[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.
- West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1937
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SOCIAL CONDITIONS. Greait changes are taking place in West Lancashire, and each year as it passes sees the Jhistrict more and more urbanised, and ai correspond¬ ing change in the social conditons of the population. But modernisation, which in the southern area has brought large tracts of agricultural land uuder tlie hand of the builder, has in other parts, by the iutroduction of improved pumping plant, brought many acres of waste land under cultivation. The exodus froni the large towns continues, and with it building proceeds apace and urban services are provided. Water mains and sewers have been increased extensively in the urban townshi]:>s and most noteworthy is the provision of the sewerage scheme for the area which was administered until 1932 by the late Sefton Eural District Council. This scheme was officially opened in the early part of 1937 and is described later in the Itepoit. Aintree and Netherton adjoin the City of Liverpool, and to the uninitiated it is impossible to define the boundary. The inhabitants are in part employed in the City and in paid in the factories in their ovm area. The more importarit of these factories deal with the manufacture of artificial silk, tiu boxes, wood mouldings, concrete goods, zinc and galvanised iron goods, soap and candles, cooked food, plain and printed wax papers and flour. A notable addition in 1935 was a “ Lootball Pools ” factory with. 1,390' operatives. There are alsO' motor works, laundries,; lithographers' and boxmakers’ factories. Further north is the completely transformed township of Alaghull. A few years ago this was an agricultural parish with a smadl residential area adjoining the I'ailway station. Now it is rairidly being built u]) with modern houses, shops, lighting and communications. The opening of a fine arterial bye-pass, road at the end of 1934 has further augmented development, as building proceeds ,apace along both sides of it. There were 1,724, inhabited houses in Maghull at the end of 1937, as, against 1,224 in 1936, 1,105 in 1935 and 374 in 1926. In addition there were 318 houses which were not occu])ied. The whole of the district is now .adecpiately provided with road and rail trans])ort services. Thornton also is developing lupidly. It adjoins the Urban District of Great Crosby, and in its southern half is now almost entirely residential.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30261636_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
