View report page

106
are made with the Clinical Research Association, Ltd., and have been
well used during 1919.
HOUSING.
I. General Housing Conditions.
(1) Number of Houses 2475
„ for Working Classes 2180
Number of New Houses „ erected in 1919 None
„ „ „ in course of erection None
(2) Population, estimated 11431
Changes in 1919—Estimated increase 450
Changes anticipated in the future Slight Increase
(3) a. Extent of shortage of Houses 250
b. Measures taken or contemplated to meet this
shortage Housing Scheme for 250 houses
II. Overcrowding.
(1) Extent, a. Tenements with more than two occupants per
room 39
b. Number of houses intended for one family only
now occupied by two or more 96
(2) Causes, a. General Shortage of Houses.
b. Immigration from other districts of a considerable
number of people.
(3) Measures contemplated to deal with above:—Erection of New
Houses.
(4) Principal Cases of Overcrowding dealt with in 1919 and action
taken:— One case in which Statutory Notice was served under
Public Health Acts, and in which the order was complied with.
III. Fitness of Houses.
(1) a. General Standard of Housing in the Fair