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There are at present no cottages to be rented.
There are 92 to allot for sale.
Overcrowding has been discovered in 31 cottages.
(2) Causes.—Increase of population; too high a
rental for those cottages erected since 1918.
(3) Measures Taken.—Vide I. (2), (b).
(4) Cases.—Vide II. (1). No action as to
crowding has been taken.
III.—Fitness of Houses.
(1) (a) General Standard of Housing:—With the
exception of eleven cottages, the standard is
reasonably good.
(b) General Character of Defects found to
exist in Unfit Houses.—Of the eleven mentioned
under (a), seven consist of one room on
ground floor, a lean-to scullery behind large
enough to contain steps leading to one bedroom
; five others are similar, but have a larger
scullery and staircase and rwo bedrooms.
In the case of the seven and the five cottages,
there is a water standpipe for common use* and
the common use of five water-closets. Any
marked unfitness in the cottages is due chiefly
to defects in roofs, guttering, and the plaster
on inside walls, and, to slighter extent, dampness
in walls.
(c) There is rarely any difficulty in getting the
owners to execute the necessary repairs. There
is a considerable amount of dirty walls due to
neglect by tenants; sub-letting also causes further
dirt and neglect.
(2) General Action Taken as regards Unfit
Houses under—
(a) The Public Health Acts:—Serving notices on
owners and seeing them carried out.
(b) Vide "Housing Statistics."