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During 1936 “Die Land” (Figs. 1.4 & 1.5) was inspected by Council officials and on 29
August the MOH, Dr. Shadick Higgins, submitted to the Special Committee a list of 19

buildings to be declared slums. Hearings between the Committee and the affected owners
took place on 21 September, and on 30 September Council approved a list (Fig. 1.6) of six

to be declared slum premises, the remaining thirteen to be declared not slums On 14

January 1937 the City Engineer submitted a comprehensive report to the Slum Clearance
Committee that summarised the situation and also recommended a course of action much

more extensive than remedying the conditions of the six slum properties.

CITY OF CAPE TOWN
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JCC/AG City Engineer’s Department,
S.C. 625 City Hall.
Capetown.
14 January, 1937

The Chairman and Members of the
Slum Clearance Committee.
Gentlemen,
Slum Properties at Kalk Bay

I have to report on certain properties situated above Harbour Road and south of
Clairvaux Road, Kalk Bay, that have been dealt with by your Committee under the Slums
Act.

These properties are situated in an area occupied chiefly by coloured persons
engaged in the fishing industry. This area accommodates some forty buildings including
two houses facing Clairvaux road and a shop and dwelling occupied by Europeans. The
cottages occupied by the fishermen are mostly wood and iron structures while the
remainder, although substantially built, are of some considerable age.

In reporting slum conditions to your Committee the Medical Officer of Health did
not deal generally with the wood and iron cottages and of the nineteen cases submitted as
properties on which slum conditions exist, six were declared slums by the Council at a
th
meeting held on the 29 September last and although thirteen were declared not to be