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SECTION D.
HOUSING.
(i) Routine Inspections :
Three hundred and seventy visits to premises were made in
connection with the Housing Acts.
(ii) Clearance Areas :
No Clearance Areas were declared during the year.
(iii) Individually Unfit Houses:
Four adjacent houses were dealt with as individually unfit.
(iv) Demolition Orders :
Demolition Orders were made in connection with the premises in
(iii) above.
(V) Overcrowding
The position at the 31st December, with regard to statutory overcrowding,
as defined in the Housing Act, 1936, is as shown in the
following table:—
Number of cases—31st December
31st Dec., 1961
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1560
No. of cases found during the year
No. of cases remedied during year
Cases at end
of year
No. of cases
No. of persons
concerned
Aged over 10
Agedunder 10
Lamorbey
11
9
5
2
2
2
4
3
4
3
2
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
Longlands
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Birchwood
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1
—
1
—
—
—
Frognal
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
1
1
2
1
1
—
1
—
1
—
—
—
North Cray
3
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
St. Paul's
Cray
5
3
3
2
2
4
4
3
3
2
1
2
2
3
1
2
2
12
8
Chislehurst
Common
6
3
1
1
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
Mottingham
15
26
17
13
10
10
11
5
5
4
5
2
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Totals
42
43
27
18
15
17
19
12
13
11
9
7
4
5
1
4
2
12
8
(vi) Defects :
Number of houses inspected for housing defects (Public
Health and Housing Acts) 928
Number of houses found not in all respects fit 403
Number of houses made fit without service of formal
notices 398