[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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    Milk Supply.—Dairies, cowsheds and milk })urveyors on the register, 70 ; ins})ected periodically. Meat rNSPP:cTroNS.—No. of slanghter-houses, 5 ; licensed, 2 ; registered, 3 ; in¬ spections made periodically. Factories and Workshops.—No. registered, 1 ; bakehouses, 21 ; outworkers, 0. Local Government Board Inquiries.—Two, one at Hornblotton and West Bradley re apportionment of expenses of water sup])ly and the other at Evercreech in regard to water supply. Adopted Acts.—Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 (part HI, secs. 29, 30 and 31), and Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890. Improvements required.—Extra houses in Ditcheat. Water supply for Pilton. Improvements recorded as carried out in 1913 Report.—Joint Isolation Hospital opened. TAUNTON. RURAL DISTRICT. M.O.H., Dr. Henry Alford. Sanitary Inspector, E. H. Gardiner. Area, in acres, 4,079. Population.—Census 1911, 17,834. Estimated to middle of 1913, 17,886. No. OF Inhabited Houses, 4,079. New houses erected during the year, 27. Some vital Statistics for Seven Years. YEAR. Birth Rate. Death Rate. Phthisis Death Rate. Other Tubercular Diseases Death Rate. Rate of Infantile Mortality. 1907 21-3 144 1.27 0.23 70.3 1908 186 144 1.79 0 23 620 1909 19-1 11-9 1.25 0.17 63.0 1910 20.0 11.2 225 0.10 46.3 1911 17.8 12.0 1.73 Oil 44.0 1912 15-5 11-6 080 0.11 79.4 1913 17-2 12.4 0.67 005 62.5 Infectious Diseases.—Cases notified, fever, 7 ; erysi})elas, 5 ; [)uerperal 60. Scarlet fever, 4 ; fever, 0 ; tuberculosis. di})htheria, 12; enteric 30 ; ophthalmia neona¬ torum, 2. Deaths from measles, 3 ; whoo})ing cough, 3. Premises disinfected after death or removal of tuberculous patients. Isolation Hospital. District Council. —J’aunton Isolation Hospital Scarlet fever, 4 ; diphtheria, (3ied(h)n l\oad, 9; enteric, I. joint with Grban