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With regard to the general fitness of houses, it should be remembered
that Hampstead is, for the most part, a high-class residential
district; and even in those parts of the Borough where the poorer
number of the community reside, the houses are, generally speaking,
structurally sound. It is safe to say that, as a result of the action of
the sanitary staff in recent years, very many of those dwellings which
had fallen out of repair have been restored to a reasonable standard.
In order to overtake the sanitary defects which had accumulated
during the War, the Housing Committee decided in 1920 to adopt a
scheme of negotiating with owners for the remedy of sanitary defects.
The method adopted was as follows:—2 of the district inspectors were
specially appointed to this work, and, having first compiled a list of
1,264 houses which were in need of supervision, they surveyed the
houses one by one and compiled a list of sanitary defects therein,
submitting such to the owners and inviting their co-operation. The
schedules which were thus served were not schedules in conformity
with the Housing Acts, but took the form of an intimation. This
method proved most successful. I append a list of the figures relating
to this survey as it existed at the end of 1925 : —
"Survey" Statistics to 31st December, 1925.
Year.
Particulars.
First Survey,
Second
Survey,
Third
Survey.
Total.
Insanitary
Property, or
" Big List."
Unhealthy
Areas, or
" Small
List,"
1919.
Survey of Borough
597
234
-
-
831
1924.
„
-
-
206
-
206
1925.
„
—
—
-
227
227
597
234
206
227
1264
1921.
Schedules, &c., completed
94
23
-
-
117
1922.
„ „
141
21
-
-
162
1923.
„ „
172
46
-
-
218
1924.
„ „
103
111
41
-
255
1925.
„ „
26
23
76
44
169
Total completed
536
224
117
44
921
Balance
61
10
89
183
343*
Total as above
597
234
206
227
1264
* Note.—Informal Schedules have been served on all these 343 premises, and in many
instances the works are well in hand.