Chronic sickness in the housing stock.

Abstract

housing conditions may be undertaken, although the echoes of pre-war deprivation in housing standards will have positively influenced the disastrous situation that faced the resources of the country at a time when extreme austerity pervaded all aspects of life. Years of sudden destruction and gradual deterioration due to lack of maintenance had produced in their wake a housing situation which, in terms of total dilapidation, is likely only to have been exceeded in those areas unfortunate enough to have been used as actual ground battlefields. As a stop-gap venture funds from Central Govetnment were made available to carry out emergency war damage repairs which varied in quality and extent and in many cases could only be described as temporary in nature serving to put off the evil day of reckoning. With the re-introduction of slum clearance in about