§ 10. Mr. Lewisasked the Assistant Postmaster-General the total number of applicants waiting for telephone installation at the latest convenient stated date, in the county borough of West Ham; and the number of installations that have taken place in each of the years from 1945 until the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. GammansOn 31st December, 1953, 1,250 applications were outstanding and 747 were in course of being met or under inquiry. As the second part of the reply contains a number of figures, I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following are the figures:
§ The numbers of telephones connected in the years 1946 to 1953 are as follows:
| 1946 | 1,861 |
| 1947 | 1,321 |
| 1948 | 984 |
| 1949 | 595 |
| 1950 | 1,135 |
| 1951 | 2,031 |
| 1952 | 1,190 |
| 1953 | 1,349 |