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Two lists of outworkers employed by firms within but
who are living outside the district. These lists were sent to
the Councils concerned.
Five addresses of outworkers living in the district
received from other Councils.
The outworkers premises were visited in compliance
with the Act, but in no case has any infectious disease
occurred in them, and the conditions of the workers were
satisfactory.
Tables giving particulars of Factory and Workshop
appear on pages 27 to 29.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT, 1909.
INSANITARY PROPERTY.
Thirteen houses have been condemned during the past
year as unfit for human habitation. The total condemned since
my appointment, a period of 4 years, is 118.
The following are the particulars of the action taken
during the year with regard to the individual properties condemned,
and also the property condemned in the previous
year, but in respect of which no action had been taken up to
the end of that year.
The number of houses reported upon in the previous
year which had not received attention up to the end of the
year, or which were in hand at the end of the year, was 19.
These have been dealt with as follows :—
Nos. 1 and 2, Bennett's Cottages, Wellhouse Lane.
At the request of the owner the consideration of the
question of the demolition of this property was held over
from last year.
When the matter was again brought up for consideration,
the owner not having taken any steps in the meantime with
regard to the property and having no scheme to place before
the Council, it was resolved to order the demolition of the
cottages. Notices to this effect were served upon the owner,
who demolished the property.
Nos. 1 to 15, Gladstone Place (\5 houses).
This property, which was reported to the Council in the
previous year, had not received attention, owing to the
trustees being in different parts of the world.