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(2) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which
Closing Orders were determined, the dwelling-
houses having been rendered fit Nil
(3) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which
Demolition Orders were made Nil
(4) Number of dwelling-houses demolished in
suance of Demolition Orders Nil
(b) General.
Your Council decided during the course of the year to allocate,
for special consideration in respect of rehousing, on medical grounds,
10 per cent, of the new houses erected.
Up to the end of the year recommendations had been confined
to urgent cases of infectious pulmonary tuberculosis (i.e., T.B.
plus cases). Dr. Sorley, the Tuberculosis Officer, has co-operated
heartily in providing the fullest information about the housing
conditions of the patients.
At the end of the year four tuberculous cases had been rehoused,
one case had been rejected, whilst in two cases the rent of a Council
house could not be paid.
Unfortunately, the most needy cases, both on grounds of health
and overcrowding, are only too frequently those which cannot pay
the necessarily higher rent. The provision of accommodation at
between eight and ten shillings per week is an increasingly urgent
problem for such cases.
In addition to cases recommended for rehousing on medical
grounds, 112 letters of application for Council houses which have been
sent to the Public Health Department have been replied to and
forwarded for the attention of the Housing Committee.
Plans are now before the Ministry of Health, awaiting approval,
in respect of 70 houses (20 special type for aged couples, 24 of two
bedrooms, 20 of three bedrooms, and 6 of four bedrooms), for the
purpose of rehousing tenants to be displaced from the various areas
and individual houses which have been scheduled for clearance under
Part I of the Housing Act, 1930.
No new applications for Council houses had been accepted for
some years until the register was reopened on 1st October.
Mr. J. E. West, your Council's Housing Manager, has kindly
supplied the information for the following:—