A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46
APPENDIX I
WARTIME SOCIAL SURVEY
Heating of Dwellings
NEW SERIES No. 13
1. Expenditure s d
How much do you spend on the following: 1. Coal
2. Coke, Coalite, etc.
(a) In a winter week the average of the last four weeks
3. Paraffin
4. Firewood
Fire lighters
£ s d
(b) In a year, housewife's estimate:- 1. Coal
2. Coke, Coalite etc.
3. Paraffin
4. Firewood,etc.
5. Gas from Company
6. Electricity from Company
2. Do you belong to a Coal Club?
YES 1
NO 2
3. How much do you pay for a cwt. of coal?
4. How much coal do you buy at a time?
5. Why do you buy this quantity?
2. Cooking
6. What fuel do you use for cooking?
7.(a) If you use coal for cooking do you use –
or a stove which
(a) an open fire only 1
(b) heats another room 2
(c) heats water in a boiler 3
(d) heats water for kitchen sink or bathroom 4
(b) If gas, has it a Regalo?
YES 1
NO 2
8. Have you cooked with any other kind of stove, range or oven in the past?
9. What are your likes and dislikes about the cooking apparatus your have used?
10. What type of cooking apparatus would you like best?
11. What are your reason for liking this?
12. Have you ever used it?
YES 1
NO 2
3. Heating
13. At what times and on what days do you heat the following rooms at the present time of year? In what way?
| Rooms | Time of lighting * fire | Time when fire is * no longer made up | Hours | Type of Heater | ||
| Weekdays | Sunday | Weekdays | Sunday | |||
| Scullery | ||||||
| Working Kitchen | ||||||
| Kitchen Sitting room | ||||||
| Sitting room | ||||||
| Bedrooms 1. | ||||||
| 2. | ||||||
| 3. | ||||||
14. (a) Have you any likes and dislikes about central heating?
(b)Have you had any direct experience of central heating?
YES 1
NO 2
15. Would you like central heating in all your rooms, and constant hot water in your kitchen and bathroom? (No boiler in the house, no stoking, no ashes, etc.)
YES 1
NO 2
16. If there was a charge in the winter months, how much would you be prepared to pay?
Up to 5s. 1
Up to 3s. 6d. 2
Up to 2s. 6d. 3
Nothing 4
Don't know 5
17. Would you still like central heating if there were no coal fire places in the house?
YES 1
NO 2
18. Another possible arrangement is to have central heating in the sitting room and constant hot water in the kitchen and bathroom. Would you like this?
YES 1
NO 2
19. If there was a charge in the winter months would you be prepared to pay?
Up to 4s. 6d. 1
Up to 3s. 2
Up to 2s. 3
Nothing 4
Don't know 5
20. would you still like this arrangement if there was no coal fireplace in your sitting room?
Yes 1
No 2
21. If it was possible to have part of your house centrally heated which part would you choose?
22. Why
4. Water Heating, Baths and Laundry
23. How do you heat (a) Baths
water for (b) Washing Clothes
24. What other kind of water heating have you had in the past?
25. What are your likes and dislikes about these?
26. What kind of hot water supply would you like best?
27. How many times a week do you use hot water for baths?
28. Would more baths be taken if (a) they cost less?
YES 1
NO 2
(b) if it was easier to heat the water
YES 1
NO
29. Would you like constant hot water laid on in your kitchen and bathroom (without central heating)
YES 1
NO 2
30. How much would you be prepared to pay for this?
Up to 2s.6d 1
Up to 2s. 2
1s. 6d.3
Nothing 4
Don't know 5
31. Do you do all your own washing?
YES 1
NO 2
32. Is there a communal laundry or public washouse within 10 minutes walk?
YES 1
NO 2
33 Do you use it for (a)Regularly for all washing 1
(b) Occasionally for all washing 2
(c) Regularly for heavy clothes, Sheets Overalls etc. 3
(d) Occasionally for Heavy clothes, sheets etc. 4
(e) None. 5
34. What clothes do you send to the Laundry 1
(a) All your washing 1
(b) Heavy clothes, sheets, overalls etc 2
(c) None 3
35. Do you use
(a)Finished Service 1
(b)Bagwash 2
36. What does it cost each week
(a)In winter
(b)In Summer
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