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(ix) be provided with facilities for domestic washing, including a
a copper, preferably in a separate room:
(x) have a proper drainage system:
(xi) be provided with adequate points for artificial lighting in each
room:
(xii) be provided with adequate facilities for heating each habitable
room:
(xiii) have satisfactory facilities for preparing and cooking food:
(xiv) have a well-ventilated larder or food store:
(xv) have a proper provision for the storage of fuel:
(xvi) have a satisfactory surfaced path to outbuildings and convenient
access from a street to the back door.
It is true this standard has been adopted only for a dwelling improved
with assistance under the 1949 Act, and which has a life of at least
30 years but it is clearly desirable as conditions improve, this standard
should be the criterion when deciding whether a house is fit or otherwise,
in contemplating action under Section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936.
The one per cent, sample tables of the 1951 Census revealed that
45 per cent, of all householders either share a fixed bath or are without
one. The corresponding figure is 23 per cent, in the case of waterclosets
and 17 per cent, in respect of piped water.
In the case of piped water, cooking stove and water-closet, the
householders sharing the arrangements with others are twice as numerous
as those entirely without, but those entirely without a fixed bath
are more than five times as numerous as those sharing.
Thus it is clear that the housing problem is not only one of provision
of new houses, but also the improvement of large numbers of substandard
houses.
CAMPSBOURNE CLEARANCE AREA
The first stage which was commenced in October, 1949 is partly
completed and of the 48 new flats in Brook Road, 24 are occupied and
24 are nearing completion, while 23 others in the area are in the course
of construction.
Thirty-six families have been re-housed from houses numbered 6 to
56 Boy ton Road which will be demolished during the next stage, and
26 families are still to be re-housed.
Like similar houses in Campsbourne and Myddelton Roads these
dark and damp basements in Boyton Road by reason of disrepair,
sanitary defects and absence of essential conveniences form the greatest
and most urgent problem from a health point of view. It is gratifying
to know that the families from these houses, have the opportunity of
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