View report page

32
HOUSING CONDITIONS.
Statistics.
Year Ended 31st December, 1927.
GENERAL.
(1) Estimated population 12,209
(2) General death rate 12.5
(3) Death-rate from tuberculosis (all forms) 1.30
(4) Infantile mortality rate 38
*(5) Number of buildings containing dwellings (Census, 1921) 3,473
†(6) Number of separate dwellings (Census, 1921) 7,202
‡(6a) Number of working-class tenements (Census, 1921) 8,571
(7) Number of new working-class houses erected 1 Block 115 tenements
erection completed)
The following information is required by the Ministry of Health to be set out
in this report:—
Number of New Houses erected during the Year: —
(a) Total (including numbers given separately under (b)) 1 Block (15
tenements erection completed)
(b) With State assistance under the Housing Acts:
(i) By the Local Authority nil
(ii) By other bodies or persons
r —INSPECTION OF DWELLING -HOUSES DURING THE YEAR
(1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects
(under Public Health or Housing Acts)
(2) Number of dwelling-houses (included under sub-head (1)
above) which were inspected and recorded under the
Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925 nil
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous
or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation nil
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred to
under the preceding sub-bead) found not to be in all
respects reasonably fit. for human habitation 354
*"Buildings."—A structure wholly detached or separated from another by a party wall,
e.g., a block of flats is one building.
+" Separate dwelling"," i.e., having separate access to street or common landing or
staircase, e.g., each flat in a block is a separate dwelling, but a private house not structurally
divided is a single unit whether occupied by one or more families.
‡"Working-class tenements," i.e., separate occupations of one, two, three or four rooms
only.
§ Practically all these houses were tenement houses containing a number of tenements
I!A11 the more insanitary houses are always annually inspected.