Housing Notes

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Includes report on number of houses let in different categories and overcrowding in Corporation Houses, December 1936; updated report on overcrowding and new housing, January 1937; Enquiry into Overcrowding with data on 100 houses surveyed; page from The Medical Officer, May 1937 with an article on housing large families; Overcrowding and the Housing Act 1935 by Stewart Swift; Housing - interview with Mr Gordon January 1937 [on the acquisition of land for redevelopment]; memoranda to Dr MacGregor on redevelopment and clearance areas, size of houses erected by Housing Department and the legal definition of appointed day; Report by the Director of Housing on Housing Progress and forecast of houses proposed to be built and schemes to be started during 1937 with special reference to Five Years' Programme of 20,000 houses; and National Housing and Town Planning Conference Harrogate November 27th 1936 Address by Rt Hon Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health. Originally in an envelope addressed to Dr A S M MacGregor.
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Population density

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