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with comprise 'vans' in the Wall End encampment. Tenders
for the construction of 42 replacement houses on the Bonny Downs
housing site were being considered at the close of the year. Fourteen
caravans were included in the Clearance Areas in respect of
which Orders were confirmed.
During the year 21 houses were closed or demolished for
industrial purposes, and two parts of houses were closed and 10
houses demolished under the Housing Acts.
(c) Maintenance of Houses.
House-to-house inspection was almost completely suspended
during the first quarter of the year, on account of the overcrowding
survey, but despite this deferment, 3,928 houses were inspected
under the Housing Regulations. Other inspections of houses
numbered 2,141, and of the total (6,069), 4,503 were found
defective. A total of 3,355 were repaired in accordance with the
requisitions of the department, and the improvements effected
thereby are set out on Page 106. At the close of the year works
were in progress at nearly three-fourths of the remaining houses
found defective. The more thorough type of inspection, the
systematising of the house-to-house inspections, improved system
of keeping statistics, and the adoption of a uniform specification
are factors contributing to the general qualitative improvement in
housing maintenance in the district.
The Housing statistics are included in the following statement:—
Housing Statistics.
Housing Statistics.
I.—Inspection of Dwelling-houses during the Year: —
(1) (a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 6,069
(b) Number of inspections made for the purpose 24,628
(2) (a) Number of dwelling-houses (included under Sub-head
(1) above) which were inspected and recorded
under the Housing Consolidated Regulations,
1925 3,928
(b) Number of inspections made for the purpose 13,125
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so
dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for
human habitation 48
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred
to under the preceding sub-head) found not to be
in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation 4,503