[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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    Improvements required.—Closure of dipping wells and provision of deep wells witli pumps. Sewerage improvements at Exford and Mrushford. Improve.ments recorded as carried out in 1913 Report.—Action taken to jircvent sewage pollution of River Barle. RURAL DISTRICT. FROME. Dr. C. R. Howard. Sanitaiy Inspectors, J. A. Beynon, J. B. Holroyd. Area, in acres, 51,448. Population.—Census 1911, 11,172. Estimated to middle of 1913, 11,172. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 2,675. New houses erected during the year, 8. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile Mortality. 1907 22.5 12.1 0.09 0.00 84.0 1908 20-5 10.0 0-80 017 800 1909 22-7 11.7 0-80 0.26 800 1910 23-1 9.0 0-89 0.17 36 0 1911 22.3 11.4 0.44 0.08 75.6 1912 20.3 11.1 0.45 0.09 70.4 1913 20-3 13.1 0.63 009 57-5 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, 42. Scarlet fever, 16 ; diphtheria, 8 ; enteric fever, 1 ; erysipelas, 4 ; puerperal fever, 2 ; tuberculosis, 11 ; ophthalmia neona¬ torum, 0. Deaths from measles, 4 ; whooping cough, 0. Isolation Hospital.—A house at Coleford is used. Eight cases of scarlet fever treated. Water Supply.—There are seven public supplies, all good except for an accidental contamination by cattle at Buckland, and impurity in the Wanstrow sup])ly. Road needs a better supply. Spring Gardens now supplied by extension from town main. Drainage and Sewage Disposal.—Drainage works are being considered for Norton St. Philip. Public Scavenging.—Satisfactorily carried out at Coleford. Not needed elsewhere. Housing.—Houses inspected, 498 ; houses closed, 1. Shortage of Houses.—At least a hundred more houses are needed at Coleford and Hells owing to the colliery extension. Milk Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk purveyors on the register, 272. .Meat Inspections.—No. of slaughter-houses, 13; licensed, 13; registered, 0; in¬ spections made frequently.