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102.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Act, 1920, Rent and Mortgage
Interest Restrictions Act, 1923.
Twenty one applications for certificates that the
houses occupied were not in all respects reasonably fit
for human habitation or were otherwise not in a reasonable
state of repair were made during 1928.
Certificates were granted in four cases and of the
remaining seventeen, three did not come within the
terms of the Rent Restriction Act, while in fourteen
cases the repairs were carried out at once by the owners
so that the issue of certificates was unnecessary.
Housing Conditions.
Year ending 31st December, 1928.
Number of new houses erected during" the year:—
(a) Total 33
(b) With State assistance under Housing Acts:—
(i) By the Local Authority —
(ii) By other bodies or persons —
Number of new houses in course of erection 41
1. Unfit dwelling-houses:—
(a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for
Housing defects (under Public Health and
Housing Acts) 3,587
(b) Number of dwelling-houses which were
spected and recorded under the Housing
(Consolidated) Regulations, 1925 277
(c) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a
state so dangerous or injurious to health as
to be unfit for human habitation 2
(d) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those
referred to under the preceding sub-heading)
found not to be in all respects reasonably fit
for human habitation 2,172
2. Remedy of defects without service of formal notices:—
(a) Number of defective dwelling-houses rendered
fit in consequence of informal action by the
local authority or their officers 1,573