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GENERAL.
At the end of 1935 enumerators were engaged
on the preliminary survey required by Part I of
the Housing Act, 1935. The information obtained
was carefuly recorded and report sheets
were collated indicating "possible" and "definite"
cases of overcrowding according to the standards
laid down.
The additional information required was considered
to be of such a nature as to need experienced
knowledge of housing matters and technical training.
The rapid extension of the Borough also
called for additional assistance in the Department,
and two additional Inspectors were appointed in
January of this year with a view to their completing
the information necessary to deal with overcrowding,
and later to take over a district of the Borough
for ordinary Sanitary Inspector's work. The
survey was completed in May and showed a percentage
of '77 of the population to be overcrowded,
and gave information of families who would become
overcrowded before the end of the year and
during succeeding years. The tabulated results
were circulated to all Members of the Council
(Form C).
The house-to-house visits in connection with
the Overcrowding Survey gave your Officers an
excellent opportunity of acquainting themselves
very fully with the housing conditions generally
throughout the Borough, and the systematic inspection
of houses to be dealt with under the repair
sections of the Acts has since been directed to the
areas found to be most urgently requiring attention.
It is gratifying to be able to report that the
whole of the Council's slum clearance schemes have
been dealt with and completed. A brief summary
of these areas and of individual houses demolished
and the numbers of persons re-housed is shown on
pages 53.54 and 55.