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(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing Orders
became operative in pursuance of declarations by owners
of intention to close Nil.
F.—Proceedings under sections 11, 14 and 15 of the Housing Act, 1925:
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing Orders
became operative Nil.
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing Orders
were determined, the dwelling-houses having been rendered
fit Nil.
(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Demolition
Orders became operative Nil.
(4) Number of dwelling-houses demolished in pursuance of
molition Orders Nil.
Note.—Section 3 and Sections 11 to 15 of the Housing Act, 1925, have been
repealed by the Housing Act, 1930, but the proviso to Section 64 of the Act of
1930 continues in force any Notices, Closing Orders and Demolition Orders
made before the operation of the Act (15th August, 1930), and houses subject
to those Notices and Orders must continue to be dealt with under the relative
provisions of the Act of 1925.
Housing Conditions at Census, 1931.
Certain information was ascertained at the last Census which
indicated some of the housing conditions that existed in the Borough.
I have extracted the following statistics relating to dwellings
with more than two persons per room, this being the accepted
standard of overcrowding of the Registrar-General, and have compared
them with the corresponding figures from the two preceding
census returns.
On this basis of the conventional standard of overcrowding, i.e.,
"more than two persons per room," the overcrowded element among
the London Boroughs was at its lowest in Hampstead and Lewisham
each with 4.1 per cent. of its population falling within the category.
At the other end of the scale was Finsbury with 29.4 followed by
Shoreditch with 29.1 per cent. of the population thus overcrowded.
The actual number of persons in Hampstead living more than two to
a room at the 1931 census was 3,253 as compared with 5,243 in 1921.
It is satisfactory to find that this density is decreasing, although considerable
improvement is still imperative.
The average size of private families (persons) in the Borough
was ascertained to be 3.32 as compared with 3.72 at the census of 1921.
The average number of persons per room was 0.70 as compared with
0.71 in 1921.