[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Dartford R.D.C.
- Dartford (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Dartford R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Au iucreasiiig number of evictions took place during the year, a high per- centage being from tied cottages. Where possible the Council endeavoured to meet the difliculties of the families concerned with emergency accommotdation or in some instances, with permanent rehousing. Nine families were I'ehoused from property certified as unfit for human habitation. In addition to the Couneirs building programme, 16 Army huts at Valley Place, Wilmington, were converted for housing purjioses. It is the Council’s policy to maintain movement of families from this site to permanent houses. Twenty-eight houses were held under Requisition at the end of the year, affording 56 units of accommodation. During the year, endeavours were made tO' carry out welfare visiting amongst that small proportion of the Council’s tenants who are families”. Time alone will show whether the improvement effected in the homes is of a lasting nature. The following is an example of the problems so frequently faced by the Housing Selection Committee:— A husband, wife and nine children were awaiting eviction from their home, the order for ])ossession being granted as the father was no longer employed by the owners of the pro]mrty. The eldest child was 18 years old and the yoiuigest 1 year. No suitable emergency accommodation existed. The solution to this i)rolffem was found in the conversion of a pair of partially built semi-detached 3 bedroomed houses, of no'U-traditional design, into a 6 bed- roomed house and an aged person’s unit, consisting of a living room, bedroom kitchen, bathroom, etc., each family with an entirely separate home. The owners postponed the actual eviction of this family until ccnipletion of their new home.” HEALTH EDUCATION. In March arrangements were made with the Central Council for Health Educa- tion foT‘ a lecture to food Imndlers at Swanley .Junction, and those engaged in the trade were ])ersonally invited to attend. The audience who turned up numbered a score, but of these only 4 were s])ontaneous. In .Tune, Messrs. Vickers Armstrong Ltd., of Wilmington, kindly agreed to allow their canteen staff to attend, during working hours, a series of three lectures for food handlers. The lectures were again provided by the Central Council for Health Education, the cost being borne by this Council. The number attending each lecture was 25. At 81tone in May, the Child Welfare Film “ Your Children and You,” with a supporting i>rogramme was shown bv arrangement with the Central Office of In- formation. The number who attended was about a score. The Editor of the Hartford Rural District Bulletin accepted an article on “ Cleanliness in the communal kitchen.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29150437_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
