[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield U.D.C.

  • Driffield (Humberside, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Urban District, which has been enlarged very much, to the great benefit of the town according to statistics, but equally good for other districts but not so handy. It is an Isolation Hospital for the whole of the East Riding. The Cottage Hospital for Accidents and Medical Cases. Bacteriological and Chemical work is done by the Clinical Research Association, London, with whom the East Riding County Council have a contract to pay half for each sample or specimen, the Urban and Rural districts of the East Riding districts paying the other half. In all cases of Diphtheria, swabs are sent to this Association as a rule, also samples of blood in cases of Typhoid Fever and Sputa in Phthisis, which I think is a great boon to the East Riding of Yorkshire. HOUSING. General Housing Conditions. There are 1:343 houses with an average of 4.19 to each house. No new houses have been built during the year. The population is probably about equal to pre-war conditions. It was considered that 30 new houses would be necessary. The Urban Council thought that 10 new houses would be sufficient with the re-construction of houses unfit for human habitation and some habitable but not in a proper Sanitary condition; from various reasons such as want of money, material and labour, they have been unable to carry out their project so far. A site for the new houses has been provisionally secured, and I have no doubt the 10 new houses will be built, but owing to the present cost of materials and price of labour, the rents of such houses would be prohibitive for the class of people for whom the houses are intended. Number of Dwelling-houses inspected under and for the purposes of Section 17 of the Act of 1919, 20. Number unfit for human habitation, 6. Number of houses made fit for human habitation without formal representation, 14. Number of houses which after making of Closing Orders were put into a fit state for human habitation, none. I am. Your obedient Servant, G. BURGESS. Driffield, July 17th, 1921.