[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Draylon Rural.— The Jiet ^-stimate of ]ionsing needs to meet the shortage is 120 :_ {a) Lnsatisfied demand for houses (taking acfount of growlh of poinilation, overcrowding etc.) 30. (b) replace other dwellings which arc unfit for human habitation and cannot be made fit, 43. (c) replace other houses which, although they cannot at })resent be regarded as unfit for huma 1 habitation, fall definitely below a reasonable standard, 47; total 120. The Council resolved to erect 108 houses on 21 sites, comprising about 15 acres of land, in the parish of Cheswardine, Childs Ercall, Hinstock, Hodnet, Moieton Sav, Norton- in-Hales, Stoke-upon-Tern, Sutton-upon-Tern, and Woore. The average number of houses per acre is 8. The cost of the sites, building, fencing, etc., is estimated at 100,843. Fihicss of Houses.—^As the Sanitary Inspector was only demobilised from the Army in ITebniaiy, few houses were inspected under Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, igio. ;The number of houses inspected was 9, all of which were thought to be unfit for human habitation. I In two of the houses the defects were remedied without closing orders, and seven are still under ; consideration.” Ludlou' Urban.—‘ Fihicss of Ho«scs.—Many are far below the standard of healthy : habitations, and the undue prevalence of tuberculosis and high death-rate some of the more 1 obvious results.” . Ludlou' Rural.— There is at present a general shortage throughout the district, due to the . absence of building during the_ last few years. The Council propose to meet this bv building . m a number of parishes, and sites have been acquired and in some cases contracts let for 4 at Bromfield, 4 at Culmin^^on, 2 at Overton, 2 at Middleton. 2 at Bitterlev, 2 at Abdon, and 2 at i Richard s Castle. The Clee HOI and Craven Arms sites, where the demand is most urgent have ■ not been at present decided on.” ^ Market Drayton Urban.— [a] Unsatisfied demand for houses (taking account of growth of population, overcrowding, etc.) 31. ^ f fit 29^ dwellings which are unfit for human habitation and cannot be made • n which, although they cannot at present be regarded as unfit for human habitation, fall defmitely below a reasonable standard, 20 ; total 80. The.Council have i adopted a scheme for the building of 80 houses upon about 12 acres of land in Ale.xandra Road iwenty of these houses are now in course of erection.” Rcivport Urban.— Fifty houses have only one bedroom. The Council have selected two : befng Wty proceedmg with a scheme for tlie erection of houses, the total number proposed FUness of Ponses.—Fifteen are considered unfit for habitation and will be represented lor closure wlien the new houses are erected the others, about fifty in number, are much below ^ e standard of healthy dwellmgs, most of them being back-to-back, and seriouslv lacking in » air space around. * ■ I and proposed to erect 14 at Edgmond and 30 near the village of Lilleshall, \ and MuxtorT^ decided on m the mdustrial part of Lilleshall, that is, at Donnington Wood . b'^'JH^rally by removal into < admits^nf ^ become vacant, or the removal of lodgers. But the bulk of tlie overcrowding , T T three-bedroomed houses are built. It is caused by gradually ■ I^^nningt^on'woc^^ b\ang m houses of two bedrooms, and is e.xceedingly common throughout I should relating to houses are not in existence in the district, they 1 thmk, be adoptcxi before private buildmg is resumed. ^