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larger usable space between bearing walls, has made it possible to establish schools, run by voluntary organizations, on the ground floors of selected blocks. Ground floor rooms are also allocated to the Medical and Health Department or to voluntary organiza- tions for clinics or welfare centres, the new design also providing greater flexibility in their use for these purposes. The voluntary organizations have done most valuable work in both the estates and the cottage areas and the facilities provided by them now include eighty schools, as well as clinics, case-work centres, nurseries, milk-bars, a loan association and children's libraries.
Details of the resettlement population and of the different types of premises in the cottage areas and in the multi-storey estates at the beginning and end of 1959 were as follows:
A. Population
1st Jan. 1959
31st Dec. 1959
Cottage Areas
(one-storey buildings)...
80,492
80,386
Multi-storey Estates
(a) 2-storey temporary buildings
6,793
6,035
(b) 6- and 7-storey permanent
buildings
186,150
223,921
273,435
310,342
B. Premises of various types on 31st December 1959 (The numbers on 31.12.58 are shown in brackets).
Cottage Areas
Domestic cottages and huts... 14,611 (14,709)
Multi-storey Estates
(Nil)
Self-contained flats
(Nil)
249
(155)
Domestic rooms
(Nil)
40,362 (32,632)
Shops of various kinds
378
(428)
1,635 (1,108)
Restaurants and cafes
12
(16)
187 (175)
Workshops
46
(52)
417 (331)
Factories
26
(52)
217
(121)
Schools, Clinics and Welfare Centres
44 (43)
145
(87)
URBAN BUILDINGS
The volume of private building works in 1959 again showed an increase despite the fact that the number of schemes dealt with by the Building Authority was actually less. This is accounted for
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