[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As well as 1*21 houses unfit for human habitation, 1,517 houses in Cambridge were found to be “ not in all respects reasonably fit for habitation.” Structural defects remedied after informal notice numbered 1,833 and after formal notice 49. In the rural area 134 demolition orders were made and 100 houses were actually demolished, including 5 in the Newmarket Eural District which were demolished by owners in anticipation of the making of orders by the Local Authority. Two hundred a]id thirty-six houses were found to be unfit for human habitation and 430' “not in all respects reasonably fit for habitation.” Three hundred and twenty-five structural defects ^A•ere remedied after informal notice and 24 after formal notice (10 by Local Authority in default of owner). Dr. Alorgan states that in South Cambridgeshire the whole of the five year programme of slum clearance under the Housing Act of 1930' is practicall}- com])lcte and the same would appear to be the case in Chesterton, but in the Newmarket Rural District 11 Clearance Orders were made and confirmed by the IMinistry of Health in respect of a total of 43 houses, while in addition representations were made respecting 24 individual unfit houses. Further representations in respect of both clearance areas and individual houses were made early in 1937. An important new development in connection with housing was embodied in the overcrowding provisions of the- Housing Act of 1935. For the first time definite legal standards of overcrowding were set up, both as to the number of rooms for a given number of persons of varying ages and sexes and as to the amount of floor space. Local Autliorities were required to undertake surveys of all houses likely to be overcrowded and to formulate proposals to ■deal with overcrowded conditions when found. Definite