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APPENDICES.
Housing Conditions Statistics. Year ended 31st December, 1923.
1. GENERAL.
(1) Estimated Population Birth rate 48,030
Death rate 46,505
(2) General Death rate 9'8
(3) Death rate from Tuberculosis (all forms) 0 88
(4) Infantile Mortality 54 9
(5) Number of dwelling houses of all classes 9,307
(6) ^Number of working-class dwelling houses 4,698
(7) Number of new working-class houses erected 16
*Number of new houses other than working-class 73
Total number of new houses erected of all classes 89
2. UNFIT DWELLING-HOUSES.
I. Inspection.
(1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected
for housing defects (under Public Health
or Housing Acts 497
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were
inspected and recorded under the Housing
(Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910 nil.
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a
state so dangerous or injurious to health
as to be unfit for human habitation ... nil.
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those
referred to under the preceding subheading)
found not to be in all respects
reasonably fit for human habitation 180
(5) Number of houses, listed for inspection under
the Housing (Inspection of District)
Regulations, 1910, at end of year 1547