A 52-year-old council tenant in Mansfield died of lung disease that doctors believe may have been caused by her mouldy home.
Jane Bennett lived in a house provided by Mansfield district council from October 2022 until she was admitted to intensive care in May 2023 with respiratory failure. She was treated with antifungals and antibiotics, but died at King’s Mill hospital on 8 June this year.
The case comes a year after a coroner ruled that Awaab Ishak, who was two, died from the effects of mould in a social housing flat in Rochdale and after Michael Gove, the housing secretary, said “such tragedies should never happen again”.
Council housing, social landlords. Abolish the lot, obvs.
Wonder if she had a certain recent medical interphention?
“Wonder if she had a certain recent medical intervention?”
Or been living in a house thats been insulated as tight as a drum (to save the planet naturally), and been turning the heating up to 11 with no ventilation?
On the recent medical interventions, someone I know has recently been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a very nasty autoimmune disease. I wonder what on earth he could have done to trigger such an outbreak?
Private landlords or their agents make regular inspections and discovery of mould leads to a resolution of the problem, be it damp in the house or tenant misconduct.
Council landlords, it seems, have a different approach. Perhaps a relic from the old days, when houses were sufficiently draughty.
I wonder, Jim.
The way these people are dropping like fucking flies and the general public is able to pretend it away is funny/alarming.
eg look at this dickhead of a doctor (not Makis, he’s a good bloke)
https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1737694282583249372?s=20
Dr Rowena Burden died suddenly of a heart attack aged 58 on Dec 15, 2023
2x Sinovac
2x Moderna
1x Moderna, 1x Pfizer boosters
Fucking nuts.
Interested – Burden was a social activist, women’s and LGBTQ advocate
And a vaccine nut / Science™ worshipper. But isn’t it interesting how often these things are co-morbid?
You could do a Venn diagram for Maskies and Lefties, it’d be nearly a circle. They just can’t stop losing.
Steve – our best hope is that they’re going to exterminate themselves.
Meanwhile, Jeff Childers on Celine Dion’s mystery ‘stiff person syndrome’, and the sudden and unexpected deaths of a renowned 59-y-o French cardiologist and three US Army drill sergeants at the same base:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/clustered-thursday-december-21-2023?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=139980156&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=36p8q&utm_medium=email
A humidity guage costs three to eight quid on amazon. The council could pay more (they always do) but they could get them fitted with an alarm that goes off / notifies housing dept when rH goes above 70%.
The saving on refurbishment would pay for fitting the meters.
Still, on the bright side there is now accommodation available for a refugee family of Middle Eastern rocket scientists.
I had a mold problem last year. I stopped cheaping out on the tumble dryer and got a dehumidifier. Problem solved for £200.
The trouble is the attitude of dependency and expecting the council or the government to solve your problems. As the joke goes – the council around here are useless, I did a shit on Friday and they still haven’t been around to flush it
I did once have tenants who expected me to supply (replacement) toilet paper.
Worked the phones for a council housing maintenance department one summer and the stuff people would ring up about and complain was astounding, tighten the door handle, loose screw, etc. If you have time on your hands then complaining about stuff is just a way of filling it.
A recently retired army sergeant started same day as me and lasted 2 weeks, said he couldn’t put up with the complaining, verbal abuse and outright lying
ok, I know I’m just an ignorant septic here, but how the hell are these people letting the mildew get so bad they are dying from it? I’ve never lived in council/welfare housing, true, but I have lived plenty of cheap apartments, and all the bathrooms came with a vent fan in the ceiling. The kitchens generally don’t have outside venting, and in many cheap apartments they don’t even have a window. Still, the only place I’ve ever had mold buildup was the bathroom, even in Florida, and then only in the shower. You can buy cheap bleach cleaning products here to clean that, which I do, even on a limited income. Even at my laziest, it never gets that bad. I do open what windows I can when the outside temp is warm enough, but I can’t afford to keep very cold in summer or very hot in winter. Maybe that’s why I don’t get it.
Ah ComputerLabRat, having a number properties the problems arise because tenants won’t put on the heating (costs too much), won’t ventilate the place (makes it too cold) and won’t stop drying damp clothes indoors (too inconvenient and/or costly to do otherwise). That and the aforementioned ott insulation…
I don’t know if mold is a landlord problem.
Usually its caused because no one will open a window coupled with building requirements that seal the building so they become high humidity environments.
All the landlord ends up being able to do is bleach the walls every once in a while.
It’s our future paradise on earth. We are to live in sealed boxes with MVHR: mechanical ventilation, and heat recovery of what little the heat pump can generate.
I just leave a dehumidifier in every house, cheaper than a damp problem.
Mold? Only place we had that was in Singapore, where it’s near 100% humidity and HOT. And then that mold was mostly in the back of cupboards where things were not taken out often enough.
It’s a moron problem, not a landlord problem. Open a window.
In older properties, a good way to create damp problems is covering the outside walls with impermeable paint or concrete – these properties were designed to breathe. Another sure fire method is cavity wall insulation, installed by cowboys – sort of thing that happens when governments throw billions into a “let’s create better insulated homes” project.
Something about social housing you may not be aware of. It can be the policy of social housing managers to intentionally allow housing to degenerate due to lack of maintenance & repairs, with tenants in situe. I’ve personally seen this with a number of London housing trust properties. It’s to do with overall housing policy. The intention is to allow the property to degrade below what can be then described as “economic repair”. Which then enables to property to be sold off & removed from their housing stock. I know this was the case with the London housing trusts because it aligned with their policy of moving away from away from dwellings suitable for single persons & small family units in the direction of those for larger families. You guessed it. They’re prioritising immigrants over indigenous. Although they of course would plead they are “responding to housing need”. The vacating tenants get offered placement on various co-ownership schemes. Often out of the areas covered by the housing managements. So if you think they’re depopulating your cities of white people & replacing them with brown, you’re not a conspiracy theorist. They really are.