[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council.

  • Derbyshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Derbyshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT ON THE HEALTH OF DERBYSHIRE FOR THE YEAR 1958 STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS AREA AND POPULATION The Administrative County of Derby comprises twenty-nine Sanitary Districts, four of which are Municipal Boroughs, sixteen Urban Districts and nine Rural Districts. The County has an area of 635,456 acres, 98,065 in Municipal Boroughs and Urban Districts and 537,391 in Rural Districts. The population of the Administrative County as estimated by the Registrar-General at the middle of 1958 was as follows :— Municipal Boroughs .. .. .. 139,030 Urban Districts .. .. .. 225,470 Rural Districts .. .. .. 360,100 Total Administrative County .. 724,600 RATEABLE VALUE The rateable value of the Administrative County in April, 1958, for County Rate purposes was £8,029,517, and a penny rate over the whole County was estimated to produce the sum of £32,022. PHYSICAL FEATURES AND CHIEF OCCUPATIONS. The main industries which give the people of this county occupation, are coal mining carried on in the East and North-East and a small area in the South-Western portion of the County, and agriculture, particularly in the Western and Central parts of the County. The staple industries in the extreme North-Western area adjoining Lancashire are those connected with the cotton trade, whilst in the South-Eastern area adjoining Nottinghamshire the hosiery and lace trades provide the chief occupation. In this area, too, artificial silk manufacturers absorb an appreciable portion of the population. In the Northern and North-Central areas the chief industries are quarrying, limestone crushing and lime burning, working and dressing millstone grit, and silica brick making. A number of these industries come under the heading of “Refractories Industries”, some of which are known to pre-dispose to pulmonary disease. In the extreme South-Western portion of the County, pottery manufacture is one of the prominent industries. VITAL STATISTICS. The Vital Statistics relating to each District in the County for the year under review are given on pages 16 and 17.