The tenants of almshouses will be able to apply for rebates of up to 80 per cent, if their incomes are low.
Each almshouse is different, and the trustees know the local conditions best.
The whole site comprises approximately five acres and included within its confines are twenty-two almshouses, at present held under requisition by the council.
Because their condition and situation were no longer considered satisfactory, the almshouses have been sold.
Now the tendency is reversed and many of these so-called almshouses are empty because people to place in them cannot be found.
I think some of the builders of the old almshouses in our country towns and villages possibly did better work than they knew.
We must not run away with the idea that all almshouses are bad; some of them are very good indeed.
As there are five inmates of the almshouses, that is approximately a clear income of£40 a year each.
