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in this work. These were periodically reported upon at
the meetings of the Public Health and Housing Committee.
The summary for the year under the five headings is
as follows.
Grade 1. In such a state by reason of impossibility
to provide adequate light, ventilation,
floor levels, height and size of rooms, and
other defects of construction, as not to
be capable of remedy, and should be on
a schedule or included in an area 4
Grade 2, Unfit for human habitation by reason of
extensive dilapidations and dirty conditions,
but subjective to effective remedy
under a Closing order 16
Grade 3. Generally dilapidated, damp, dark, and
dirty, but subject to remedy either under
Sec. 28 of the Housing, Town Planning,
etc., Act, 1919, or the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891 479
Grade 4. Few defects, capable of being remedied
under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891 1,231
Grade 5. Satisfactory 1,070
Total 2,800
The above conditions have been recorded by the survey
inspectors, but it is always difficult to draw a hard and fast
line in such an analysis, and the conclusions therefore must
only be regarded as approximate. It must, however, be
appreciated that in connection with the inspection of the