[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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    To the Chairman and Members of the Public Health and Housing Committee, Somerset County Council. Gentlemen,— I beg to submit my fifth Annual Report upon the Health and Sanitary Adminis¬ tration of the County, together with Summaries of the Reports of the Medical Officers of Health in the County for the year 1913. The Vital Statistics for the year 1913 dealing with the County as a whole, are con¬ sidered and set out in a number of tables. The death-rate is again below that for the previous year, and below the average for the previous ten years. The continued decline in the death-rate and other mortality figures is very satisfactory. Each year it is pleasing to record continued improvements as regards public health provision. A number of fresh pure water supplies are installed every year. In the County as a whole the most unfit houses are being closed while many of the defective houses are being improved. More houses are badly required in many of the rural and some of the urban districts. A good deal is being done although it is evident that much remains to be done. The report contains an extended account of what is being done as regards housing while a summary is given of the work of the County Council, in conjunction Avith the County Insurance Committee, in regard to Tuberculosis. The organisation is still incomplete but it is being steadily developed. Other sections of the report are devoted to Water Supply, River Pollution, Adminis¬ tration of the Midwives’ Act, Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, etc. Your obedient Servant, Weston-super-Mare, July, 1914. WILLIAM G. SAVAGE.
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