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HOUSING.
Summary of Housing from 1919 to 1927 (inclusive) :—
The number of houses or flats provided by the Islington Borough Council,
the London County Council and by private enterprise in the Borough, was as
follows :—
1919 to Total since
1926. 1927. 1919.
Number of houses or flats provided by the
Islington Borough Council 721 24 745
Number of flats provided by the London
County Council 161 161
Number of houses or flats provided by
private enterprise 276 10 286
997 195 1,192
Particulars of houses or flats provided under the Council's Housing Schemes :
1919 to Total since
1926. 1927. 1919.
Halton Mansions 160 — 160
(8 more flats to be erected on lease of
two houses falling in during 1932).
City Mansions 47 47
Queen's Mansions 44 44
Warltersville Mansions 46 46
Manchester Mansions 31 31
Addington Mansions 107 107
435 435
*Conversion of 16 houses into 61 dwellings 61
Tyndale Mansions 78† 24† 102†
Laycock Mansions 132 132
Houses, etc., Highbury Station Road 15 15
721 24 745
*Includes :—27, Rupert Road
8, Barnsbury Street
27 and 25, Canonbury Villas converted
2, Highbury Grange
† The figure 78 in the 1919-1926 column is a corrected figure, as 24 houses,
although practically completed in that year, had not really had the water certificates
granted, and these, properly speaking, are now placed in the year 1927.
This accounts for the total figure 102 being the same as was given in the previous
report.
Ten houses of the rateable value of over £50 have been converted into 26
flats. The number of overcrowding cases recorded as dealt with during the
year 1919 to 1927, was :—