Report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances of the Axbridge Rural District, Somerset, by Dr. Reginald Farrar.

  • Farrar, Reginald Anstruther, 1861-1921.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary circumstances of the Axbridge Rural District, Somerset, by Dr. Reginald Farrar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report to the Local Government Board on the Sanitary Circumstances of the Axbridge Rural District, Somerset, by Dr. Reginald Farrar. Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer, 17th January, 1910. In consequence of difficulties experienced in providing water for certain parts of this district, the Axbridge Rural District Council requested the Local Government Board to hold an inquiry into the matter, and it was decided that inquiry should be made into the sanitary circumstances of the rural district generally by one of the Board's Medical Inspectors. This duty was assigned to me, and I visited the district on July 14th, 1909, and on subsequent occasions. I conferred with the officers and several members of the rural district council at the council’s offices, and in the course of my inspection visited all the larger and many of the smaller towns and villages in the district, paying special attention to the circumstances of the North Marsh portion of the district. The Axbridge Rural District is co-terminous with the Axbridge Union, exclusive of the Weston-super-mare, Burnham, and High- bridge Urban Districts. The population was 23,397 at the census of 1891, 23,744 in 1901, and was estimated at 24,204 to the middle of 1908. The number of inhabited houses was 5,359 in 1901. The assessable value of the district was returned as £160,803 to Lady-day, 1908. The greater part of the population is engaged in agriculture, but there are a few small factories and breweries in the district, and several laundries at W orle. Topographical and Geological Considerations. The Rural District of Axbridge is bounded on the north by the Long Ashton Rural District, on the east by the Rural Districts of Clutton and Wells, on the south by the Bridgwater Rural District, and on the west by the Bristol Channel. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, By DARLING & SON, Ltd., 34-40, Bacon Street, E. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN and SONS, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C.; or OLIVER & BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh ; or E. PONSONBY, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin. 1910. Price Threepence. No. 21. (14859—21.) Wt. 23951—158. 500, 1/10, D & S, A