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The number of Inspections under the Housing and Town Planning
Act, 1909, for the year is 140. 73 defects were found and have been or are in
the course of being remedied by the owners. The remedies are however in
many cases likely to be temporary only, and to last at most for a few years.
Rebuilding on modern principles will have to be done ultimately.
In response to the demand for more Houses for the Working Classes
in Ickenham and Harefield, the two special inquiries which the Council held
undoubtedly confirmed the same, and I understand that the principle that the
Council should take steps to supply the deficiency is now agreed upon. I
hope to be able to report next year that the difficulty of the acquisition of
suitable sites has been surmounted, and the work in hand or completed. At
Ickenham, where it is proposed to erect two cottages only, the very small
piece of land required apparently adds to the difficulty, for owners are more
inclined to sell a larger plot, when they will not willingly part with small
pieces only. I am still of opinion that were a larger number of workmen's
cottages put up, no great difficulty would be found in letting them.
WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES, ETC.
The table at the end of this Report gives details as to these. Further
extensions of the Harefield Asbestos Works have been made, and the question
of the housing accommodation of the work-people has become more urgent.
C.—SANITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE DISTRICT.
1.—Staff. Your Staff was as in 1912.
2.—The Hospital accommodation has proved quite adequate for the
calls on it. Fifteen cases were admitted to the Infectious Hospital. One of
these, a case of diphtheria, proved fatal.
Number of available Beds 32
which in emergency can be increased to 72.
No case of Small Pox has occurred. The Hospital at Yeading
remains closed.