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4. Housing Act, 1936, Part IV—(Overcrowding).
(a) (1) Number of dwelling houses overcrowded at end of
year 79
(2) Number of families dwelling therein 79
(3) Number of persons* dwelling therein 562
(£>) Number of new cases reported during the year 50
(c) (1) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during
the year 63
(2) Number of persons* concerned in such cases .. 399
(d) Particulars of any cases in which dwelling houses
have again become overcrowded after the local
authority have taken steps for the abatement of
overcrowding —
* As defined by Section 58 (2) of the Housing Act, 1936.
Slum Clearance.
The Order made by the Council in connection with Clearance
Area No. 6—West Street, involving 6 dwellings and the displacement
of 20 persons, was confirmed by the Minister of Health
during the year. The premises to re-house these people are now in
course of erection and when this scheme is complete the number of
dwellings demolished under Clearance Schemes since 1930 will be
64, involving the re-housing of 481 persons.
Two houses were demolished by informal action during the
year, birnging the number of dwellings individually demolished
since 1930 up to 21.
Housing Act, 1936—Overcrowding.
At the survey of overcrowding completed in the early days of
1936 173 houses, involving 1162 equivalent adults, were found to
be overcrowded. By the beginning of 1938 the number of dwellings
remaining overcrowded was 92, housing 633 equivalent adults.
During the year under review, a net reduction of 13 in the overcrowded
dwellings and of 71 equivalent adults was affected, leaving
79 dwellings, housing 562 equivalent adults, still to be decrowded
at the end of the year. The net reduction of 13 cases was brought
about as follows "—
66