ELECTRIC INSTALLATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19893, 15 June 1928, Page 2

ELECTRIC INSTALLATIONS

Since the armistice something l&e 1.100.000 new houses have been built in England and Wales, and ot this largo total no fewer than 269,000 were completed in the year ended September, 1927. In one month alone no fewer than 52,261 houses, practically equivalent to the whole yearly output of small houses in the pre-war period, were finished. From these figures it is obvious that the building of houses is proceeding at a phenomenal rate, but it is not so obvious that anything like a proportionate number of dwellings is being wired for a complete—or, ior that matter, for any—-electrical service. Domestic electrification is certainly progressing, but not m a way commensurate with idie enormous possibilities which this large number of now houses presents. As the installation contractor represents only the last link in a long chain of events necessary to the provision of electrical service, one must be chary of apportioning the blame for lack of enterprise. It is obvious, however, that the display of a little more energy and enthusiasm by all concerned would ensure that a very large, proportion of these houses received that finishing touch which would entitle them to be called 1 homes” in the real sense of the word. In any event, it should not be forgotten that an average annual building of something like 300.000 houses represents an expenditure of at least £2,000,000 on electrical installations alone. ,