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For securing the adequate lighting of every room in such
houses.
Much useful and effective work has been done during the year
in the operation of the Housing Statutes with the Regulations and
Byelaws pertaining thereto. The following is a list of the premises
dealt with:—
2, Park Hill. Basement Tenement. Closing Order made.
21, Park Road. „ „ „ „ „
19, Church Road. „ „ „ „ „
92, Queen's Road. „ „ „ „ „
28, Richmond Hill. „ „ „ „ „
48, Queen's Road. „ „ „ „ „
9, Church Road. „ „ „ „ „
1, Warrington Road. „ „ „ „ „
2, Warrington Road. (Underground Sleeping Room). Written undertaking
given to make premises
habitable within
specified time.
4, Warrington Road. Basement Tenement. „
6, Warrington Road. „ „ „
91, Church Road. (Underground Sleeping Room). Closing Order made.
Housing Inspections. Power of Local Authority to require
repair of insanitary houses.
Systematic house to house inspections have been carried out
during the year in accordance with the Housing Act, and all
dwellings occupied by the working classes, or of a type suitable for
occupation by the working classes, found in any respect unfit for
human habitation, have been the subject of notice to repair or
recondition same, when reported upon as being found capable of
repair at reasonable expense, 1,064 dwelling houses were inspected
for housing defects (under the Public Health or Housing
Acts), and 202 of such dwellings were examined and particulars
recorded under the Housing Regulations.