[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Ulverston U.D.C.
- Ulverston (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1919
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Ulverston U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
6/26 page 4
![RIVERS AND STREAMS.—With the exception of the Town Beck and Levy Beck there are no streams in the Urban District, and these are not liable to any serious pollution.. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.—The Sewerage of the town is on the combined system and speaking generally may be characterised as satisfactory, if we except the liability to flooding in the low lying parts of the town]. This, it is hoped, will be obviated when the scheme for the re-modelling of the outfall is carried out, and plans for the work have, already, been prepared. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION. —There are 2,271 W.C’s in your distict, 141 privy middens, 10 waste water closets and 7 pail closets. HOUSING.—The Housing problem is one of the greatest responsibilities that has ever been placed upon the shoulders of any Local Authority; more especially is this the case in an ancient town like Ulverston where there is a shortage of dwellings of the working class type and where those that do exist, in some cases fall definitely below? a reasonable standard. So far back as the year 1882 an Inspector of the Local Govern¬ ment Board made this remark in his report: — “ House accom¬ modation is on the whole satisfactory. From this statement, however, must be excepted certain houses situated in the few back courts of the town, and in Rattan Row7, such houses being from their structural condition and deficiences unfit for habita¬ tion ” If this was applicable 38 years ago it does not require much imagination to conceive what their condition must he now. I may be pardoned if I take leave to doubt whether many of us fully realise the extent of the discomfort which some of the inhabitants have to endure by being compelled to spend the greater part of their lives in dwellings, which I am convinced, none of us, would care to occupy for a single week. I am quite willing to admit that the difficulties](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30200738_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
