THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 19, sig. 109-1/22

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It is not a self-employed urban unit, but it is subordinated to the building department.It cannot make independent arrangements, especially financial ones, but must manage everything through the responsible building department,Dam Baureferat comes to the important task of eliminating the difficulties caused by the need for housing. The housing shortage is alarmingly noticeable, many apartments are still terribly unsanitary and almost uninhabitable.The speaker now gives an accurate picture of the housing shortage on the basis of statistics.The poor housing is mostly inhabited by Germans. A city development plan does not yet exist, which corresponds to the German character of the city of Jglau The Czechs have blurred the German nature,the construction and regulation plan developed by the Czech archi- tic fox is rejected, the construction planning of the Germans would be from north to south, not like the Czechs from east to west. As regards the forgiveness of works contracts, it is to be said in relation to the Czechs that the Germans were very disadvantaged.In the years l923 to l938, only 3.7 million crowns of foreign works were awarded to construction works in the amount of 26 000.000 K. Of the total construction costs of 6,oo.ooo K of the economic buildings in the hospital, for example, are only 7.o0o K to a German company.The average is about 14% for the Germans.The head of the construction office is also the head of a water works.The embankment of the water works is undervalued,it would not harm if the depreciation were to be carried out higher.The total turnover is l28.Ooo RM.The water weed is a non-profit company and The surplus is to be set on a special account and used only for the expenditure of the waterworks.The water is not drawn from sources, but from ponds The water temperature rises very strongly in the summer.Therefore a harmful effect of water is to fear, it is already researched for new sources. Source water is only one third of the total amount of water,it was proposed to use pond water as useful water and the spring water as drinking water.In this case 32k