overcrowding
since the " appointed day," but many
hundreds of property owners have had to be communicated
with in order to get the correct entries
in the rent books.
During the year, certificates giving the
Permitted number of occupants under the overcrowding
provisions of the Housing Act were issued
in respect of 689 dwellings.
Two Sanitary Inspectors, Messrs. Cripps and
Scott, and one clerk, Mr. Willoughby, left the Corporation's
employ during the year. Mr. Scott's
place was not filled as he was more especially
appointed to assist in the Housing Overcrowding
Survey. Unfortunately these posts were not filled
until late in the year, and the Department was very
short of staff for four months.
The maintenance of the Council's Houses has
proceeded in a routine manner.