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Chapter XXXVI.
Housing Accounts and Statistics.
Housing Accounts.
Memorandum
by the
Comptroller.
These accounts (see Appendix XIV.) are issued, subject to audit, in advance of the Annual
Accounts of the Council for the year ending 31st March, 1911. They comprise all the dwellings and
lodging houses erected or owned by the Council. These dwellings are provided either (a) under the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (Parts I., .11. and III.), or (b) under Improvement Acts.
and Summary of
results of
year.

The surplus on dwellings for 1909-10 was £1,107 lis. Id., and the deficiency on estates in
course of development £7,224 10s. 5d.
The deficiency shown was met to the extent of £181 3s. Id. out of the Tramways Account in
respect of a proportion of the deficiency on Hughes Fields Dwellings (Greenwich Generating
Station rehousing), the remainder being met out of the rates. Owing, however, to balances in hand
at the beginning of the year the contribution to the rates was actually in excess of the contribution
from the rates.
Housing Act
1890.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
The Council's operations under the Housing Act comprise (a) dwellings erected under Parts
I. and II. of the Act to provide rehousing accommodation for persons displaced by schemes for the
clearance of insanitary areas, and (b) dwellings erected under Part III. of the Act to provide
accommodation for persons of the working class, apart from any displacements. Dwellings erected
under Parts I. and II. represent, therefore, compulsory provision for rehousing under statutory
obligations, whereas dwellings under Part III. represent housing accommodation voluntarily providec
by the Council. In certain instances of compulsory rehousing it has been necessary to erect dwellings
on sites, on the working of which, owing to their character or situation, an unfavourable financia
result was anticipated from the first. These cases are separately shown in the accounts.
The account under Part III. is sub-divided to show the results of the dwellings apart
from the debt charges on estates in course of development, which are referred to in a subsequent
paragraph.

Income.
The deficiency on dwellings under Part III. includes £1,404 17s. 6d. in respect of Carrington
House, a lodging-house erected under Part III. but in fulfilment of rehousing obligations in connection
with the Mill-lane, Deptford, scheme under Part II.
The gross rental for the year from dwellings under the Housing Act was £146,750 lis. lOd
Deducting therefrom allowances for empties, caretakers' quarters and amounts irrecoverable, the
net rental amounted to £130,362 15s. 2d., exclusive of £597 10s. 8d. for interest on cash balances,
The amount of rent irrecoverable was £223 18s. 6d., or only 0*15 per cent, of the gross rental. The
total loss of income due to " empties " was £15,133 14s. 7d., or 10*32 per cent, of the gross rental,
as against 10'32 per cent, in 19C9-10. The greater part of this loss occurred on five estates, viz.