[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1959
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continued to be warm or mild and dry, only one case of dysentery occurred in the street. This was in a child who was brought from another area to stay with relatives. One case of gastro-enteritis occurred, but no specific pathogen was isolated and the baby made an uneventful recovery. The campaign had other merits, however. Being something in the nature of an experiment it gave valuable experience in the control of dysentery in old and overcrowded tenement properties. But, if nothing else, it gave to the people of this street a feeling that something was being done to combat a disease, which, if not serious, yet caused hospitalisation and loss of schooling in children and loss of earnings in adults. That being so, the time and effort expended on “ Operation Clark Street ” would seem to have been well spent. Housing [General).—In the Langlands Road Scheme 242 houses of the tenement and cottage type were completed. The erection of two 15-storey multi-storey flats will complete this scheme. A preliminary plan has been prepared and it is hoped to commence building operations early in 1960. All the houses in the flats will be of three-apartments and back-to-back in type. The Department of Health, in a memor- andum issued in 1935, instanced this type of house as a major defect in design and it is to be regretted that objections should be overruled and this same design now given official approval. A new feature in these flats are internal bathrooms, with mechanical extraction near ceiling level by 6 inch x 6 inch vent into an 11 inch diameter main ventilating duct, alternate floors being ventilated into separate ducts. This will provide more than three air changes per hour. Another problem is a small grill, approximately 9 inches x l\ inches near the foot of each bathroom door. In each of the flats the bathroom is entered from the hall. Other new housing construction was on a small scale. Work has started on 54 single persons’ flats in front of Moss Heights and 48 and 36 family houses in Berryknowes and Crookston Road, respectively. Twelve new houses were built by private firms for sale and there were the usual conversions of large houses in Pollokshields. By Sub-Division. No. of Size of Houses Ward Address Houses 1 2 3 4 5 6-f 32 350 Albert Drive ... 2 — — — 1 — 1 3 Beech Avenue ... 2 — — — — 2 — 57 Dalziel Drive ... 2 — — — 1 1 — Converted from 116 Maxwell Drive ... 2 — — — 1 1 — large single 257 Nithsdale Road ... 2 — — — 2 — — houses. Total ... 10 5 4 1