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Section 4.
Housing.
The problem of Housing still presents its difficulties; there continues
to be a scarcity of housing accommodation for room-dwellers at
rentals which they can pay. During the year effect was given to the
new Tenement House By-laws by the appointment of a Sanitary Inspector
whose duties were to carry out the obligations implied by their approval,
and Inspector J. F. Armstrong took up his duties on March 7th. A
system has been evolved by which, after the necessary particulars have
been supplied by the Tenant, the Inspector visits the premises, verifies
the details, measures up the rooms, etc.; and a Register is being compiled
of all the houses affected by the new tenement house by-laws. By the
end of the year 1927 the following premises had been inspected and
placed upon the Register:—
Ariel Road 1
Back Lane 1, 3 and 5
Belsize Road 151
Bolton Road 13 and 33
Fleet Road 31-63, odd numbers
56
Iverson Road 49 and 65
Kelson Street 32
Loveridge Road 17,30, 51,47,86 and 88
Lowfield Road 1-53, odd numbers
2-40, even „
Netherwood Street 29-47, odd „
73, 79 and 89
46
New End Square 9
Palmerston Road 1-41, consecutive „
81 and 82
Stanley Gardens 33
Upper Park Road 62-76, even „
47-69, odd
I estimate there are somewhere between one and two thousand
houses which should be registered under these by-laws, and it will be
noted that progress under our system is slow and may require in the
future some assistance if the work is to be expedited. I have hesitated
hitherto to recommend any increase in the staff for two reasons, first, to