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SECTION D.- HOUSING.
(i) OVERCROWDING.- No notices were served during
1959.
(ii) CLEARANCE AREAS.- Two areas we re declared
by the Council to be Clearance Areas, in 1959.
The Council makes a grant of £5 towards the removal
expenses of any family required to move from a house to
which a demolition or closing order applies.
(iii) HOUSING STATISTICS.
1. Inspection of dwelling-houses during
the year:-
(1) (a) Total number of dwelling-houses
inspected for housing defects
(under Public Health or Housing
Acts) 1,993
(b) Number of inspections made for
the purpose 18,598
(2) (a) Number of dwelling-houses
cluded under sub-head (l)above)
which were inspected
and recorded under the Housing
Consolidated Regulations,
1925 and 1932 6
(b) Number of inspections made for
the purpose 12
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to
be in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit
for human habitation 46
(4) Number of dwelling-houses
sive of those referred to under
the preceding sub-head)found
not to be in all respects reasonably
fit for human habitation 335