[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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    Housing.—Houses inspected, 0 ; houses closed, 0. The cottage closed in 1912 is vacant, and to be pulled down. More houses required. Milk Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk purveyors on the register, 3 ; no. of cow- keepers on the register, 1. Reported as satisfactory. Meat Inspections.^—-No. of slaughter-houses, 2. Slaughter-houses satisfactorily kept. Factories and Workshops.—Workshops satisfactorily kept. Local Government Board Inquiries.—One held in November in regard to proposal to build 26 cottages. Plans since sanctioned by the Board. Adopted Acts.—Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890. Improvements required.— Improvements recorded as carried out in 1913 Report.—Cottages at Parricks made satisfactorily habitable. YEOVIL URBAN DISTRICT. M.O.H., Dr. A. E. Remmett Weaver. Sanitary Inspector, F. Whalley. Area, in acres, 852. Population.—Census 1911, 13,759. Estimated to middle of 1913, 14,425. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 3,349. New houses erected during the jesiY, 125. Some a ital Statistics for Seven Y ears. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile i\Iortalit3n 1907 27.25 15-98 104 0-52 89-0 1908 23-5 11.5 051 017 880 1909 21.2 13.7 1-10 0 51 99-0 1910 22.1 12.1 10 0-66 530 1911 22.7 11 7 1.23 054 860 1912 20-2 11-6 0 98 0.00 66.4 1913 20 79 10 53 062 048 66.0 Infectious fever, 0 Diseases .—Cases ; erysipelas, 6 ; notified, 94. Scarlet fever, 3 ; diphtheria, 11 ; enteric ],)iierperal fever, 0 ; tuberculosis, 71 ; ophthalmia neona¬ torum, 3.