The Buildings Ordinance, No. 18 of 1935, came into operation on the 1st of January, 1936. This Ordinance provides for improvement in the conditions of light and ventilation of those old properties which, under previous ordinances, were not called upon to conform to modern requirements. A higher standard generally is being called for, and building owners themselves are slowly realizing the advantages to be gained from modern constructional methods allied to proper hygienic principles.
In October, 1938, the Housing Commission, appointed in 1935, presented its report to the Government. The principal recommendations were as follows: (a) that a permanent Town Planning and Housing Committee be formed to advise Government on town planning and housing matters, to make surveys, to prepare legislation and to devise machinery necessary to give effect to town planning and housing schemes, (b) that the Buildings Ordinance be amended to permit the erection of experimental types of tenements, and (c) that more open space be provided in or near the congested areas.
There are no building societies in the Colony.
Owing to the influx of refugees from the war areas of China, overcrowding, which is a normal feature of the housing of the poorer classes, increased considerably during the year under review. There was a general increase in rents. Some thousands of the poorest people took to living on the sidewalks of the streets under the verandahs and in shacks erected on vacant pieces of Crown Land.
In order to meet the situation in part and to relieve the street sleeper problem, Government constructed accommodation for five thousand in the urban area and for about twice that number in the New Territories. The huts built in the urban area will provide living space for persons dispossessed from insanitary slum dwellings, pending rebuilding, if it is found possible to carry out slum clearance schemes.
Private building enterprise was particularly active during the year but made little or no impression on the housing shortage.
For the purpose of the sanitary inspection of tenements under the powers conferred by the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, No. 15 of 1935, the Urban District is divided into twenty-eight Health Districts, each of which is in the charge of a Sanitary Inspector. Each Health District contains about 3,000 floors and, in normal times, about 30,000 inhabitants. House-to-house inspection forms part of the duties of the Sanitary Inspectorate and of the Health Officers. Some 47,000 sanitary nuisances were dealt with during the year, and some 203,000 floors were subjected to cleansing with kerosene oil emulsion. Floors in the overcrowded central districts are cleansed four times annually, and those in the outlying districts twice annually.
Occupation Permits Issued and Premises Demolished during 1938.
Occupation Permits Premises Demolished Kowloon Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong European type houses 40 76 38 19 Chinese tenement type houses 1936 88 79 50 27 1937 40 76 38 19 167 77 116 57The table整理 as follows:
1936 1937 Kowloon Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong European type houses (Occupation Permits) 40 76 Chinese tenement type houses (Occupation Permits) 88 79 40 76 Total (Occupation Permits) 167 116 European type houses (Premises Demolished) 38 19 Chinese tenement type houses (Premises Demolished) 50 27 38 19 Total (Premises Demolished) 77 57 becomes Type of Houses Occupation Permits Premises Demolished 1936 1937 1936 1937 European type houses (Kowloon) 40 38 European type houses (Hong Kong) 76 19 Chinese tenement type houses (Kowloon) 88 40 50 38 Chinese tenement type houses (Hong Kong) 79 76 27 19 Total (Kowloon) 88 40 50 38 Total (Hong Kong) 79 76 27 19 **Total Kowloon** **88** **40** **50** **38** **Total Hong Kong** **79** **76** **27** **19** **Grand Total** **167** **116** **77** **57** is rewritten asOccupation Permits Issued and Premises Demolished during 1938.
Type of Houses Kowloon (1936) Hong Kong (1936) Kowloon (1937) Hong Kong (1937) European type houses (Occupation Permits) 40 76 Chinese tenement type houses (Occupation Permits) 88 79 40 76 European type houses (Premises Demolished) 38 19 Chinese tenement type houses (Premises Demolished) 50 27 38 1915
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'The Buildings Ordinance, No. 18 of 1935, came into operation on the 1st of January, 1936. This Ordinance provides for improvement in the conditions of light and ventilation of those old properties which, under previous ordinances, were not called upon to conform to modern requirements. A higher standard generally is being called for, and building owners themselves are slowly realizing the advantages to be gained from modern constructional methods allied to proper hygienic principles
In October, 1938, the Housing Commission, appointed in 1935,, presented its report to the Government. The principal recommendations were as follows: (a) that a permanent Town Planning and Housing Committee be formed to advise Government on town planning and housing matters, to make surveys, to prepare · legislation and to devise machinery necessary to give effect to town planning and housing schemes, (b) that the Buildings Ordinance be amended to permit the erection. of experimental types of tenements, and (c) that more open space be provided in or near the congested areas.
There are no building societies in the Colony.
Towing
to the influx of refugees from the war areas of China, overcrowding, which is a normal feature of the housing of the poorer classes, increased considerably during the year under review. There was a general increase in rents. Some thou- sands of the poorest people took to living on the sidewalks of the streets under the verandahs and in shacks erected on vacant pieces of Crown Land.
In order to meet the situation in part and to relieve the street sleeper problem, Government constructed accommodation for five thousand in the urban area and for about twice that number in the New Territories. The huts built in the urban area will provide living space for persons dispossessed from insanitary slum dwellings, pending rebuilding, if it is found possible to carry out slum clearance schemes.
Private building enterprise was particularly active during the year but made little or no impression on the housing shortage.
For the purpose of the sanitary inspection of tenements under the powers conferred by the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, No. 15 of 1935, the Urban District is divided into twenty-eight Health Districts each of which is in the charge of a Sanitary Inspector. Each Health District contains about 3,000 floors and, in normal times, about 30,000 inhabitants House to house inspection forms part of the duties of the Sanitary Inspectorate and of the Health Officers. Some 47,000 sanitary nuisances were dealt with during the year and some 203,000 floors were subjected to cleansing with kerosene oil emulsion. Floors in the over-crowded central districts are cleansed four times annually and those in the outlying districts twice annually.
Occupation Permits Issued and Premises Demolished during 1938.
European type houses.
Occupation Permits.
Chinese tenement type houses.
1936 Kowloon
88
50
Hong Kong
79
27
167
77
1937 Kowloon
40
38
Hong Kong
76
19
116
57
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