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23. Norwich No scheme.
24. Birkenhead No scheme.
25. Huddersfield The Corporation, in 1853, was the first in the United
Kingdom to erect municipal lodging-houses. In
1832 scheme carried out under local Act, ground
lease for 999 years.
26. Derby No scheme.
27. Swansea Scheme under Artisans', &c., Dwellings Act, 1875, at a
cost of £4,456 per annum. Land sold or leased.
Net cost of scheme £3,229 per annum.
28. Halifax Provisional Order applied for to Local Government
Board. Inquiry held. Requirements such that
Council abandoned scheme.
29. Burnley No scheme.
30. Gateshead No scheme.
31. Plymouth The Corporation has adopted Part III., Housing of
Working Classes Act, 1890. Schemes under it
carried out.
32. Wolverhampton Scheme under the Artisans', &c.. Dwellings Act, 1875.
An area of 16 acres cost £267,862.
MUNICIPAL LODGING AND DWELLING HOUSES.
Under Part III of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, which
contains with amendments the majority of the provisions of the Labouring Classes
Lodging Houses Acts, 1851 to 1867, (Shaftesbury's Acts) as amended by the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885, the fullest powers are given to Local
Authorities adopting it to provide and let lodging and dwelling-houses for the
working classes.
The Town Clerk of Middlesborough, Mr. George Bainbridge, sent a set of
queries as to the adoption and execution of Part III. to the Town Clerks of the
County Boroughs, &c., and in March, 1900, arranged and printed in an elaborate
table. The table below is a summary of part of that table, condensed and
supplemented, and arranged in order of population according to the Census of
1891.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890—Part III.
1. Liverpool Adopted. Dwellings built at a cost of £13,000 and
scheme in progress to cost £26,600. Under the
A. L. D. I. Act, 1875, Victoria Square and Juvenal
Dwellings built, and other blocks under the Act of 1890,
Parts I. and III., Arley Street Dwellings, Gildarts
Gardens Dwellings, and St. Martin's Cottages.
2. Manchester Adopted. Dwellings erected in 1894 and 1899. Harrison
Street £16,980; Oldham Road, Block I. £25,114;
Chester Street £11,750; Pott Street £16,756.
3 Birmingham Adopted, February, 1891. No steps yet taken, but houses
have been erected under the A. L. D. I. Acts, 1875.
4. Leeds Not adopted.
5. Sheffield Adopted, 1899. Land purchased, plans preparing.
6. Bristol Adopted, 1899. Land acquired.