[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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    loo Cowsheds, etc., are periodically inspected and are generally clean, but some are deficient in size, but, as the cows are kept out to grass during the greater part of the year the animals are rarely in the sheds except for a very short period during the winter. Mr]AT Inspections.—No. of slaughter-houses, 5 ; licensed, 5 ; registered, 0 ; in¬ spections made periodically. Factories and Workshops.—No. registered, 4 (factories) ; bakehouses, 11 ; out¬ workers (workshops), 148 ; outworkers (workrooms), 8 ; nature of outwork— chiefly leather work. Local Government Board Inquiries.—None. Adopted Acts.—Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, not adopted ; Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, in part adopted ; Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890, not adopted. Improvements required.—Flushing' cisterns for water-closets. Improvements recorded as carried out in 1913 Report.—Completion of houses erected by the Urban District Council. Increased water supply. Installation of telephone at Isolation Hospital. TAUNTON. URBAN DISTRICT. M.O.H., Dr. Henry Alford. Sanitary Inspector, J. W. Northcombe. Area, in acres, 1,390. Population.—Census 1911, 22,710. Estimated to middle of 1913, 22,857. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 5,121. New houses erected during the year, 33. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile Mortality. 1907 25-3 15.3 1.04 0-31 138.5 1908 20-1 15.2 1.13 0-45 132.5 1909 20-9 13-7 0-98 0.31 113.7 1910 21.0 11.7 084 0-22 76.2 1911 21.3 15.4 0-88 0-48 112.0 1912 19.3 12-4 0-92 010 93.1 1913 18-2 14-4 0-52 0-35 124-4 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, 201. Scarlet fever, 34 ; diphtheria, 70 ; enteric fever, 3 ; erysipelas, 5 ; pureperal fever, 1 ; tuberculosis, 85 ; ophthalmia neona¬ torum, 1 ; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 1 ; poliomj^elitis, 1.