[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington R.D.C.
- Darlington (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![s ^ SSCTIOIT A GEJTSRAL STATigTIC:3 Area of riura.1 J'ietrici in ..crp&.eo . = ,,o „ 45,C64 Resident Populationo ^ o o ..... o , 9,382 Number of Inhabited Houses , , « , . .. o » « , . « . „ » c „ » « 2,548 Sum represented by a penny rate, . o, . £314,11,2-. Reteable value at 1st A-.a^l, 1945= o,,, o, , £75494 SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND HITLOYI'INT. The chief inoustries are Agriculture, lime Burriinr, end General Quarrying, Many of the popule.ticn are engaged, in viorks in the Borough of Darlington, the Urban district of Shild.cn anc: The Rural District of Stockton, The conversion of the Royal Crdnonce Ja^ctory at ilycliife into a Tr ding Dstate lies made r^ood progress to date. There are 42 industrial undrrtakings operating as tenant>3 on the Dstate and empl oy in..- approxii; at ely 2,600 people. Some of tiu se undertuKiings have coi:i:e frorr; ether pa.rts of the country necessiteting the importing of key men into the erea. In vien of this and the need for housing in ccnn;;ctiorj with the Iracina Dstatc the LinierUr of To’'\;n & Country Planning has Gonsirc-ed the necessity cf a n^vv toun at rycliffe. Sites have been suggested one south of the eeeisting village and the other to the north. Messrs, Crossley A Sons, Brier Lactory at Hurvi/orth is now in the course of erection and it is hoped that by the eutuun of 1947 it eill bee in production. llesers. W, H, Arnott Young limited cci/renced in Pebruarj^ with the demolition and site- cl-carance of the linthorpc and Dinedalc Smelting Company Limited works at Middleton-St-G coj.g-. These comprised three large furnesses, engine shops and approeciiratcly six miles of railway sidings, Appi oximatcly 20-3C men have had £mplo..ueLnt during the year and 6,CCC tons - cf iron sand steel and 1,'GC0,0C0 bricks hc-ve been salvagv-d which will help to meet the present shortage cf these materials. The lintliorpe & Dinsdale Cmelting Go, Ltd., has not operated since 193L and 1 understand th t tiie derelict works have be-.n cltar^d to provide sites for light industrial undertakings. Unemployment in th- area during 1946 wa.s ticgligabl. and those out of work were suffering from physical handicap or v;cr£ past midclc age. A^^cliffe Trading Ustete is stil], afcEorbing a larg-- amount of labour and will continue- to do so during 1947, DivTr: 'IC3 BIRTH rat: The number of Live Births in the District wase 152 as age.inst 155 in the prcviouc year. Th: sox legitimacy classification is clra'-in thus:- ilale ■ Lemale T ot a 1 l_gitir:.ate 32 63 141 Illegitimate 257 The Birth Rats per 1,OCO of the estimated population is 16 = 2C as compared with a rate of 17.39 last yo:r. The rate, for -ngiand and Vales is 19.1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29149678_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
