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In addition to the action reported above:—
(i) 31 insanitary houses have been demolished in
anticipation of formal procedure under Section 19.
(ii) 2,785 houses have been made fit as the result of
informal notice preliminary to formal notice under
Section 17.
The following statistics are of interest:—
Number of new houses etc. erected during the year 1936,:—
(1) Total number of new houses and flats erected within
the Borough 520
(2) Number of new houses erected by the Local
Authority with State assistance under the Housing
Acts:—
(a) Within the Borough (included in (1) above) —
(b) Outside the Borough area 58
(3) Number of houses and flats now owned by the
Council and let to members of the working classes:
(a) Within the Borough 1,034
(b) Outside the Borough 486
Total 1,520
N.B.—The Council have a Differential Rent Scheme in
operation whereby necessitous cases are enabled to enjoy a
lower rental than the normal during periods of unemployment
or other distress.
By reason of the fact that the systematic inspection of
houses of the artisan type has for years past been a special
feature of the work of the department, the general fitness from a
sanitary point of view of this type of house within the Borough
is of a very fair standard.
Appended is a tabular statement of this work carried out
under the Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1925.
From this it will be seen that 810 houses were inspected under
the above-mentioned Regulations during the year.