[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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    woiker is quite uiial)]c io pay the rent of houses ])uilt undt'r pi('seii1 duy (losis. There is a demand for a colia^e wiiieli c.aTi he lei at a rental not exceeding five shillings j)er week. ScuL( OATES. The house shortage is not so acute in tliis area as it was two or three years ago, but there is still an absence of new dwellings within comfortable leacdi—from tlie j)()iiit of view of rent—of a‘‘ working man.” New houses completed in the area in 192'5 number 170, and of these 99 were subsidj'' houses of villa or semi-villa type. There is daily increasing evidence that tile supply of these equals the demand, and w^hen it is found that tliey no longer find a ready market it may be possible for Ivocal Authorities— and builders— 1o use this subsidy money for assistance in erecting workmen’s houses. SiiEunxTRX. Three houses have been erected during tlie year by private enterprise, a number grossly inadeipiate for the needs of the district. Overcrowding and consequent ill-health is common, and even apart from overcrowding there is a number of houses lielow the reasonable standard for health, which would be condemned as soon as better accommodation (‘ould be jirovided. Skirlaugii. Fifty-five new houses have been built in five years. Seventeen of these have received the subsidy. No housing’ scheme has been adopted, but the Foor laiw Institution has been converted into twelve workmen’s cottages. Although in the main the various Housing Acts are administered by tlie District Councils, the County Coumtil may provide dwellings in connection with small holdings. The Education, Standing Joint and High- v;ays and tlridges Committees may also provide houses for their respective employees. During the years 1921-25 inclusive the number of houses built in this wav was : — 4. (a) by the Education Committee 17 (b) by the Standing Joint Committee 10 C‘) by the Small Holdings & Allotments Committee 38 (d) by the Highways Bridges Committee 1