| Description | Minute volume indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. These minutes are in the volume entitled 'Finance Sub Committee'. The minutes include more detailed accounts and statements of estimated and actual income and expenditure than those contained in the minutes of the main committee (see BCC/1/BL/1/1). The later minutes also include information relating to the development of new suburban housing estates; the scale of the housing problem during the First World War, and attempts by the committee to tackle it; schedules of properties in the central areas to be demolished; tables sampling population, available housing and death rate statistics for central slum districts in relation to Birmingham's suburbs; and the impact of the housing shortage on public health (i.e. tuberculosis). The minutes of 5 June 1917 include a report entitled 'The Housing Problem', containing facts and figures to be considered by the committee (see minute 111 in BCC/1/BL/5/1/1). The minutes of 31 January 1918 also include detailed reports and information concerning the housing of munitions workers during the First World War (see minutes 206 - 212 in BCC/1/BL/5/1/1). The minutes of 19 November 1918 include a copy of a circular letter sent by the Local Government Board dated 14 November 1918 regarding the pressing need to re-house following the end of the First World War and the demobilisation of military personnel (see minutes 333 - 334 in BCC/1/BL/5/1/1). |