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of about £20,000 which is expended on various items of work by
suggestion and verbal arrangements, making a total of about
£100,000 compulsorily spent on the maintenance of properties
through the Sanitary Department.
"The Committee will remember that when presenting to the
Council the five years' programme in 1930, it was estimated that
11,575 houses would be repaired during the next five years.
"Each quarter a return, showing my progress in this matter,
is requested by the Ministry of Health, and up to the end of
December, 1934, the number of houses repaired was 10,106.
"This figure represents 17 quarterly returns, and on the foregoing
basis, the number of houses which will be repaired in the next'
three quarters, viz., to the end of September this year, added to the
foregoing, will slightly exceed my estimate given five years ago."
House-to-House Inspections.
During 1934, house-to-house inspections were carried out in
the following streets:—
Woodend Road.
Kitchener Road.
Marlowe Road.
Ruby Road.
Oakfield Road.
Higham Hill Road.
Pasquier Road.
Renness Road.
Carlton Road.
Fairfield Road.
Colville Road.
Hamilton Road.
Worcester Road.
Queen Elizabeth Road.
Parts of:—
Exmouth Road.
Edinburgh Road.
Chelmsford Road.
Maynard Road.
Somers Road.
Campbell Road.
Jewel Road.
Glenthorne Road.
(b) General.
During the year all letters addressed to the Public Health
Department in support of applications for rehousing were acknowledged
and forwarded to the Housing Manager for the attention of
the Housing Committee.
Housing Department.
Mr. J. E. West, your Council's Housing Manager, has contributed
the following:—
"The Housing Register, which was closed by resolution of the
Council in December, 1933, has diminished only very slightly in
the number of applicants still requiring houses, and the Register