Municipal hygiene and demography.
- International Congress of Hygiene and Demography
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Municipal hygiene and demography. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The County Borough of Hanley. Delegates to the Congress. Councillor M. Huntbach, Mayor. Major H. Palmer. Alderman E. J. Hammersley. John Clare, L.E.C.S. (Ed.), L.S.A. (Lond.), Medical Officer of Health. Joseph Lobley, M. Inst. C.E., Borough Surveyor. The county borough of Hanley is situate in the northern part of the county of Stafford on the north bank of the River Trent, and is about 147 miles distant from London. The county borough is immediately surrounded by four municipal boroughs and a local board district; it contains the largest population of the pottery towns, of which it is the most central and important, anfl is styled “ the metropolis of the potteries.” A hundreil years ago Hanley presented only a humble collection of dwellings cliiefly confined to two small villages half a mile apart. In 1801 it contained a ])opulation of 7,940 inhabitants ; in 1821, 12,956; in 1841, 20,7cSl ; in 1861, .3.3,009; in 1871, 41,976; in 1881, 48,361 ; and at the last census in 1S91, 54,846. The Borough has an .area of • 1,76S acres, and was incorporated in the year 1857; prior to which, from the year 1825, it was Avatclied and lighted under a local Act of Parliament whicli appointed Commissioners and empowered tliose Commissioners to appoint a chief bailiff who was to be sworn as a constable, also a head and deputy constable and watchman for the preservation of the peace in the town. The Act further empowered the Commissioners to light the streets and to levy rates. Hanley, in addition to being a municipal borough, is also, ^vith the adjoining borough of Burslem, a parliamentary borough, and was formed into a county borough by the Local Government Act of 1888. It is a market town, and situate Avithin the parish of Stoke-upon-J'rent, the hundred of North Pireliill, the deanery of Newcastle and Stone, the archdeaconry of Stafford, and the diocese of Lichfield; and has a separate Commission of the Peace and Court of Quarter Sessions, as well as its own Police force. The chief productions of the borough are earthenware and china, some of the largest manufactories in the district being established in the town. Coal and iron are also extensively produced within the municipal boundary. The history of Hanley is almost confined to its rajjid rise and development which is owing to its being the chief seat of the china and earthenware manufacture, for it formerly ranked only as one of the numerous villages of the potteries district. From its topographical situation on the summit and sides of a considerable elevation it is, for a manufacturing town, very healthy. Extensive drainage works have been carried out at a cost of 70,000/., the sewage being treated by precipitation in tanks followed by filtration through land. Extensive parks are about to be provided ; and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28045506_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
