[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C.
- Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![No definite cases of overcrowding have been reported. (Ill .) Fitness of Houses. (1) (a) The general standard of housing in this parish is good. A thorough inspection was com- menced during the year, but it was found that about half of the estimated working-class dwellings were of a very good type, and it was therefore decided to inspect those of a poorer type only, in order to economise the time of the inspector for parishes which had a larger number of unfit houses. (b) Of G2 houses inspected 2 were found unfit, and of these 1 has been put in repair and 1 is still in abeyance. (2) of notices have been served under Section 28 of the Housing Act of 1919. (3) Some difficulty has been experienced in getting an old farm-house rendered fit for human habita- tion, but the house is now practically being recon- structed. (4) This parish has a water-supply partly from the Totland Water Company and partly from the Freshwater and Yarmouth Water Company, and over 90 per cent, of the houses are supplied Iron) one or other of these sources. The district is sewered, except in so far as the outlying houses are concerned, these being supplied with cess-pits or pail closets. Scavenging is carried out. WHIPPINGHA3!. (I.) General Housing Conditions in the District. (]) The number of separate occupiers in the Parish of Whippingham at the 1901 census was 412, and at the 1911 census 157.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29499057_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
