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Bye-laws.—Action was taken by the Sanitary Inspector on ten
occasions under the Bye-laws with respect to Tents, Vans, Sheds, etc.
Factories and Workshops.—Under action taken by the Council
two new W.Os. were provided, 11 were cleansed, and five urinals were
cleansed at factories, one bakehouse was re-constructed, and three
bakehouses and 15 other workshops were cleansed and limewashed.
Schools.—Each of the four Elementary Schools has a water
supply from the public mains, and is provided with water-closets
draining to the sewers. Notices are sent to the Head Teachers on
the receipt of notifications of infectious disease occurring in a house
in which there are children attending school, and the teachers report
the absence or exclusion of any children on account of infectious or
contagious disease; in such cases the Health Visitor of the County
Council inspects the children at the schools and visits their homes.
I visited the sqhools and advised, at the time of prevalence of infectious
disease.
(4) Housing.
General Housing Conditions.—The figures relating to housing at
the Census, 1921, will toe found on pages 3 and 4. At the Census, 1911,
there were 2,369 private families, with a population of 10,338 persons,
in 2,235 houses; in 1921 there were 3,017 families, with a population of
12,433, in 2,751 houses. The number of persons per house had,
therefore, fallen from 4.62 to 4.52, but there was an increase in the
number of families per house from 1.06 to nearly 1.09.
In order to meet the shortage of houses revealed by the survey of
the District in 1919, the Council decided to build1 200 houses, and the
scheme, consisting of 188 houses on the Culvers Estate, 11 in
Nightingale Road, four in Green Wrythe Lane, two in William Street,
and five fiats in Stanley Road, was completed in 1922. Applications
for houses continued to be received, and the Council accordingly
erected six houses in William Street, four in St. James Road, four in
Palmerston Road, ten in Avenue Road, and four in Stanley Road, and
four flats in Aultone Way and four in Stanley Road, under the Housing
Act, 1923. Tenders were also received for the erection of four houses
in St. Andrew's Road and eight in Stanley road, and negotiations were
proceeding at the end of the year. The Council purchased 18 acres of
land in Stanley Park Road in 1925, as a site for additional houses.
At the end of 1925 the District Council had advanced the sum of
£266,710 in loans under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act and the
Housing Act, 1925, in respect of 370 houses, and had issued 13
subsidies at £75 and 100 at £100.
In the five years 1,065 houses in all were erected in the District,
viz., 160 in 1921, 137 in 1922, 107 in 1923, 285 in 1924, and 376 in
1925.