Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the housing conditions in the Borough / County Borough of Warrington.

  • Warrington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1920
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health on the housing conditions in the Borough / County Borough of Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/44 (page 2)
    To the Chairman and Members of the Warrington Rural District Council, Gentlemen, I beg to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1919. I have endeavoured to conform to the Memorandum, as to its contents and arrangement, issued by the Ministry of Health. .. • f Two estimates of the population of the District have been furnished by the Registrar-General, viz., for estimating tne Death rate 11,164 and the Birth-rate 11,630. The survey and schemes under the Housing, &c., Act, 1919, was completed and adopted at a Meeting of the Council on the 15th October, 1919, and I have included both in this Report. No action has yet been taken with regard to the closure of any houses because accommodation cannot be found either in the District or adjoining Districts for the persons affected, and there is still great difficulty in getting ordinary defects in dwellings remedied owing to the shortage of labour in some of the Townships, and also, perhaps more especially, to the very heavy expense that owners of property would incur. The only building of houses commenced since the War began has occurred in Peuketh, where six ferro-concrete houses are being erected by private persons. The Report of your Inspector, Mr. Kerfoot, whose valuable assistance I wish to acknowledge, is included in the Report. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, T. A. MURRAY, Medical Officer of Health.