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SECOND SLUM CLEARANCE PROGRAMME.
Whilst the work of carrying into effect the first slum clearance
programme was in progress, Local Authorities were requested by
the Ministry of Health again to review the "Housing Needs" of
their Areas and to extend their Slum Clearance Programmes by
bringing forward proposals for dealing with those properties
scheduled in the second scheme at an earlier date.
As a result, the second programme, which contained a list of
83 premises, was reviewed and extended by the addition of 38
dwellings—making a total of 121-containing 453 occupants.
The detailed surveys of premises were made and special
reports, together with the necessary representations as to unfitness,
were submitted to the Health Committee in September last.
All these properties were visited and inspected by the Health
Committee before the "formal resolutions" were submitted to the
Council for confirmation.
The Health Committee considered that the most satisfactory
way of dealing with the properties in the eleven Areas was to
demolish them and the Council decided to declare the areas as
Clearance Areas.
The following is a list of the properties with the number of
occupants in each block:—