GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1936, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH SLUM CLEARANCE. /British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 10. Special interest attaches to figures compiled by the Ministry for Health on the progress of slum clearance schemes and the campaign against overcrowding. The estimated total number of houses to be dealt with under the five-vear slum clearance scheme is about 300,000. ■Clearance orders and compulsory purchase orders submitted by local authorities to the Ministry for Health up to the end of September affected 149.291 houses and 643,741 persons living in them. Steady progress with rehousing those affected by the clearances is being made. At the end of August there were 57,302 houses under •construction. The. total number of houses, including those, in “ju rehousing proposals, approved by the Ministry for Health, is 172,520. The number of houses already completed is about 110,000. As part of the campaign against overcrowding, an investigation into the conditions in 9,000,000 houses out of the total of between 11,000,000 and 12,000,000 houses in the country is proceeding. It has been found that about 3.8 per cent, of the houses investigated come within the official description of overcrowded. ARTIFICIAL WOOL. BERLIN October 2. ’’Borsen Zeitung” announced that an artificial wool factory is being erected at Siegburg. It will probably commence production in June,