[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.
- Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1930
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by private enterprise during the next five years:— (i.) With subsidy under the Act of 1924.—Xo figure can be given because it dejjends upon trade con- ditions and the result of further negotiations. !* (ii.) Under arrangements made under Section 29.—- : Nil as at present ascertained. (iii.) Otherwise.—500. Number of new houses to be erected by the Council im- I mediately in order to ])rovide accommodation in replacing unfit houses to be demolished.—50. 3). Estimated number of new houses to be provided by the'local authority within two years to replace houses to be j demolished under the powers of the Darlington Corpora- j tion Act, 1930.—28. C. Estimated number of houses to be demolished bv the Council during the next two years:— (i.) As individual unfit houses.—33. (ii.) In respect of a sclicme outside the Housing Acts.—27. BACK-TO-BACK HOUSES AND HEALTH. g Comparative Mortality Figures. This Rej)ort has been based on the Census returns of 1921, implified by material from my past Annual Reports, and the II nspections by the Sanitary Staff. e e The po])ulation has increased from 05,842 to 71,790, and [1 3,000 houses have been built, since 1921, but this has not altered :o any extent the conditions in baek-to-back j)ropcrty. The general work of the Sanitary Inspectors reveals that increasing e numbers of houses are becoming sub-let anr4 sub-divided, so that t the conditions of the poorer working classes are on the whole animproved. Further, no appreciable change has taken place in the number or the mode of habitation of our baek-to-back houses during the past ten years, as the shortage of alternative accommodation has been an insurmountable obstacle in taking progressive measures to relieve the overcrowding. ^ In my Annual Reports for 1928 and 1929, the need for ' houses at a rental of 5/- to 71- per week was em]:)hasiscd, and I I ventured to suggest that the immediate provision of 200 houses 1 1 I * [](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29149125_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
