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Much good work has already been done in the East
Ward, and the County Council have already built dwellings
of the artisan class type for the people we are gradually
displacing. In:—
Armada Street (Greenwich)—consisting of 2 to 4 rooms,
and let at a rental of 5s. to 7s. per week.
New King Street—consisting of 2 to 4 rooms, and let at a
rental of 5s. to 7s. per week.
Brookmill Road—consisting of 3 rooms, and let at a
rental of 7s. 6d. per week.
HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, &C. ACT, 1909.
As stated in last year's report considerable and important
amendments to the law relating to the housing of the working
classes have been made, and are included in the Housing and
Town Planning Act, 1909, but it is only this year that we have
brought our procedure under the Act into thorough working
order.
The sections which more immediately relate to unhealthy
houses are sections 14, 15, 17, 18.
Section 14 provides that in any contract made after the
passing of this Act for letting for habitation a house or part of
a house at a rent not exceeding in London £40 a year, there
shall be implied a condition that the house is at the commencement
of the holding in all respects fit for human habitation;
and by Section 15 there is included an undertaking that the
house shall, during the holding, be kept by the landlord in all
respects reasonably fit for human habitation. This section
does not apply to a house let for a term of not less than three
years upon the terms that it be put by the lessee .into a
condition reasonably fit for occupation, and the lease is not
determinable before the expiration of that term.