[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council.

  • Stirlingshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Stirling County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ II.—FIRST YEAR’S PROGRESS. “ One condition of earning the Housing Subsidy is, that reasonable progress must have been made within one year from the passing of the Housing Act of 1919. It may be interesting, therefore, to take stock as at 19th August, 1920, on the expiry of that year. At that date, tenders had been accepted for 132 houses as follows : — Site. Causewayhead Cambusbarron East Plean Bannockburn Number Amount Average of ^ of per Items not included Houses. Tenders. House. in these figures. 30 £24,000 £800 20 15,954 797 32 27,829 869 50 50,175 1004 Architectural expenses —Clerk of Works salaries—Share of general expenses, and in East Plean Scheme the fitting for house lighting. “ As at 19th August, 1920, 82 of the 132 houses had been com- menced, and the following progress had been made with them: — Number Roofed, Slated and Roughcasted 5 Number Roofed and Slated 6 Number ready for Slating 6 Number ready for Roofs 9 Number with walls at first-floor level 37 Number with walls at damp-course level 2 Number with concrete founds completed 3 Number with founds cut 14 82 “ We have no reason to assume that the above will not be considered satisfactory progress by the Board of Health for the purposes of Subsidy, but it may be useful to submit the record to the Board, and get an assurance from them to that effect. “ III.—COST OF HOUSES. “ While the above figures give the gross amount of the tenders and the average cost per house, it will he kept in view that all the contracts have been on a sliding scale rising with increase of wages or material, and falling if these should be reduced. So far the sliding scale has worked in an upward direction. The D.B.M.S. figures for bricks upon which the tenders in the case of Causeway- head, Cambusbarron, and East Plean were based, were 70s per thousand. The rates paid have varied from 105s to 154s 3d. In October last, when we were paying 154s 3d for hricks for housing, the Hospital Committee were building the Observation Ward at Bannockburn. The price thev paid for bricks was 84s 5d plus 12s 8d for railway carriage. “ In the case of cement, the increase has also been consider- able. The D.B.M.S. figures for these tenders were 70s for Coltness or Gischol, and 90s for Portland cement. We have been unable to obtain any Coltness cement, and only one lot of Gischol, for which we paid 93s 9d, as against the D.B.M.S. figuro of 70s. ’ For