[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1938
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of dwellinghouses in which defects were remedied after service of formal notices : — (i) by owners . 7 (ii) by Local Authority in default of owners. 7 (c) Proceedings under sections 11 and 13 of the Housing Act, 1936— Number of dwellinghouses in respect of which Demolition Orders were made ... ... ... 0 Number of dwellinghouses demolished in pursuance of Demolition Orders ... ... ... ... 12 No proceedings were taken under section 12 of the Housing Act, 1936. Housing Act, 1936, Part IV. Overcrowding. Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end of the year ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 Number of families dwelling therein ... ... 24 Number of persons dwelling therein ... ... 159 Number of new cases of overcrowding reported during the year ... ... ... ... ... 31 Number of cases of overcrowding relieved during the year ... ... ... ... ... ... 83 Number of persons concerned in such cases. 712 No cases have been recorded of dwellinghouses having again become overcrowded after the Council have taken steps for abatement. At the end of the year the 52 houses erected on the Churchbalk estate for the rehousing of overcrowded families had been let. These comprise 30 five-bedroom type houses, each with a permitted number of 13, and 22 four-bedroom type houses, each with a permitted number of 11^. 47 of them became occupied by families who were statutorily overcrowded; 31 of these families had been discovered by the Overcrowding Survey of 1935-6, and 16 had become overcrowded since the survey. The remaining 5 houses were let to families, who, although not overcrowded according to the standard set down by the Housing Act, 1936, had inadequate bedroom accommodation for proper segregation of the sexes. It is the policy of the Council to give special consideration to such cases, one of which is cited by way of illustration :