[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    36/94 (page 36)
    The other housing activities of the district councils have been summarised in the table 36 (a), from which it will be obvious that much work is still necessary in practically all the districts before it can be claimed that the housing conditions are satisfactory. Naturally, to a large extent, the amount of repair work depends on the alternative accommodation available for the tenants unless this is of a purely minor kind. In the comments made by district medical officers of health in their annual reports, from which extracts have been published in this report, it will be seen how much overcrowding still exists and how difficult it is to combat this as it is not possible to construct houses at an economic rent for a large section of the population. Until this problem is solved it is impossible to deal with unhealthy areas and slum dwellings in any drastic fashion. AmblBCOTE.-—“ The old property which I mentioned in my last Annual Report has now been pulled down and demolished. “ There are no special sanitary defects in the district which needs mention in this Report.” Bilston.—The Report contains a Table and Report showing the houses built since 1919, prepared by the Archi¬ tect, and the M.O.H. makes the following comments :— “ The report, although encouraging from some points of view, from the point of view of numbers and the actual final affect of the building for the year is disappointing. “ I pointed out last year that normally we need an annual increase of 127 houses to meet the increase of popu¬ lation and to allow for the demolition of old buildings becoming derelict. These figures were arrived at from statistics taken over a period of 8 years. “ In the period under review there were built 106 new houses but when we take into consideration that 40 houses were closed or demolished our gain for the year is only 57. The increase in population is 319, demanding, at five persons per house, an additional 78 houses from this source alone but when we realise that we have lost 49 additional houses