[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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    Factories and Workshops.—No. registered, IIG; bakehouses, 22; outworkers, 10; nature of outwork—making of wearing apparel. \ery little accommodation is provided for im])orted pea-})ickers, and no sanitary conveniences. Local Government Board Inquiries.—None. Adopted Acts.—The Public Health Acts Amendment Acts, 1890 and 1907, Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890, and Notification of Births Act, 1907, have not been adopted. Improvements required.—Steam disinfector. Improvements recorded as carried out in 1913 Report.—Extensions of water supply and of sewers. CHARD. I RURAL DISTRICT. M.O.H., Dr. Ian G. Sibbald. Sanitary Inspector, Edward Carter. Area, in acres, 52,992. Population.—Census 1911, 13,389. Estimated to middle of 1913, 13,408. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 3,183. New houses erected during the year, 24. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile Mortality. 1907 19-2 130 054 046 76.9* 1908 23.9 14.3 0.61 0.15 100.0 1909 21.5 11.9 062 0.00 788 1910 21.9 12-4 0.45 0.22 75.3 1911 21-7 12.4 082 0.00 75.5 1912 20 3 122 052 0.15 102.9 1913 220 10.7 0.52 0.22 64.4 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, 83. Scarlet fever, 25 ; fever, 9 ; ervsi})elas, 7 ; puerperal fever, 0 ; tuberculosis, toi'um, 0. Deaths from measles, 2 ; whoo})ing cough, 1. Six of the enteric fever cases were one outbreak. diphtheria, 13 ; enteric 29 ; o})hthalmia neona- IsoLATiON Hospitai..—Small-})ox Hospital only. Water Supply.—Wry little alteration during the year. There are several })ublie suj)- plies and a number of joint su})])lies })rovided by ])rivate owners. Drainacje and Cieoi’ge and SEWA(iE DlsposaIv.— ITxteiisions of sewei’s Misterton. No com])laints received. proposed for Hinton St.