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Work has also been started in very many other cases, and is in
various stages of progress in Marsh, Bishop's, Prince's, Vauxhall,
Stockwell, Brixton, Heme Hill, Tulse Hill, and Norwood Wards,
whilst, in addition, many provisional (informal) schedules have been
served during the year under report in connection with houses in the
same Wards, but the work has not yet been commenced. In all
these cases, further particulars will be given in future reports, when
the work has been completed, or practically completed, to the
satisfaction of the Housing Inspectors. In a comparatively few
of the cases, in which no work has yet been started, legal schedules
or notices will be required to be served in the usual way by the
Council.
Special Areas.
Monkton Street Area. Owing to the provision of other accommodation
it has now been found possible to close all the Board of
Guardians' houses, upon which closing orders were, and have been
for some considerable time, outstanding.
General Considerations.
The new Housing Act, 1925, was passed on April 9th, 1925, and
came into force on July 1st, 1925.
The details of work carried out by the Housing Inspectors,
since their appointments in 1920, and up to and including
December 31st, 1927, are as follows:—
1. Inspections made 3,775
2. Works completed or houses closed—
(a) under provisional schedules 3,268
(b) under legal schedules or notices 129
3,397
3. Works not yet completed or not yet commenced—
(a) under provisional schedules 307
(b) under legal schedules or notices 71
378
Need for Re-inspections of Houses Previously Dealt With
under the housing act (repairing clauses).
The two Housing Inspectors have been at work since June, 1920,
and this period of 7 years has been sufficient to satisfy them of the
need for re-inspections of houses previously dealt with a few years
ago under the Housing Acts (Repairing Clauses). The works carried