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concept and described minimum acceptable residential standards relating to: area of
sleeping space and volume of air space per person, gender segregation among unmarried

adults in sleeping quarters, sufficient provision of latrines, and adequate provision of space
for food preparation and cooking. Nuisance existed in cases where the construction, state,

situation, dirtyness, verminousness, use, or congestion of premises was such as to be

injurious or dangerous to health or liable to spread infectious disease; it existed, also, on
any premises without reasonable access to a sufficient supply of wholesome water.

On receipt of such a report a council could then declare a building or an area to be a slum

and compel the owner/s to remedy the conditions, or to demolish any premises incapable of
being renovated to satisfactory standards. The Act also gave councils the power to

expropriate the insanitary or overcrowded premises or congested areas, as well as adjoining

or nearby land, if this was necessary to create an area of sufficient size and shape for
redevelopment purposes.

In 1928 (from Donaldson’s WP Directory) some of the families living in “Die Land” were:

Harbour Road: Clairvaux Road:
Wolfsohn, A. L. Grocer van Blerk, G. C. “Clairvaux” Speculator
Orgill, R. Hilton, Mrs. F.
Padua, A. C. Postman Menigo, J.
Eckles, F. H. Fisherman Fernandez, P.
Junior, B. Greengrocer Coldrey, H. P.
Francis, A. Fisherman Bester, Miss A. “Vrede”
Fernandez, T. Fisherman Hansen, N. A.
Farquhar, B. Butcher Radloff, Mrs. A. “Ruhe”
Poggenpoel, D. “Newman’s Cottage” Vercuil, J.
Mills, C. Fisherman
Sasman, T. Fisherman

van Blerk’s Cottages: Moffat, J. I.
van Blerk, Mrs. S. J. Willan, R. .
Gorton, A. C. Clarence, V.