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I have repeatedly received letters from the Medical
Officer of the Tuberculosis Clinic end Core Almoner on behalf of
persons asking for better accommodation pointing out that they are
T.B. sufferers and require extra room so that, thooe so ill, can have
a'sepsrete bedroom which no doubt you will agree is the corrcct thing.
The Housing Officer has done his best to try and arrange this.
Generally speaking the health of the people in Surbiton is
very satisfactory as shown by the vital statistics and therefore
speaks well for the social welfare activities together with sanitary
improvements carried out by the Public Health Department.
I would again emphasise the importance of housing and
further provisions for tho6are of old persons. Visits were made for
possible action under section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1948,
but I em pleased to say that it was not necessary to take legal action.
STATISTICS.
Area (i.n acres) 4,709
population (June 1950) Registrar General's Estimate 61,230
Resident Population (Census 1931) 29,396
Estimated number of separate habitable dwellings
(houses and flats) in the Borough at the end of
the year 17,600
Number of new houses erected during the year:-
(a) By local authority 98
(b) By other local authorities 228
(c) By Metropolitan Water Board 23
(d) By private enterprise 69
(e) Rebuilt following destruction by
enemy action 5
(f) Self-contained flats provided by
conversion (private enterprise) 31
Rateable value at 1st April, 1950 £651,586
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,682
Prom the above it will be gathered that there has been an
increase in the population from 60,110 in 1949 to 61,230 for 1950,
the increase being 1,120 whirh includes the influx of people
coming into the Borough and nutural increase.
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