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Overcrowding
Number of individual dwellings overcrowded at
the end of the year 127
Number of families found to be living in overcrowded
conditions during year 30
Number of families who have obtained alternative
accommodation during year 88
Underground Rooms
Number occupied, but unfit 2
Number closed 2
There are many underground rooms throughout the Borough and a
fairly high proportion of them, although used as dwellings, do not conform
in all respects with the statutory requirements and cannot without major
structural alterations be made to do so. Closure is not, however, practicable
in present circumstances and owners have been co-operative in making
these rooms reasonably fit.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts
Certificates of Disrepair were granted in 4 cases during the year.