[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Washington U.D.C.

  • Washington (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Washington U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under this heading have been chiefly confined to rendering bad properties weatherproof and the carrying out of general repairs to structures. 48 houses were inspected and recorded under the Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910. or the Housing Consoli¬ dated Regulations, 1925. Closing Orders were made by the Council with respect to the following properties :—No. 40, Spout Lane, Washington ; No. 4, The Green, Washington ; No. 3, The Green, Washington ; No. 45, Spout Lane, Washington ; No. 114, Specula¬ tion Place, Washington ; No. 25, Village Lane, Washington ; and Nos. 22 and 22a, Spout Lane, Washington. In each case the Closing Orders duly became operative, but in only 3 cases were the properties vacated, the other 5 tenants being unable to find other accommodation. In one instance proceedings were instituted against an owner, under the Housing Acts, for having permitted a house to be occupied in respect of which a Closing Order was in force. Daring the year 182 houses Avere erected and occupied, of which 105 were erected by the Council. In consequence of the large number of houses erected many serious cases of overcrowding were relieved, but the following figures shoAv the great demand for houses which still exists in the district. A total of 1,120 applications were received for Council houses up to the 31st December, 1925, and during the year 78 applicants were allocated houses, leaAdng 1,042 outstanding applications. Out of the total number of applications 422 were from persons who were married and had no house, and were consequently living as sub¬ tenants or living apart with their respective parents. HOUSE REFUSE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL. The work of removing house refuse from the Springwell, Usworth Village, and Washington Colliery areas was carried out by contractors during the year under review, comprising 958 houses, etc. The work in the remainder of the Urban District was carried out by direct labour—8 horses and carts, 9 men and a foreman being employed by the Council, and they deal with refuse from 2,716 houses, etc. The work was efficiently carried out in those parts of the district where your own horses and carts are employed, and very feAv complaints had to be made with respect to the work of the