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3. Action under statutory powers:
(a) Proceedings under Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925.
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which
notices were served requiring repairs Nil
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were rendered fit
after service of formal notices—
(a) By owners Nil
(b) By Local Authority in default of owners Nil
(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing
Orders became operative in pursuance of declarations by
owners of intention to close Nil
(b) Proceedings under Public Health Acts
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices
were served requiring defects to be remedied (statutory
notices) 49
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in which defects were
remedied after services of formal notices—
(a) By owners 49
(b) By Local Authority in default of owners Nil
(c) Proceedings under Sections 11,14 and 15 of the Housing Act,
1925
(1) Number of representations made with a view to the making
of Closing Orders Nil
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing
Orders were made Nil
(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing
Orders were determined, the dwelling-houses having been
rendered fit Nil
(4) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Demolition
Orders were made Nil
(5) Number of dwelling houses demolished in pursuance of
Demolition Orders Nil
4. Number of houses owned by the Local Authority distinguishing
those built in the last two years under—
(1) Part III. of the Housing Act, 1925 Nil
(2) Part II. of the Housing Act, 1925 Nil
(3) Other powers—
Erected in 1902 52 flats
Housing Act, 1919 112 flats
Housing Act, 1924 18 flats
(b) Housing Conditions.
1. General Observations as to Housing Conditions.—The prevalent type of
house in the part of the Borough occupied by the working classes is of the tenement
class, the standard in general being low. The general tendency throughout the
Borough indeed is and for some time has been to make the single family house into
a dwelling place for more than one family, and whenever the time has come for
getting rid of a house if the site has not been required for commercial purposes
entirely to erect in its stead a block of flats or tenements. Beginning in the
Working-class portions this tendency has spread to the other parts, and since the