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CLEARANCE AREAS.
1935 marks the rehousing of the first tenants from clearance areas.
Prior to the removal to the new houses, the whole of the furniture and
bedding was disinfested.
A further step was taken with the five year programme. Clearance
Areas were defined, and after local inquiries by officers of the Ministry
of Health, clearance orders were confirmed with respect to 98-120,
Tewkesbury Road; 1-10 and 5a, James Place; 1-6, Vine Road; 2 and 4,
52 and 1-19 (odd numbers), Love Lane; Rose Cottage and 1-7, Orchard
Place; 1 and 2, Old Lane; 1-7 and Vine Cottage, Princes Street; 158168,
White Hart Lane: 1-5, 7-12 and 11a, Queen Street; 1, 2 and 3,
Ivy Terrace and 1 and 2, Rose Cottages, Queen Street; 1-6, Waterloo
Place, Reform Row.
Official representations were also made with respect to four individual
houses, making a total for the year of 93 houses, the persons to be displaced
being 435. The total number of houses closed from 1932 to the
end of 1935 was 250, occupied by 1,010 persons. The total number of
families rehoused to December 1935 was 34, representing 141 persons.
The four individual houses dealt with were 2, Moulding's Cottages,
Waggon Lane, 61a, Markfield Road, 680, High Road, and 6, Love Lane.
2, Moulding's Cottages and 61a, Markfield Road will be demolished when
vacant, and the Council have accepted undertakings that 680, High Road
and 6, Love Lane will not again be used for human habitation.
HOUSE INSPECTION.
The Chief Sanitary Inspector reports to me as follows in relation to
the sanitary administration of the Borough :—
The number of houses inspected during the year amounted to 4,588:—
1,442 were house-to-house inspections;
2,280 were upon complaint;
866 were consequent upon the occurrence of infectious disease.