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18
Water service pipes repaired 32
Gutters repaired or renewed 16
Walls repointed or rendered and dampness in first-floor rooms
remedied 18
Window sills repaired 3
Cleanliness:—
Verminous rooms disinfested 60
Dirty rooms, etc., cleansed 6
W.C.'s cleansed 3
Miscellaneous:—
Houses with floor joists, etc., repaired 37
Houses with skirtings repaired 4
Houses with yard or forecourt paved or repaired 4
Houses with plaster repaired 68
Houses with new sinks provided 2
Houses with window frames, etc., repaired 6
Houses with miscellaneous defects remedied 21
Houses with doors and frames repaired or renewed 5
Houses with front and back steps repaired 11
Houses with stairs repaired 7
Houses with fireplace jambs and mantels repaired 3
Heating stove flues repaired 23
Heating stoves repaired or renewed 7
Hearths and surrounds repaired or renewed 6
Smoke nuisances abated 5
New sashcords provided 23
Cowls to chimneys renewed or repaired 4
Dustbins provided 63
Staircase handrails repaired 3
Ballustrades repaired 1
Cellar steps repaired 1
Accumulations removed 7
Under eaves soffits repaired 2
Airbricks provided or renewed 7
Wasps nests destroyed 5
HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS ACT, 1954
Little use was made of this Act. Applications for certificates of disrepair
received were four which were granted. Applications for revocation of certificates
received and granted were two, compared with 14 applications for disrepair
certificates and 28 for revocation certificates dealt with during 1955.
HOUSING—CLEARANCE OF UNFIT HOUSES
The Medical Officer of Health made representations in respect of eight
houses during the year. One dwellinghouse subject to a Demolition Order made
under Section 11, Housing Act, 1936, was demolished during the year.