§ Captain MORRISON-BELLasked the President of the Local Government Board if he could state the number of houses and tenements now unoccupied in each of the Metropolitan boroughs and in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Portsmouth, Sheffield, and Glasgow?
§ Mr. BURNSThe following table gives the particulars I have obtained on this 1065W subject. In some cases the figures are approximate only, and usually houses and tenements in respect of which the payment of rates is compounded for are not included, as information with regard to them was not available:—
Name of Borough. Number of unoccupied houses and tenements. Battersea … … … 2,064 Bermondsey … … … 426 Bethnal Green … … … 1,054 Camberwell. … … … 3,911 Chelsea … … … 652 Deptford … … … 1,090 Pinsbury … … … 1,650 Fulham … … … 1,047 Greenwich … … … 1,212 Hackney … … … 2,017 Hammersmith … … … 1,213 Hampstead … … … 956 Holborn … … … 789 Islington … … … 2,554 Kensington … … … 1,989 Lambeth … … … 3,500 Lewisham … … … 3,732 Paddington … … … 2,000 Poplar … … … 1,321 St. Marylebone … … … 1,324 St. Pancras … … … 1,157 Shoreditch … … … 1,296 Stepney … … … 2,684 Stoke Newington … … … 449 Westminster … … … 2,175 Woolwich … … … 1,276 Birmingham … … … 8,461 Bristol … … … 4,850 Leeds … … … 6,875 Liverpool … … … 6,900 Manchester … … … 9,928 Portsmouth … … … 1,652 Sheffield … … … 4,907 Glasgow … … … 17,000 Note.—In the cases of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark and Wandsworth no information is available.