[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which I am tempted to refer once again, on account of the special interest attaching to the housing problem in popular estimation at the present time. We are told that— “ The total number of separate Tenements in the Administrative Countyt together with the City and County Borough of Nottingham, which had been 96,450 in 1891, rose to 113,144 in 1901, the increase being equal to 17*3 per cent. Of this total, the Tenements containing five or more rooms increased from 62,642 to 77,122, equal to 23‘1 per cent. ; while those with fewer than five rooms increased from 33,808 to 36,022, or 6-5 per cent. Stated in another way, the Tenements with five or more rooms were equal to 64'9 per cent, of the Total Tenements in 1891, and increased to 68'2 per cent, at the recent Census, while the percentage of the Tenements with fewer than five rooms declined from 351 to 31’8.” At the time of the Census of 1901 the total number of tenements in the City of Nottingham was 53,389, and of these 18,034 contained less than 5 rooms each, these last being made up as follows :— (a) 1-room tenements, 481; (b) 2-room tenements, 1,795; (c) 3-room tenements, 6,826; (cl) 4-room tenements, 8,932. These facts, with others of similar import recorded in earlier returns, clearly indicate a growing improvement in the conditions under which the poor are housed, and, while they are certainly not sufficient in themselves to justify us in resting content with the present order or rate of progress, they still shew that, even without special effort or that amendment of statutory powers for which there is now so universal a demand, there is and has been for some time past a continuous movement in the right direction resulting mainly from the routine adminstration of existing Public Health Statutes. Marriages.—Since the unification of the city area for all purposes of local government in the spring of 1899, it has been possible to obtain an exact record of all marriages taking place within the city.