[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cleator Moor U.D.C.

  • Cleator Moor (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cleator Moor U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effect that we required houses to be built, but owing to the war no grant of money could be advanced at the present time. This of course renders the Housing and Town Planning Act very difficult to carry into effect. SANITARY INSPECTOR’S REPORT. To the Medical Officer of Health. I hereby lay before you my first Annual Report which only dates from August 24th, the day of my appointment. During the year the following nuisances have been reported : 46 detective gullies, 36 defective cisterns, 10 choked sewers, 4 broken W.C. pots, 3 cases of accumulation of ashes, 5 burst W.C. water pipes, 28 houses with a defective water supply—all these have been remedied, new water pipes having been put in all the 28 houses, 30 fixed windows—4 have been replaced with sash windows, 6 houses with W.C’s. in scullery, 3 houses with no W.C. accommodation, 10 defective main roofs. 53 insanitary 3^ards—2 have been relayed with flags—many of these yards would have been remedied, but for the wet weather, which is unfavourable for such work, but a good many owners have promised to get the yards attended to at the first favourable opportunity. Under the Housing and Town Planning Act I have inspected 698 houses which are entered in the Record Book. Of these Nos. 3t 5) 7> 9> ^3> 17, North Street, have all defective roofs (in wet weather the bedrooms and kitchen are flooded) ; 4 of these houses have the W C. in attic. Nos. 11, 15, and 17 have no W.C. accommodation. No. 13 is a complete wreck and ought to be boarded up. I consider all these houses unfit for human habitation. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Birks Road, are miserable small houses, all have fixed windows in kitchen and no proper ventilation. In my opinion these houses ought to be removed : that would leave Braithwaite Court open to Birks Road. These houses are back to back with the houses mentioned in North Street, and have good stone fronts. In my opinion if every house in Braithwaite Court was taken in with house adjoining in North Street, it would be the best sanitary improvement in the district. No. 16 Birks Road has W.C. in pantry. This could be made a