[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTIOX II. GEf^ERAL FEATURES AND STATISTICS. The County Horout^h of Darlington is situated on low-Iyinp^ i‘ land in the valley of the Skerne a tributary of the Tees. The subsoil consists of beds of glaciated clay ■with veins of sand jind 1 magnesian limestone. The height above sea level ranges from : 120 to 240 feet so that its situation is somewhat like that of the centre of a saucer on account of the hills on all sides. Hy reason I of this ))rotected jmsition, the climate is mild and somewhat ! relaxing, conducing to a profusion of vegetation, some of it, tro})ical I in nature, to be found in the i)ublic parks of which there is ample I provision to the extent of 200 acres. While it is the natural centre of the neighbouring agricultural i districts of Durham and the North Riding with an excellent I market once a week its inhabitants are principally occu]:>ied in ' trades connected with railway and engineering work of world : wide rc])ute, with old established wool spinning and more recently i the chemical industry at Billingham and Cockerton. Area of the Borough.—1,014 acres. Population .—1921 Census 05,842 Kstimated, mid-year 1929 .... .... .... 71,790 The natural increase of the })opulation, as calculated from the difference between the birth rate and death rate amounts to 3.7 per thousand, reduced by the outbreak of inlluenza in March yet higher than that (2.9) for England and AVales. Census Statistics, 1921.— Average Rooms per Dwelling 4.41 Families per Dwelling 1 .()() Persons ))cr Family .... .... .... 4.39 Rooms ])cr Person .... 0.94 Number of Private Families 14,483 Structurally scj)aratc Dwellings occupied 13,(534 Population li\4ng more than 2 persons to one Room 10,912 Number of Families sharing a sc])aratc Dwelling .... 849 latter figure represents 5.8 ])er ( *cnt. of the total fain