Five million families in Britain living in houses without baths – archive, 29 November 1960

29 November 1960: Despite the fact that most of these houses are also without hot-water supply and inside lavatory there is low take up for government grant scheme

Mr Frank Allaun, the member for Salford East, said in the Commons yesterday that five million families in Britain were now living in houses without baths. In Manchester a quarter of a million men, women and children were living in houses without baths. In his constituency five out of ten houses had no bath and no inside toilet. In Burnley, Wigan, Rochdale, and St Helens the proportion was one in three. Many other provincial cities were in a similar state, and Glasgow was far worse. Owner-occupiers were taking advantage of the Government scheme for installing bath and inside toilet in approved houses, but it was being largely ignored by private landlords.

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