[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1935
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Credit: [Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Appendices 13, 14, 15 & 16. end there remained 22 of the Devonshire Avenue estate houses to be completed. The total number of houses demolished during the year was 132, and the number of houses upon which Demolition Orders were made was 27. The position of the Slum Clearance Programme on the 31st December, 1935, was that 201 houses had been demolished and 897 persons re-housed from these houses, while other houses upon which action was not complete numbered 11. Formal notices under Section 17 of the Housing Act, 1930, were served in respect of 53 houses for structural repair. The number of houses repaired under this provision was 72 and included houses subject to notice in 1934. The Corporation had to carry out the work in default in the case of three houses only. Other houses repaired as the result of informal notice numbered 172. Housing Act, 1935—-Overcrowding Census. A Census required by the Ministry of Health under Section 1 of the above Act was begun at the end of November. It was required by the Act that a census of all working class houses in the Borough be taken with a view to ascertaining what dwelling houses were overcrowded, and this involved a census of 13,992 houses, i.e., a census of all houses in the Borough with a rateable value of £20 or under. A census paper was prepared and sent by post to the 13,992 houses mentioned above. When all these were finally received, the work of analysis was begun and at the end of the year the analysis was still proceeding. PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASES. There has been a considerable increase in the number of infectious diseases notified during the period under review, there having been 431 notifications as against 274 in 1934, this increase being mainly due to there having been over 100 more cases of scarlet fever in 1935 than in the previous year. It is to be noted that, during the year, the type of scarlet fever has been much more severe. There is, however, nothing to be alarmed about in these facts, as scarlet fever -tends to show an increase in both number of cases and severity of type about every five years, and this is borne out by the fact that there were 195 cases of scarlet fever in 1930 as against 110 cases in 1929 and 216 cases in 1925 as against 88 cases in 1924.