[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset Council
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STREET. URBAN DISTRICT. Sanitary lns])cctor, W'. H. CuusiKS. Dr C. \V. Ecna^ToN. Area, in acres, 2,918. PornLATiON.—Census 4,925. Estimated to middle of 1919, 4,992. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 994. New houses erected during the year, 90. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Kate. Death Kate. Ihithisis Death Kate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Kate. Kate of Infantile Mortaht3u 1907 19.6 7.6 0.23 0.00 82-3 1908 20-5 11.8 0.68 0.00 66-6 1909 20-9 106 0-22 0.22 96-7 1910 20.3 lO-O 0-69 0-22 87.9 1911 16.03 11-08 0-47 0.23 102-9 1912 21.1 10.5 0.7 0-23 66-6 1913 21.23 8.3 046 0-00 21-9 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, 70. Scarlet fever, 40 ; diphtheria, 1 ; enteric fever, 0 ; erysipelas, 0 ; puerperal fever, 0 ; tuberculosis, 29 ; 0})hthalmia neona¬ torum, 0. Deaths from measles, 0 ; whoo})ing cough, 0. All cases are kept under observation and in case of removal or death the premises are disinfected. Isolation Hospital.—Joint for Glastonbury and Street, situate.1 mitiv'ay Ijetween the two places in the Dorough of Glastonbury. Gne case of fiiphtheria and four of scarlet fever admitted. Water Supita:.—In addition to tlie original s})rings during the year a bore-hole was sunk at Rodne}^ Stoke for a supplementary supply, the cpuintity and (piality of which })roved quite satisfaetory. ilRAiNAGE AND Sewage DISPOSAL.—Gnly a tew houses with earth (‘losets. Additional sewer constructed. Public Scavenging.—Has been reorganised, regular collections of refuse being made and sanitarily disposed of. Housing.—Houses inspected, 121 ; houses closed, 2. During the yt'^ir 90 new houses liave been crc(*ted and are all occu{)ied. I lu're is hardlv a vacant house in the district. Eive cases of overcrowding dc'alt with. i\I]LK Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk purveyors oji the registei’, 18; no. of cow- keepers on the register, — ; periodically inspected duihig the year.