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STATISTICS.—HOUSING CONDITIONS.
Number of New Houses Erected during the Year 1923.
(a) Total 108
(b) As part of a Municipal Housing Scheme 12
Unfit Dwelling Houses.
I. Inspection.
(1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects
(under Public Health or Housing Acts) 6,963
(2) Number of dwelling-houses inspected and recorded under the
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations —
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous
or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation —*
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred to under
the preceding sub-heading) found not to be in all respects
reasonably fit for human habitation 5,399
II. Remedy of defects without service of formal notices.
Number of dwelling houses rendered fit in consequence of informal
action by the local authority or its officers 3,274
III. Action under Statutory Powers.
(a) Proceedings under Section 28, Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1919:—
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were served
requiring repairs 3
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were rendered fit—
(a) By owners 3
(b) By Local Authority in default of owners —
(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing Orders
became operative in pursuance of declaration by owners of
intention to close —
III. (6) Proceedings under Public Health Act:—
(1) Number of notices served requiring defects to be remedied
(dwelling-houses):—
Intimations 5,399
Statutory Notices 1,898
Notices—houses let in Lodgings 224
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in which defects were remedied—
(a) By owners all except 6
(b) By Local Authority in default of owners 6
111. (c) Proceedings under Sections 17 and 18 of the Housing, Town
Planning, etc., Act, 1909 Nil
* Two houses were closed following action by the District Surveyor
of the London County Council, and have since been demolished. The
stuctures were in a dangerous condition.