[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEWPORT (Rural). Medical Officer of Health Area in Acres Population at igoi Census Number of inhabited Houses ,, Number of persons per house ,, M. GePP, L.R.C.P.B., D.P.H. 22,807 6,033 1,284 4.7 Physical Features and General Character. ‘' The District is in part agricultural and part industrial, and lies within the eastern border of the County. ‘ ‘ The northern and larger part is on the Shropshire Plain, here formed of the Bunter beds of the New Red “ Sandstone, and is entirely agricidtural. The elevation of tliis part varies from 150 to 300 feet above Ordnance “ Datum. The southern and much smaller part rises rather rapidly from the plain, reaching some 500 feet “ elevation at the extreme border on the south, and comprises the apex of the extensive triangular coal-field, “ wliich has its base some miles to the south. This part lies upon the coal measures, with a small intrusive “ outcrop of much broken older strata, forming Lilleshall Hill. The natural drainage is by various small ‘ ‘ streams from the south and east flowing towards the west, and falling into the Tern river outside the District. “ There are nine parishes in the District, all agricultural, except the large parish of Lilleshall, which is in “ part agricultural, but also contains the industrial area of Donnington Wood, several collieries and some “ engineering and other ironworks, employing the majority of the workers in this area.” Statistics. The natural increase of population during the year was 52. The population is estimated at the middle of 1909 to be 5996, and corrected for public institutions, 6020. Period. Death-rates per 1000 population from Infant Death- rate per 1000 Births. Birth¬ rate. All Causes. Seven Chief Zymotic Diseases. Epidemic Inlluenza. Phthisis. Other Tubercular Diseases. Bron¬ chitis. Pneu¬ monia. Heart Diseases Cancer. 1909 15-9 •17 116 1-33 100 1-50 1-16 216 1-33 114 23-2 Averages for vears 1899-1908 15-2 . . . . . - 1 1 ] 1 116 25-4 The zymotic death-rate was due to i death from diphtheria. Infectious Disease. Thirteen cases of scarlet fever, 5 of diphtheria, 1 of puerperal fever and I of erysipelas were notified. The scarlet fever cases were mostly scattered. One was apparently a ‘ return ’ case arising from a case discharged from a fever hospital in a large town. The cases of diphtheria were obscure and unconnected. The Council has agreed to accept the offer of the Shropshire Nursing Federation for the supply of a nurse in times of epidemics of measles and whooping cough.