[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C.
- Alnwick (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ]VIedical Officer of Health por the Year 1905. To THE Chairman and Members of the Alnwick Urban District Council. Gentlemen, In presenting my report for the past year I have departed somewhat from the stereotyped rule, inasmuch as I have divided the district into two separate parts, viz., that of the town proper, and that of the more rural portion of the district. The sanitary area of the Urban District Council readily lends itself to this division, as on the one hand, there is a population living strictly a town life, and on the other one living quite a country life. The division which seems to me to be most appropriate is to include in the town proper all that portion served by the public sewers (this includes two or three houses which may be disregarded), and to include in the rural portion, Alnwick Moor and the few additional houses in the district surrounding the town, such as Blakelaw Cottage, Alndyke, Bog Mill, &c. I propose to give the vital statistics of the whole district in the first instance, and then to a certain extent subdivide them into the aforesaid localities. Weather. The weather experienced during the past 12 months does not seem to have influenced the death-rate to any appreciable extent. The wet spring and autumn with an abnormally dry and early summer produced a totAl rainfall of 27*46 inches, an increase of i*i8 compared with last year’s fall, while the total number of days on which rain wr|s measured was 172 compared](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29487961_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
