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Inspection of District.
During the year a further inspection of the Borough was made with
a view to the ascertainment of any houses which could be represented
to the Borough Council as falling within Part I or Part II of the
Housing Act, 1930. Apart from those areas already recorded in the
report for 1934 and those which the London County Council contemplated
dealing with, the following houses or parts of houses were
officially "represented" to the Council during 1935:—
Individual Dwelling-Houses.
2
Parts of Buildings.
1.
Underground Rooms.
7
The following table records the work done in connection with
housing inspection:—
1. Unfit Dwelling-Houses.
Inspection—
(1) (a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for
housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 6265
(b) Number of inspections made 6363
(c) Special Housing Survey Inspections (not included
above) 2894
(2) Number of dwelling-houses (included in (l) above)
which were inspected, and
(a) Recorded under the Housing (Consolidated) Regulations,
1925 1470
(b) Number of inspections made for this purpose 1470
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so
dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation —
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those in (3)
found not to be in all respects reasonably fit for human
habitation 2830
2. Remedy of Defects without Service of Formal Notices.
Number of defective dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence
of informal action by the Local Authority or their
officers (on service of Intimation Notices) 2532