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APPENDICES.
HOUSING CONDITIONS.
STATISTICS.
Year ending 31st December, 1921.
1.—General.
Estimated Population 136,307
General Death Rate 11.7
Death Rate from Tuberculosis 1.52
Infantile Mortality 62
Number of dwelling.houses of all classes 26,428
Number of working.class dwelling.houses 22,289
Number of new working.class houses erected 202
2.—Unfit Dwelling.houses.
1.—Inspection.
Total number of dwelling.houses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 7,649
Number of dwelling.houses which were inspected
and recorded under the Housing (Inspection of
District) Regulations, 1910 2,800
Number of dwelling.houses found to be in a state so
dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit
for human habitation 20
Number of dwelling.houses (exclusive of those referred
to under the preceding sub.heading) found not
to be in all respects reasonably fit for human
habitation 1,047