[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report on the Health of Derbyshire for the Year 1931. STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. AREA. The Administrative County of Derby comprises 40 Sanitary Districts, four of which are Municipal Boroughs, 21 Urban Dis- tricts and 15 Rural Districts. According to the Census Return for 1931 the County has a total area of 640,701 acres, 92,588 in the Boroughs and Urban Districts and 548,113 in the Rural Districts. POPULATION. The population of the Administrative County at the time of the 1931 Census was 614,926, 316,440 in Borough and Urban Districts and 298,486 in Rural Districts. The Registrar-General’s estimate of the population to the middle of 1931, on which the various calculations in this Report are based, is 618,500, i.e. 318,000 in Borough and Urban Districts and 300,500 in Rural Districts. The estimated and the Census populations of each Sanitary District are given in Tables II. and Ila. INHABITED HOUSES. The estimated number of houses in the County at the end of 1931 was 152,113 of which 77,484 are in Boroughs and Urban Districts and 74,629 in the Rural Districts. During 1931, 2,486 new houses were erected. RATEABLE VALUE. The Rateable Value of the Administrative County of Derby in April, 1931, for County Rate purposes was £2,665,597, and a Penny Rate over the whole County represents the sum of £10,307. PHYSICAL FEATURES AND CHIEF OCCUPATIONS. The main industries which give the people of this county occupa- tion are coal mining, carried on in the East and North-East and in a small area in the South-Western portion of the county, and agri- culture, particularly in the Western and Central parts of the county.