A young wife claimed she was unable to conceive a baby because she lived too high in a block of flats and medical experts were taking her seriously.
The Sun reported on July 23, 1971, that the 26-year-old woman had asked the urban council at Cariton to rehouse her and her husband as she had become infertile.
Medical officer Dr Joyce Goldsborough backed her request.
Dr Goldsborrough told the tabloid: “There are sometimes more than physical reasons for a woman being unable to conceive.
“Living conditions can make a woman dissatisfied and this often leads to some kind of
mental barrier,”
The couple who have not been named asked for Carlton Urban District Council for a council house on hardship grounds.
The council was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and combined with Arnold Urban District and part of Basford Rural District to form the new Gedling Borough Council.
The housing committee refused the request for a house because the couple had no children.
Carlton Urban Council clerk Ernest Jones said: At first we thought it was a rather ludicrous request.
But after hearing the medical side, we took it very seriously”
Really, crikey don’t give them anymore absurd excuses to queue jump others.Some will read this and start a bit of grey matter going.