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house, and the floors soon become dirty again after
cleansing.
The bakehouses have been lime-washed during the
year.
Housing.
The inspection of houses under the Inspection of
District Regulations is progressing and complete records
should be available by the end of 1914 for houses within
the limit of rent applicable to the District under Sec.
14 of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, viz.,
£16 per annum.
There are about 500 houses in the district falling
within the scope of the Regulations. All have been
inspected since your inspector was appointed in 1905,
some many times. Records have been kept of the
nuisances discovered and the action taken for their abatement.
There is a demand for cheap houses in the district
but little likelihood of them being provided by private
enterprise, for the tendency is for the erection of flats
in the South Ward and " maisonettes " in the Central
and North Wards. The labouring class of the population
in this district still keep to the areas mentioned in my
previous reports, but there is not so much overcrowding.
Many houses have more than one family occupying where
the sanitary accommodation is really only sufficient for
one family. These houses do not fall within the scope
of our "Tenement Byelaws " on account of the rent
* limit and it is doubtful whether " Byelaws " are of any
use in these cases. The best way is to deal with defects
as they arise under the nuisance clauses of the Public
Health Acts, and your inspector has found that much may
be done by verbal advice given at the time of inspection.
It has been necessary to make two representations of
houses as unfit for human habitation respecting the two
old wooden houses on the Great North Road. These
houses are delapidated and one of them particularly
dirty. They have no proper water supply. A closing
order has been made and application has been made to
the Magistrates to remove the occupiers, so far without
success.