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HOUSING CONDITIONS.
Statistics for Year ending 31st December, 1920.
1.- GENERAL.
(1) Estimated population 114,471
(2) General death-rate 14.9
(3) Death-rate from Tuberculosis 1.72
(4) Infantile mortality 94.6
(5) Number of tenements of all classes
(separate occupiers) 27,755
(6) Number of working-class dwelling-houses —
(7) Number of new working-class houses
erected a few
2.—UNFIX DWELLING-HOUSES.
I.—Inspection
(1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected
for housing defects (under
Public Health or Housing Acts) 9,246
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were
inspected and recorded under the
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations,
1910 1,354
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be
in a state so dangerous or injurious to
health as to be unfit for human habitation
231
(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
figures not
available.