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(2) Action taken as regards unfit houses under :
(a) Public Health Acts nil.
(b) Housing Acts vide page 34.
(3) Difficulties in remedying unfitness, special measures
taken and any suggestions in the matter :
Principal difficulty is absence of suitable accommodation
for families displaced by closing or demolition
of unfit houses. Landlords give the price of
materials and cost of labour as reasons for delay
or neglect in the repair of repairable houses.
(4) Conditions, so far as they affect housing, as regards
water supply, closet accommodation and refuse
disposal, together with measures taken during the
year in these matters :
Water supply is on the whole satisfactory.
Closet accommodation is generally adequate, but
defective apparatus is frequently complained of,
whilst in the outlying parts of the district are
some houses not yet connected with the general
sewerage system.
Refuse disposal, partly owing to shortage of vans and
partly owing to many houses being unprovided
with portable ashbins, collections were not made
sufficiently often.
IV. Unhealthy Areas.
(1) Action taken as regards areas represented before the
beginning of the year under Part I. or Part II. of
the Housing Act, 1890 :
Nil.
(2) Particulars of and action taken as regards areas
represented during the year :
None represented.
(3) Information as to complaints made during the year
that areas were unhealthy and action taken :
Nil.