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The information available up-to-date is that the beforementioned
250 dwelling-houses, which were unoccupied, but still
in rating at the time of the preparation of the Borough Treasurer's
Report, may now be classified as follows:—
1. Occupied or being prepared for occupation 125
2. Suitable for occupation (probably with slight
repairs), but for sale only (with occupation) 23
3. Fit for demolition (if not actually demolished) 22
4. Suitable for business purposes, or for occupation
with business 20
5. Acquired for commercial or institutional (extension,
etc.), purposes (in most cases for demolition) 25
6. Dwelling-houses, which, without re-construction,
will probably remain unoccupied, and which, in
some cases (but in some cases only), can be
adapted for use as flats or tenements 28
7. Dwelling-houses, which, wholly or in part, require
considerable repairs to render them in all respects
reasonably fit for human habitation 7
Total 250
Classes 1, 3, 4 and 5 explain themselves, and do not come within
the purview of this Report, whereas Classes 2, 6 and 7 do—
Class 2, concerning the Housing Committee, and Classes 6 and 7,
the Public Health Committee, in the opinion of the Medical Officer
of Health.
Some of the dwelling-houses tabulated in Classes 6 and 7, can
be dealt with under Section 28 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1919. In this connection, however, the works required under
Schedules or Notices that may be served to render the dwellinghouses
in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation may
include works of re-construction, thereby bringing such dwellinghouses
as may require re-construction outside the provisions of
that particular Section of the Act (Section 28).