[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wirral Rural District. cottages primarily for farm labourers, 12 in Willaston and LI in Little Sutton. From time to time Committees of the Council with the officials met and discussed the housing needs of the area with the representatives of the Housing Commissioner. It was agreed that the present needs would be satisfied by the erection of 121 cottages of the artisan type. As a matter of fact the Surveyor reported that during the year plans had been passed for 172 houses and 169 of these were subsidy houses. Thirty-three subsidy houses are being built or are just about completion in Moreton, 15 in Caldy and Grange, 16 in Barnston. 8 in Prenton, 13 in Willaston, 27 in Heswall, 3 in Fastham, 2 in Little Sutton, 4 in Frankby, 1 in Burton, 1 in Noctorum, 9 in Upton, 1 in Irby, 1 in Gayton, 1 in Hooton, and 5 in Thingwall. Sanction was given for the erection of 39 temporary buildings to be used as dwelling houses under agreements. Moreton.—The condition of the township of Moreton calls for more than passing nrention for it has earned unenviable notoriety owing to its bungalow town. Its acreage is 1,202 acres, and the population at the 1911 census was 970 persons, at the 1901 census it was 597, and as long ago as 1871 it was 455. Before and since the war building has been energetically going on and there is a large increase in the number of the inhabitants. The increase is due entirely to immigration of business men from Liverpool who can ol)tain easy access by the Wirral Railway to the city. The description of the village written in 1845 is no longer a true one—‘‘It is situated in a dreary flat close to the shores of the sea with roads excessively bad and a bridge as dangerous to travellers as it is disgraceful to the county. It is in every point of view a poor village.” Neat trim i-esidences of the villa type are now numerous and it is in every respect a prosperous township. But side by side with the development which may be termed its legitimate gi'owth there has been going on for many years (since 1907) the construction of a wooden town on certain lands lying between the railway line and the Wallasey Embankment, which keeps these low-lying lands from being flooded by the tide. The whole area is intersected by stagnant ditches, the waters of which ultimately reach the Birkett. The formation of the