[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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    WELLINGTON, URBAN DISTRICT. M.O.Ii., Dr. R. W. H. Meredith (temjiorary). Sanitary [iispector, E. T. Howard Area, in acres, 5,295. Population.—Census 1911, 7,034. Estimated to middle of 1913, 7,088. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 1,837. New houses erected during the year, 1. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. 1 Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile Mortality. 1907 17.6 14.9 1.05 0.13 141-8 1908 244 14.9 104 0.3,9 93.6 1909 16 9 12.0 1.69 0-39 100.0 1910 18.4 12.3 0-77 0-25 98-6 1911 20-0 10.9 0-78 0.00 104.6 1912 183 15.8 2.09 0-39 57.1 1913 17-2 12.4 0-26 0-26 53-0 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, 42. Scarlet fever, 4 ; di})htheria, 10 ; enteric fever, 2 ; erysipelas, 0 ; puerperal fever, 0 ; tuberculosis, 20 ; o])hthalmia neona¬ torum, 0. Deaths from measles, 0 ; whooping cough, 0. Dij)htheria antitoxin supplied free of charge. Isolation .Hospital.—None, but by arrangement five cases were sent to Tiverton Isolation Hospital. \Vater Supplv.—Good and sufficient. New supply from Payton s})ring yields 00 gallons ])er minute. Drainage and Sewage Disposal.—Satisfactory. Public Scavenging.—Reported satisfactory. Housing.—Houses inspected, 108 ; houses closed, 0. 108 inspections ; 280 re-inspections ; 55 notices served. IMany houses emjity. Milk Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk purveyors on the register, 20 ; no. of eow- keejiers on the register, 14. No complainfs received. Meat Inspections.—No. of slaughter-houses, 12; licensed, 1 ; Regularly insj)ected. A few minor defects only found. registered, 11. O
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