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(b) The Housinq Acts.
(Note.—The detailed statistics as to action under these Acts
will be given in the appendices).
The Housing Committee, after prolonged consideration, decided to
deal with unfit houses under the Housing Acts by appointing one Special
Inspector, who should take a comprehensive view of all houses deemed
unfit, and a certain course of action was laid down whereby a schedule
of defects in each house was prepared. These were submitted to the
owners for their consideration. Personal interviews were arranged and
negotiations initiated for remedying the defects; and although under
the present exceptional conditions where labour and materials are dear
and scarce it has been impossible to deal drastically with these cases, yet
by these means compromises have been effected and much work has been
done and defects remedied in consequence.