[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough R.D.C.

  • Peterborough (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Applications were for the following amenities :- Baths 18 Washbasins 18 Hot water systems 20 W.C.’s . 27 Larders 12 5 applications were for tenanted properties and 22 for owner/ occupiers. Work had been completed at 13 properties and was in progress at 4 others. The houses concerned were in the following Parishes Ailsworth 1 Castor 3 Deeping Gate 4 Eye 2 Glinton 2 Hclpston 4 Maxey 2 Newborough 2 Northborough 1 Pcakirk 7 Sutton 1 Council Houses, (a) Building. completed during the year, as follows 4 houses. 2 houses. 6 houses and 4 bungalows. 2 bungalows. 18 dwellings were Deeping Gate Eye Newborough Peakirk At the end of the year, 20 houses at Crowland Road, Eye, were nearing completion. The erection of eight bungalows at Maxey is tp commence early in the New Year. The 1962 building programme was provisionally fixed, as follows 21 flatlets at Eye. 12 bungalows at Glinton. 12 dwellings at Castor. (b) Improvements. The provision of washbasins in the 59 pre-war Council houses at Dye was completed. W.C.'s and washbasins were provided in the pre-war houses at Etton and Pcakirk and preparations made for similar work at the 25 houses at Glinton Road, Hclpston and 8 houses at Borough Pen. Paving slab paths were in the process of being laid to the pre-war houses at Eyo. (c) Maintenance. External painting was carried out at 155 Council houses in the Parishes of Ailsworth, Castor, Eye, Glinton, Hclpston, Marholm, Maxey, Northborough and Peakirk. The work of replacing obsolete shallow sinks with deep ones and bringing up to standard of electrical wiring, was continued and is now practically complete. It was also found necessary to carry out repairs to concrete flat roofs on the post-war estates at Eye and Glinton and to remedy dampness to 9 walls in pre-war houses by internal linings.