February 2022

20th century Housing History of the Humberside region 18.

(s.p.b.s) The political divide over the issue of house building from the public purse was exampled when the central government’s Local Government Board refused to accept the point made by Skirlaugh Rural District Council that ‘Scarcity will be appreciably relieved by the erection of cottages by private enterprise’. This prompted Skirlaugh R.D.C. to carry-out a […]

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20th century Housing History for the Humberside Region 17.

Rural district councils were slower to adopt building by-laws than their urban counterparts. However, most did employ full-time medical officers of health and inspectors of nuisance so that some comments on very poor housing might reach the ears of the elected through their annual or monthly reports. Furthermore, there were 24 sanitary inspectors employed in

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