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(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing
Orders were determined, the dwelling-houses having
been rendered fit —
(4) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Demolition
Orders were made —
(5) Number of dwelling-houses demolished in pursuance of
Demolition Orders —
3.—Unhealthy Areas.
Areas represented to the Local Authority with a view to Improvement
Schemes under (a), Part I., or (b), Part II., of the
Act of 1890 :—
(1) Name of areas —
(2) Acreage —
(3) Number of woiking-class houses in area . —
(4) Number of working-class people to he displaced —
4.—Number of houses not complying with the building byelaws
erected with consent of Local Authority under Section
25 of the Housing, Town Planning, Etc., Act, 1919 —
5.—Staff engaged on housing work with, briefly, the duties of
each officer 10
(7 district sanitary inspectors and 3 doing house-to-house
inspections.)
* Nos. 39, 41, 43 and 45, Gale Street. Closing Orders were made on
22nd March, 1923, and became operative, but Demolition Orders were not
made owing to inability to provide accommodation for displaced persons.
Early in 1924 two-months' notices were served under the 1919 and 1923
Acts, Sections 28 and 10 respectively, upon the above premises, and also
upon No. 157, St. Leonard's Street.
A special report, dated 4th February, 1924, relating to Abandoned
Property and the difficulty of enforcing Sections 28 and 10 of the Housing
and Town Planning Etc., Act, 1919, and the Housing, Etc., Act, 1923,
respectively, was submitted to the Public Health and Housing Committee.