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Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts
No certificate was issued during the year.
Housing
(1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 2,311
(2) Number of dwelling-houses (included in (1) above) which
were inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated
Regulations, 1925 and 1932 69
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so
gerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation 8
(4) Number of dwelling-houses found not to be in all respects
fit for human habitation 1,807
Action under statutory powers during the year.
(a) Proceedings under Sections 9, 10 and 16 of the Housing
Act, 1936:-
(i) Dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were
served requiring repairs 6
(ii) Dwelling-houses which were rendered fit after service
of formal notices 2
(In one case the work was executed by the Council,
in default of the owner, at a cost of £340.)
(b) Proceedings under Public Health Acts:—
(i) Dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were
served requiring defects to be remedied 1,807
(ii) Dwelling-houses in which defects were remedied after
service of formal notices:—
(a) By owners 1,760
(b) By local authority in default of owners Nil
(c) Proceedings under Sections 11 and 13 of the Housing Act,
1936:—
(i) Dwelling-houses in respect of which demolition orders
were made Nil
(ii) Dwelling-houses demolished in pursuance of
tion orders Nil
(d) Proceedings under Section 12 of the Housing Act, 1936:—
(i) Separate tenements or underground rooms in respect
of which closing orders were made 7
(ii) Separate tenements or underground rooms in respect
of which closing orders were determined the
tenements or rooms having been rendered fit Nil
I must reiterate the position as regards the large number of dwellinghouses
in the Borough which are not up to a reasonable standard of
fitness. I have previously reported that "the cumulative effect of war
damage, the lack of elementary maintenance work during and after the
war years, the difficulties of obtaining building labour and materials,
and high costs generally, had resulted in a large amount of deterioration
and dilapidations in dwelling houses in the Borough." I stressed also
the additional complication, particularly in the Adelaide and Priory
Wards, of large numbers of dilapidated premises where the leases had
either expired or had only very few years to run.