[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C.

  • Clitheroe (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Rural District of Clitheroe is a somewhat awkward one to get round and supervise owing to the tact that it is practically divided into two rather widely separated parts by the wedge-shaped ])ortion of the West Riding of Yorkshire which lies between the Rivers Ribble and Hodder. This means that in passing from the Eastern division to the Western, on the Northern side there is about two miles of neutral or foreign territory to l:)e crossed before one again enters the District of Clitheroe. dhis, of coinse, adds very much to the mileage covered in getting lound the district and to the amount of time consumed on the way which is out of all proportion to the actual area in acres which has to be supervised, and which is comprehended within the borders of the District. Necessarily, therefore, the sanitary condition of the District is not all alike equally familiar, nor can the more distant and outlying xDortions be nearly so much under observation and become so we'lll'-knowni as that part of the Distriict which on® traverses from day to day while pursuing hi.s ordinary avocations. This is, of course, a drawback, but one which it is difficult to see how to obviate under presient conditions. It would be difficult, or almost impossible to say that, apart from the personal habits of certain sections of the community in the matter of diet and domestic hygiene, and to which I have referred in pre\ious reports at some length, there are any active influences directly endangering the public health at the present time. There are_, however, some conditions ol)taining in one or two parts of the District which possess possible poten- tialities for evil which might, under certain circumstances, threaten injuriously the public health of the community.