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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.
New working
class
accommodation.
With a view to the Council being kept informed as to the provision of working-class accommodation
in London and the adjoining districts, a return* is prepared each year showing the amount
of new accommodation provided and old accommodation destroyed. The return, which has been
prepared for the year 1902 to 1911 inclusive, gives the number of working-class tenements and rooms
provided in each borough or district and the average rents at which they are let or to be let; and
particulars of the demolitions which have taken place in each district are also given separately. The
return for 1911 shows that the number of rooms in new dwellings provided during the year in the
County of London was 5,204, the number of rooms in dwellings demolished 4,969, and that the net
addition to the number of rooms was therefore 235. The figures in respect of the adjoining districts
were 15,680, 807, and 14,873 respectively. The average rents for each room at which the new
dwellings were let or to be let were, during 1911, 3s. 0½d. in the central districts of London, 2s. 7¼d.
in the outer districts of London and 2s. 3½d. in the extra-London districts.
History of
housing
question.
A revised account of the Council's housing work up to 31st December, 1912, has recently been
published, †
* New working-class accommodation.
†Housing of the Working Classes in London, 1855-1912.