[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council.

  • Lanarkshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Lanark County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (6) The dependants of destitute unemployed insured persons would participate; (7) Payment would fluctuate according to the number of persons on the Poor Law Roll. School Health Administration. As a separate report was published giving the statistics with regard to School Health Administration for the period ended 31st July, it is unnecessary to give further figures here. The School Health Service is conducted as an entirely separate unit, and is administered by a Sub-Committee of the Education Committee and has no relation- ship to the Public Health Service. The Medical, Dental, Specialist, and Nursing Staffs are entirely separate from the Public Health Staff. Ambulance Facilities. The ambulance facilities remain as stated in the Annual Report for 1930, pages 16-17. STATISTICS. The Area of the County, inclusive of Small Burghs, was 533,156 acres, made up as follows :—Landward portion of County, 532,587 acres; Burgh of Biggar, 62 acres; Burgh of Lanark, 507 acres. Details of the acreage and population will be found in Table B. The density of population was 0'56 person to the acre. The preliminary Census population, 1931, inclusive of Small Burghs, was 302,495. The population as ascertained at the Decennial Censuses, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, and 1931 was as follows:— (Census Pojndation.) Year. (Jounty Landward. Burgh of Biggar. Burgh of Lanark. 1891, ... 209,814 1,356 4,579 1901, ... 261,314 1,326 5,359 1911, ... 302,615 1,366 5,900 1921, ... 295,451 1,489 6,268 1931. ... 294.994 1.323 6.178