[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Housing. At tlie present time interest is more centred in this siil)ject than in any otlier of the j)nl)lic, health activities. It is a subject to which reference is constantly being made by politicians, nnmerons associations and societies, and of course by the people themselves. The cjiiestion which naturally arises in this connection is a, pertinejit one, and refers to the proof of the generally accepted statement that tlie conntiy as a whole is woefully deficient of housing accommodation. ])onbtless certain distidcts can show a high proportion of bad overcrowd- ing, Init it is certainly true that other districbs are mindi more favonrably circnmslanced. In the 1921 Census the statistics relating to this county showed that in 29,059 dwellings with 215,702 lotal rooms, there were housed 172,720 persons, or 4.4 l)er house. Of the total number of houses, 5,029 had one, two or three rooms, 19,085 had four or five looms, 11,126 had six, seven or eight rooms, and 2,809 had nine or more rooms. Theie were 241 families (consisting of 448 jiersons) living in houses containing only one room; 1,864 families (consisting of 4,792 persons) living in houses containing two rooms, and 2,282 families (consisting of 11,292 persons) living in houses containing three rooms. In the early part of 1920 the then Ifonsing Com- missioner tor this region received from each ])isiri(4 Council in the Hiding an estimate of their housing needs for thi'ee years as follows. To the table 1 have added the number of new houses bnilt A'ear by year since 1920, as given by the District Medical Officers in their Animal Co * c> Deports : — District. Pi St i in a ted neeils for :i years. 11)20 11121 1022 Ilon.ses I 1022 1024 Piilt. 1025 Total Iteverley M.r>. .. ... 241) 12 ss 4 } f > •» • ► :!0 142 Pridlington M.P> ... 107 o 27 27 72 00 12(; 277 I led on M.P ... 12 7 11 4 • ) ) 4 s .27 ('ottinslmm T’.D ... 01 S 41 IS O*' O*) * > * 122 Driffield TJ.D. .. ... 20 — — 1) s 0 2(; Filey U.D ... 12(; — IS •) imJ 7 4 11 42 llessle U.D ... 240 4 07 24 2.S 20 SI 210 Hornsea U.D. .. .... SO 47 50 25 15 20 200 202