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This was approved by the Council on 23rd November and ordered
to be posted at the Council's Offices, on the Borough Depot boards, and
at the underground conveniences; the L.C.C. was also asked to allow
copies to be posted on the notice boards outside their schools.
FLAT DWELLINGS.
The most noticeable feature cf Metropolitan development during
the last docade has been the extraordinary increase in the number of
dwellings built on the flat principle. So great has this been in some
districts (of which Hampstead is one), that now a very considerable
portion of the population resides in houses of that description.
When a change of this kind has taken place in the mode of living
of a community, the question as to what effect such alteration has had
on the lifo and health of that section who are living under the altered
conditions naturally arises.
So far as I am aware, the only statistics available are based upon
estimated data ; tables compiled upon actual figures will therefore be of
very considerable interest.
The difficult task of taking the census of flat dwellers was undertaken
by the Staff of the Public Health Department, and carried through in
such a manner as to entitle them to considerable credit.
The dwellers in Flats are divided into two distinct classes. Firstly,
those of the well-to-do class living in dwellings to which the name of
" Flat" is popularly applied; and secondly, those of tho working class
population inhabiting dwellings to which the name of Model or Artizans'
Dwellings is more appropriate.
Under the latter category will come the Council's new Dwellings in
Lower Cross Road, and the statistics of the existing Artizans' Dwellings
shewn below will therefore be of utility in future in comparing the
Council's Dwellings with others of a like nature.
"Flats," not including Working Class or Artizans' Dwellings.
Ward No. 1. Total Flat Population, 332.
Ciardnor Mansions, Church Row. Hampstead Mansions, Heath Street.
Ellerdale Mansions, Fitzjohn's Avenue. Express Mansions, Heath Street.
Frognal Mansions, Frognal. The Pryors, East Heath Road.
Heath Mansions, The Grove. Express Buildings, Heath Street.
Northcote House, Heath Street. Albermarle Mansions, Heath Drive.
„ Mansions, Heath Street.