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These Bye-laws make registerable certain houses let in lodgine,
and provide for their inspection, cleansing, and the number of
occupants they are to contain. In actual practice, as overcrowded
families are housed in the new Council houses so are their previous
premises let to new families who come into the District, and the
previous condition of overcrowding remains. In three years time
these new families are eligible for Council houses, and should they
obtain them, a still further batch of new residents enter and overcrowd
the same premises. Thus a vicious circle is obtained, and
the improvement which the Council should get by building new
houses is not obtained.
This could be remedied if all houses let in lodging were
registered and visited by my Staff. So far it has not been possible
to carry this out, as it would need an extra Sanitary Inspector
and an extra Clerk.
I trust that in the near future these may be obtained in order
that the overcrowding at present pertaining in Enfield may be
abated as new houses are erected.
The number of new houses erected during the year was:—
(a) Total 646
(b) With State assistance under the Housing Acts,
(1) By the Local Authority 322
(ii) By other bodies or persons 1
Without State assistance 323
1. Unfit Dwelling-houses.
Inspection—(1) Total number of dwelling-houses
inspected for housing defects (under Public
Health or Housing Acts) 2,814
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were inspected
and recorded under the Housing Consolidated
Regulations, 1925 540