View report page

29
6
11
14
103
2.2
8
15
14
45
15
..
,,
,,
,,
Part
,,
,,
All
,,
,,
Hooker's Place
Orchard Place
Sharp's Cottages
Park End
Croft Road
Palace Road
Bromley Gardens
Devonshire Sq.
Napier Road
Prospcct Place
Martin's Hill, No. I.
,,
,,
,,
Plaistow.
Sumlridge.
Town.
,,
,,
,,
503
There were comparatively few applications from
tenants under the Increase of Rent (Restrictions) Act, with
reference to houses which were not in reasonable repair.
The reasons for this probably were the dislike of tenants for
anything savouring of legal proceedings, and the fact that
agents and owners appear to act more promptly now in
carrying out repairs than formerly, especially if declared
necessary by a sanitary notice. Moreover, the tenants appear
to hold the opinion that a complaint to the saniitarv
department is the most effective and least troublesome
method of getting house repairs carried out.
It is difficult to form a close estimate of the cost of
repairs carried out, as indicated in Table (c), because such
items as "Repairs to stoves" often mean a new kitchen
stove or range costing £."6 or more, and frequently a stove
-is repaired at much less cost. Similarly with regard to the
902 rooms re-decorated, the cost in some cases would be
20/- or less, in others 40/- or more. Some of the floor repairs
would cost per room, and others much less. It
may be said, however, that visits to 1,110 houses resulted
in necessary remedial work being carried out in 700 of