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Sanitary Inspection of the Borough.
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in new houses erected, by the Borough Council and the London
County Council.
In most of the houses in the Borough the water supply is
inside the house and in only a small proportion is it situated in
the open air. A good many houses are still without a supply of
drinking water direct from the main.
All the houses in the Borough have water closet accommodation,
although there are still a few which have to share the accommodation
with another house.
Unhealthy Areas.
During the last two or three years a systematic survey of the
Borough has been made with the object of scheduling groups
of houses which are unhealthy. There are 632 houses in this
category, grouped in 33 areas. The conditions in the different
areas vary to a considerable extent, but all of them are well below
standard and cannot be reconditioned. Most of these areas are
small ones, 17 of the 33 consisting of fewer than 10 houses each.
Only four of them contain more than 50 houses. In six of them
there are from 20 to 40 houses.
The Council has decided to deal with a number of these unhealthy
areas during the next five years, and in drafting its five
years' programme under the Housing Act, 1930, has made provision
for 524 flats to accommodate persons living in insanitary
areas. This accommodation is in addition to that which is being
provided for housing purposes as distinct from re-housing. The
524 flats will be available for re-housing persons displaced from
some of the unhealthy areas and also from other insanitary
houses, not situated in areas, which require demolition.
I have made representations under Section 1 of the Housing
Act, 1930, in respect of 13 of the above unhealthy areas, and
the Council has decided to deal with them as Clearance Areas.
This will involve the demolition of 147 houses and it is hoped that
considerable progress will be made in this direction during the
current year.