[Report 1957] / Chief Sanitary Inspector, Greenock Burgh.

Greenock (Scotland). Burgh Council.

Date:: 1957

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Credit: [Report 1957] / Chief Sanitary Inspector, Greenock Burgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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TABLE SHOWING NUMBER AND SIZE OF HOUSES OVERCROWDED AND NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL HOUSES REQUIRED WHEN THE 1944 RECOMMENDED STANDARD IS APPLIED AS A STANDARD OF OVERCROWDING Size of House Total i 2 3 4 5 6+ Fit overcrowded houses 138 2,030 1,792 040 134 4 4,744 Houses required to abate over- crowding — 257 2,030 1,518 722 249 4,782 Deduct houses rendered vacant 129 1,837 1,508 498 105 4,077 Estimate of new houses required .... — — 528 1,020 017 249 2.414 Surplus houses 129 1,580 — — .— — 1.709 Add houses required for:— Unfit houses 450 045 1,009 210 22 6 2,348 Non-ovcrcrowded sub-tenants 1 7 278 237 10 1 539 Sub-tenants in houses £45+ j Requisitioned houses, huts, etc. — — — — — — — Total 457 923 1,240 232 23 0 2.887 Net total required:— Overcrowding 528 1,020 017 249 2,414 Total required:— Unfit houses, etc. 457 923 1,240 232 23 0 2.887 Total 457 923 1,774 1,252 040 255 5,301 Surplus Houses .... 129 1,580 — — — — 1.599 Total Houses required 328 — 1.774 1,252 040 255 4,249 Surplus Houses 007 — — — — 667 Net total after utilising surplus two- apartment houses to rehouse per- sons requiring one-apartment houses 1,774 1,252 640 255 3,921 Surplus Houses — 339 — — — 339

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