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Since the completion of the survey and the preparation of the
re-housing scheme, a number of families have vacated the overcrowded
dwellings and found improved accommodation.
The new houses are to be built on the Ham Estate and
building works should be in operation before the autumn of 1937.
Closure, of Unfit Underground Rooms-
Further progress has been made during the year with regard
to the practice of sub-letting basements or underground rooms to
families for living or sleeping purposes, which constitutes another
slum housing problem. Detailed inspections of these rooms or
parts of dwellings reveal the most unhealthy conditions due to
dampness, darkness and lack of adequate sanitary provisions.
Under Section 20 of the Housing Act, 1930, action has been
taken to close as a separate tenement, those underground rooms
which by virtue of sub-section (1) of Section 18 of the principal
Act, has been deemed to be unfit for human habitation.
The following premises were reported during the year :—
3, Pyrland Road.
47, Sheen Road.
15, Onslow Road.
4, Park Hill,