[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough.

  • Keighley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the: seventeenth ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE BOROUGH OF KEIGHLEY. » ♦ I TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COUNCILLORS. Gentlemen, I have pleasure in laying before you my Report for the year ending 31st December, 1898. A great deal has been done during the year in many ways to improve the general sanitation of the Borough, but probably the outstanding feature is the Keighley Corporation Act, 1898, to which the royal assent was given in August last. Among the various provisions, of this Act none are more important from a sanitary point of view than the increased powers to extend and protect our water supply, and to substitute water carriage for the present insanitary tub and privy- midden system.. Both from an economical and a health point ofview.it is desirable that the old. system should be done away with, and now that you have the power we can look forward to a new series of improvements being carried out which should enhance the general sanitary condition of the Borough. hast year I congratulated you upon having the lowest death-rate since the incorporation of the Borough, and this year, though rather higher than last, the late is still considerably less than the average for theprevious ten years. Our Zymotic death-rate, however, is the highest