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DETAILS OF SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS ETC. EFFECTED
DURING THE YEAR (Cont.)
General.
Windows repaired or renewed 153
Doors repaired or renewed 19
Floors repaired or renewed 28
Stoves and coppers repaired or renewed 21
Internal walls and ceilings repaired 51
Rooms ventilated 7
Staircases repaired or provided with handrails 3
Chimney stacks and pots repaired or renewed 25
Statutory entries made in rent books 8
Overcrowding abated 4
Accumulations removed or covered 8
Nuisances from animals abated 1
Shops Act infringements corrected 4
Heating Appliances (Fireguards)Act
infringements corrected 1
Food stores constructed or ventilated 2
Dangerous walls removed or made safe 3
External painting 3
Ditch cleansed 1
Open areas provided 4
Dangerous fences repaired 2
Nuisance from fumes abated 1
Rooms cleansed and redecorated 30
Miscellaneous 35
NOTES: (i) Further details will be found under
headings "Food Premises", "Factories", etc.
(ii) No works carried out as a result of action
under the Rent Act are included above.
IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.
The Council continued to operate this scheme in cases
(a) where new housing accommodation would be provided by
the conversion of an existing building, (b) where additional
accommodation was to be provided by adding rooms, and (c)
where it was intended to improve the sanitary arrangements
and/or the system of water heating.
Seventeen applications for grants were received
during the year. Fifteen were recommended by the Council
but one owner did not take up the grant. Two applications
were rejected.

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