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AMENDMENT OF BUILDING BY-LAWS.
The By-laws Committee have been considering
suggestions as to the amendment of the Building By-laws,
and their views will be placed before the Council.
INHABITED HOUSES.
The number of houses at the middle of the year was
3,024. Of this number 284 were unoccupied. There
were 290 Flats, and 58 of those were unoccupied. This
gives a total of 3,314 houses and flats, of which 2,972
were occupied, and 342 were unoccupied.
The supplemental valuation lists at the end of the
year show that in addition to the above there are 48
houses, and of these 18 are unoccupied. If the 30
occupied houses are added to the number of those
occupied at the middle of the year, there were at the end
of the year, 3,002 occupied houses in the district, and
allowing 5 inhabitants to each house shows that the
population has now reached a little over 15,000.
SEWAGE FARMS.
The effluents have on the whole kept satisfactory.
HOUSE NUMBERING.
Mr. Kramm reports that during the year Vaughan,
Grange and Kingsfield Roads have been numbered, making
280 houses in all. These added to the 887 already
numbered gives a total of 1,157.
Instructions have been given for the following roads
to be numbered:—Heath, Merivale, Pinner, Sheepcote,
St. John's, and Lowlands Roads, and the right-hand side
of Butler and Drury Roads.
Before long one-half of the houses in Harrow will be
numbered, and I hope that in the near future all the
houses will be distinguished in this way. When this is
accomplished, the sanitary records can be kept with greater
accuracy, and will be more valuable for reference.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
There are no houses of this description in the district,
nor has any occasion arisen for the Council to call upon
any owner to. be registered.