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London County Council 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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1919, 1923 and 1924, respectively. Each of the first three sections is further subdivided
between clearance schemes and dwellings.
The "Clearance schemes" sub-sections of the accounts cover only the acquisition
and clearance of unhealthy areas. The "Dwellings" sub-sections deal with the
dwellings both for rehousing and for housing on estates under Part III.
A.—Non-Assisted Schemes.
This section comprises the accounts of schemes carried out by the Council
without financial assistance from the State. With one exception (Calverley House,
provided to rehouse persons displaced from property acquired for a school site), the
whole of the non-assisted dwellings were erected prior to the enactment of the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919. The section includes all schemes, whether
for the clearance of unhealthy areas or for the erection of dwellings and, as regards the
latter, whether they have been erected under the provisions of the Housing Acts,
or to provide the rehousing accommodation required by Acts authorising street
improvements and other works.
Clearance schemes.—In the year 1924-25, the deficiency on clearance schemes,
mainly debt charges on the capital cost of acquiring and clearing the sites, establishment
charges, and items in connection with surplus property, was £42,227 9s. 3d.,
and this sum has been charged to the special countv rate account.

Working-class dwellings.—The results of the years working compared with those of the previous year are as follows—

Dwellings-1924-25.1923-24.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890—£s.d.£s.d.
Parts I and II.Surplus 22,371117Surplus 20,292112
Part IIISurplus 27,30955Surplus 18,59267
Total—Housing ActSurplus 49,68017-Surplus 38,884179
Improvement, etc., ActsSurplus 15,053168Surplus 13,505112
Total— Non-assisted Schemes. .Surplus 64,734138Surplus 52,390811

The surplus (£49,680 17s.) for 1924-25 on the dwellings erected under the
Housing Act, together with the balance brought forward at 1st April, 1924 (£62,989
7s. 2d.), which was held in reserve, together amount to £112,670 4s. 2d. Of
this sum £18,441 3s. 2d. is applied to meet the deficiences for the year
1924-25 in respect of certain operations under Assisted (1923) schemes, the balance
(£94,229 1s.) being carried forward as a reserve towards meeting the deficiencies
which will arise on future housing operations of the Council under the Act of 1923.
The net surplus for the year on dwellings erected under Improvement, etc.,
Acts, is £15,053 16s. 8d. Of this, £14,961 13s. 8d. is transferable to the General
County Account and £102 1s. 9d. to the Tramways Account (rehousing in connection
with Greenwich power station), while £9 18s. 9d. is contributed from the Education
Account to meet a deficiency in respect of rehousing in connection with displacements
from a school site.
B.—Assisted Scheme—Housing, etc., Act, 1919.
This section comprises the whole of the Council's operations under the first
(Addison) Assisted Scheme, and, as provided in the Act, includes the losses incurred
by the metropolitan borough councils, together with the transactions relating to
the issue by the Council of Local Bonds for Housing for the purpose of financing the
schemes of the borough councils. The Council's Housing Accounts thus embody
the financial results of all the schemes subject to the 1919 Act for the County of
London as a whole. The annual deficiency (as approved by the Minister of Health)