[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough Borough.

  • Loughborough (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Area (Acres) ... ... ... 9,211 Population (Census 1931) ... ... 26,945 ta) ,, Estimated 1936 (Registrar General) 29,833 (b) Modified Estimate (excluding New Area for the first quarter of the year) designed for use with the composite records of Births, Deaths and Notifiable Diseases of the Year 1936 ... ... ... 29,280 No. of Inhabited Houses (1936) according to Rate Books ... ... ... 7,950 Average Number of Persons per house ... 3.6 Rateable Value, 1936 ... ... ... £181.581 Sum represented by Id. rate ... ... £643 The Borough of Loughborough is situated in the Valley of the River Soar, west of that River, which forms the eastern boundary of the Borough. The ground levels vary from 120 feet above O.D. in the neighbourhood of the Meadows adjoining the River Soar to 200 O.D. on the south western side of the Borough. The district between the Leicester Canal and the River is comparatively level, whilst the remainder of the Borough is undulating. The Hermitage Brook drains the lower levels above referred to, and the Woodbrook and Burleigh Brook drain the higher levels towards the Charnwood Forest into the River Soar. The dis¬ trict towards the north east of the Midland Railway is practically unbuilt upon, the bulk of the property being built upon the higher levels. The subsoil in the lower levels is drift gravel overlying the upper Keuper Marls, and varies in thickness from 5-20 feet, and the saturating level is about 4 feet below the surface. In the remaining parts of the town, the subsoil is practically the same, except that the thickness of gravels varies considerably; in certain parts of the town there are only a few inches and in other parts it runs from 10 to 15 feet chiefly in “pockets.” Subsoil water level would average 10 feet below the surface in the town other than the district east of the Midland Railway. WATER SUPPLY. The water supply of the district is derived from the uplands of Charnwood Forest, a sparsely populated district, most of which is grass land. The water has no plumbo-solvent action, and is collected from the sources of supply of the Blackbrook and theWoodbrook, each stream having a separate reservoir in which the water is stored. The Blackbrook is the larger, as also is the reservoir, and stands on a higher altitude, so that the water gravitates therefrom to the Woodbrook reseivoir at Nanpantan, where ample means of filtering of the most recent type are available to render the water free from all risks of pollution. The supply is ample and continuous. Mains extended to Rural Areas—Belton, Long Whatton, Hathern, Sutton Bonington, Normanton and East Leake. During the year the mains were extended to new Building Estates. The supply has been satisfactory in (a) quality and (b) quantity.
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