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12
Want of proper attention at birth 4
Accidental suffocation in bed with parents 1
Overlain 1
Manslaughter 1
Drowning 1
Suicide (4 coal gas poisoning, 1 taking
spirits of salts, 1 cyanide of potassium
poisoning, 1 acetic acid poisoning, 2
run over by railway locomotives, 1 fall
from window) 10
INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST
(RESTRICTIONS) ACT, 1920.
The medical officer of health issued 10 certificates during
the year.
HOUSING.
One hundred and forty-two houses erected under the Council's
Scheme, all of Type B, are now in occupation.
STATEMENT, required by Article V. of the Housing
(Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910, in regard to
the inspection of dwelling-houses under section 17 (1) of
the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909.
Number of dwelling-houses inspected under
and for the purposes of the section 1039
Number of such dwelling-houses which were
considered to be in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation 1
Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which representations were made to the
local authority with a view to the making
of closing orders 1
Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which closing orders were made by the
local authority 1
Number of dwelling-houses the defects in
which were remedied without the making
of closing orders 695
Number of dwelling-houses which, after the
making of closing orders, were made fit for
human habitation Nil.
General character of the defects found to
exist in the dwelling-houses inspected Leaking drains; broken
lating pipes; w.c. flushing
cisterns and pipes out of order;
cracked and broken w.c. pans;
broken, cracked and porous
scullery sinks and waste pipes;
leaking roofs; absence of, or
broken paving around houses;
holes in plaster of ceilings and
walls; damp walls; want of
ventilation under ground floors;
general uncleanly conditions.