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(2) Number of separate tenements or underground
rooms in respect of which Closing Orders were
determined, the tenement or room having been
rendered fit —
Twenty-four Closing Orders in respect of 28 underground rooms were in operation
at the end of the year. Eight undertakings affecting 9 rooms were accepted from
owners not to re-let underground rooms for human habitation and two such undertakings
were cancelled during the year, the three rooms concerned having been made
to comply with the Regulations. The number of such undertakings remaining in
operation at the end of the year was 38 (41 rooms).
4. Housing Act, 1935.—Overcrowding:—
(a) (i) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end of
the year 2,475
(ii) Number of families dwelling therein 2,475
(iii) Number of persons dwelling therein 11,769
(b) Number of new cases of overcrowding reported during
the year 225
(c) (i) Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during
the year 401
(ii) Number of persons concerned in such cases .. 2,026
(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—
SMALL DWELLINGS ACQUISITION ACTS, 1899-1923.
The total cases where advances have been made by the Borough Council to
31st December, 1936, amount to 532, of which 6 were granted during the year.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops registered in Hackney at the end of
1936 was 406, an increase of 36 on the number registered at the end
of 1935. Of this total, 235 were workshops in which females were
employed.
The factories in the Borough number 862, and are inspected
and regulated by H.M. Inspectors under the Home Office. The
duty of ensuring the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary
conveniences in factories, however, rests upon the Sanitary
Inspectors of the Borough Council.
The chief staple industries are the manufacture of boots, shoes,
cabinets and pianos, but there are also extensive productions of the
following:—
Tailored clothes for males and females, i.e., suits, costumes, dresses,
dressing gowns, blouses, shirts, pyjamas and underclothing generally;
engineering and iron foundry work; cardboard and wood boxes; printing;
brushes and lead pencils ; leather goods; embroidery; paper goods; scientific and
surgical instruments; upholstery and upholstery trimmings and paints and
varnishes; also there are several fur skin dressers and dyers and a number
of laundries.