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OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES.
No action was found to be necessary in connection with
the above.
Statistics relating to action taken under the Housing
Acts have been prepared on lines suggested in Circular
1728 issued by the Minister of Health and are shewn on
pages 24 and 25. In addition, the summaries that have
appeared in previous annual reports shewing the action
taken in regard to (a) clearance areas, and (b) "individual"
houses found to be unfit for human habitation, have been
revised again to shew the positions at the end of 1938.
The following table gives particulars of building development
during the year :—
(1) Number of new houses erected by the
Corporation during the year ended 31st
December, 1938 38 Houses
12 2-Bedroom
Flats
(2) Number of houses erected by private
enterprise during the year ended 31st
December, 1938 96 Houses
150 Flats
(3) Total number of houses for the working-classes
erected by the Corporation
since March, 1924 770 Houses
68 Flats
SECTION D.
HOUSING