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General Repairs.
Windows repaired or renewed 113
Floors repaired or renewed 84
Doors repaired or renewed 2l
Handrails and staircases provided or repaired 6
Stoves and coppers repaired or renewed 51
internal walls and ceilings repaired 153
Rooms cleansed 308
Rooms ventilated 2
Chimney stacks and pots repaired or renewed 8
External painting 8
Hot Water systems repaired 7
Food cupboards provided 1
Lighting improved 1
Offensive accumulations removed 6
Disused well enclosed 1
Cellulose Spraying discontinued 3
Rent Book Entries put in order 1
Food promises cleansed 7
Gas and Electric services repaired 3
Dangerous walls re-built 2
Dangerous structures repaired 7
Dangerous outbuildings demolished 1
Walls underpinned 1
Miscellaneous 48
HOUSING.
Number of new houses erected during the year 207
(i) By the Local Authority ("ARCON" Mark V
temporary bungalows) 90
(ii) By other Local Authorities Nil
(iii) By other bodies or persona 111
(iv) Rebuilt following destruction by
enemy action 6
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Number of conversions into flats by other bodies
or persons 63
1. Inspection of dwelling houses during the year
(excluding Council Houses)
(1) (a) Total number of dwelling houses
inspected for housing defects
(under Public Health or Housing
Acts). 254
(b) Number of inspections made for
the purpose 254
(2) (a) Number of dwelling houses (included
under sub-heading (l) above) which
were inspected and recorded under
the Housing Consolidated
Regulations, 1925 and 1932. 23
(b) Number of inspections made for the
purpose 23
(3) Number of dwelling houses found to be in
a state so dangerous or injurious to
health as to be unfit for human
habitation Nil
(4) Number of dwelling houses (exclusive of
those referred to under the preceding
sub-heading) found not to be in all
respects reasonably fit 199
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