[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland County Council
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    41/62 (page 41)
    SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA (A) HOUSING. Housing Rural (Workers) Acts, 1926—1938. The position at the 31st March, 1941, is substantially the same as that reported for the year ended 31st March, 1949 During the year under review work has been completed in respect of eight dwellings, increasing the total number ol houses renovated or improved under the Act, to 1,001, and the grants paid by the Council from ^^69,649 to £78,688. As foreshadowed in the previous report the war has not only retarded but \'irtuall\^ suspended the provision of better housing accommodation under these Acts. (B) WATER AND SEWERAGE. During the year 1940 little change has taken place in the statistics applicable to this subject. In the case of the undermentioned schemes the Minister of Health informed the respective Local Authorities that he was unable to regard such schemes as being ol sufficient urgency to justify their being proceeded with in the present emergency. :— Lnnerdale R.D. ..Sewerage and sewage disposal—-Parish of St. Bees (S), 05. Milium R.D. ..Sewerage and sewage disposal—Village of Ravenglass (S), 188 ; Villages of Drigg and Holmrook (S), 187 ; \'illage of Eskdale Green (S), 189 ; The Green (S), 270 ; Bootle (S), 271 ; Seascale (S), 260. \\'igtijn R.D. ..Sewerage and sewage disposal—■ ViP lages of Caldbeck and Hesket- new-Market (S), 207 ; and Kirk- bampton and Little Bamptun (S), 209. The f(jllowing schemes were commenced during the year under rexiew ;— Wigtun R.D. . .Sewerage and sewage disposal—Village of Torpenhow (S), 203.