View report page

17
2. Remedy of defects during the year without service of
formal Notices:—
Number of defective dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence
of informal action by the Local Authority
or their officers 714*
3. Action under Statutory Powers during the year:—
a. No proceedings were taken under Sections 9, 10
and 16 of the Housing Act, 1936.
b. Proceedings under Public Health Acts:—
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which
notices were served requiring defects to be remedied 39
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in which defects were
remedied after service of formal notices:—
(a) By owners 38
(b) By local authority in default of owners —
c & d. No proceedings were taken under Section 11,
12 and 13 of the Housing Act, 1936.
4. Housing Act, 1936, Part IV—Overcrowding:—
(а) (i) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end of
the year 3
(ii) Number of families dwelling therein 4
(iii) Number of persons dwelling therein 14½
(b) Number of new cases of overcrowding reported during
the year 8
(c) (i) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during
the year 5
(ii) Number of persons concerned in such cases .. 27
(d) Particulars of any case9 in which dwelling-houses
have again become overcrowded after the Local
Authority have taken steps for the abatement of
overcrowding —
(e) Any other particulars with respect to overcrowding
conditions upon which the Medical Officer of
Health may consider it desirable to report .. —
*Includes compliances during 1944 of Notices served prior to 1st January,
1944.
HOUSING ACT, 1936.
During the year 1944, the work of receiving applications, calling for
calculations for the "permitted number," was continued with a view to
the issue of housing certificates. One temporary clerk was employed.
Altogether applications were received in respect of 15,910 houses. At
the end of the year the total certificates issued to date numbered 18,090
in respect of 24,579 houses. Where no application for a certificate was
received for the permitted number arising from the 1935 survey, lists were
forwarded to the Town Clerk, who communicated in 1,343 cases with the
persons responsible, pointing out the requirements of the Act. Of this
number, 1,338 were received up to 31st December, 1944, and the balance
of 5 is receiving attention.
As new premises were constructed and placed upon the rating lists,
these lists were obtained and survey forms sent with a view to the issue of
"permitted number" certificates, and in all, new premises (not enumerated
under the 1935 survey) have been dealt with to the extent of 8,201.