[5 boxes of lantern slides on housing]
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE4/1/8/18
- Dates of Creation:1944
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:5 boxes Photographic material (incl slides etc)
Scope and Content
Boxes are numbered 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. Box 1 - Glasgow - Occupied Houses - 1921, 1931 and 1943 - Percentage Size of Apartments; Glasgow - new housing requirements; Glasgow - Occupied Houses 1931 - Comparison with Liverpool and Manchester - Percentage size of apartments; and layout plan of Parliamentary Road Improvement Scheme - before and after clearance. Box 2 - probability of dying in the next five days; Glasgow - average heights and weights of children 1906, 1936 and 1943; average heights and weights of children 1906, 1924, 1931 and 1936 arranged according to housing conditions; Glasgow - overcrowding - housing requirements 1943; B6 experiment specific deaths; and graphs of hypothetical epidemics. Box 3 - Glasgow - deaths per million of children under 10 years of age in quinquennial periods; Glasgow - measles 1925/1926 seasonal distribution in 4 weekly periods; Glasgow - gastro-enteritis 1944 - housing conditions, age of cases and deaths in fortnightly periods; Glasgow - measles 1925/1926 age incidence of measles in tenement and housing scheme areas. Box 5 - photographs and floor plans of pre-fabricated houses including Portal, Uni-Seco, Tarran and Arcon styles. Box 6 - before and after diagram of the work on the Sub-Committee on Uninhabitable Houses at 14 McAlpine Street and 9 Carrick Street; Glasgow - closing and demolition of uninhabitable houses from up to 1924 and 1925 to 1944; Glasgow - atmospheric pollution 1935-1936 - tons per square mile (map and table); Glasgow - Occupied Houses 1921, 1931 and 1945 percentage size of apartments; and Glasgow - closing and demolition of uninhabitable houses up to 1924. Original boxes not retained.
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Original boxes not retained. Slides in folders according to box number.
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