[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Saddleworth U.D.C.

  • Saddleworth (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Saddleworth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of Workshops registered in your district is 31, including g Bakehouses. There are no underground Bakehouses. There are 35 Factories, but no Domestic Factories. \\\ the Workshops, and most of the Factories have been inspected, but no legal proceedings have been taken. The Lists of Outworkers received are 10 in number, representing 10 employers, and 144 outworkers. No action has resulted from an outworker having infected premises. During the year 32 inspections of workshops were made. Rates. During the past year, the rates were 5/4 in the £, including a District Rate of 2/6 and a Poor Rate of 2/10 in the £; the former rate includes Lighting, Sanitary, and Special Sanitary Rates. The gross estimated Rental was jTgy.oiS. The rateable value of agricultural land was £5,6yg, and of buildings, etc., £6g,6ss. The statistics for England and Wales being now available, I give the following table for comparison. England and Wales. England & Wales less the Towns. U. S.D. of Saddleworth Death-rate . i6‘2 i5‘3 147 Zymotic Death-rate.. 1*94 1-28 I‘04 Infantile Mortality... 146 125 ii7‘6 Birth-rate. 27-9 26-8 207 Reviewing the health of the district for the year 1904, I feel much inclined to congratulate you, as the death-rate, I4'7, is e.xceptionally low. This is in great part due to the great decrease in the number of deaths from diseases of the lungs and heart, and is doubtless explained by the excep¬ tionally fine weather we had during the summer and autumn. The number of deaths from zymotic diseases is, however, somewhat larger than usual, and there is an unusually large number of uncertified deaths. Then we had epidemics of Measles and Scarlet Fever, which, though causing few deaths, were responsible for a great deal of sickness. The water supplied by the .Ashton, Stalybridge, and Dukinfield Waterworks, although now satisfactory, was for a long time prejudicial to health. The RnguiREMENTS of the District are— 1. Sewering of Saddleworth Fold. 2. Hospital for Infectious Diseases. 3. Tips at Greenfield, Higgle, and Denshaw. 4. Adoption of the bacterial method to the whole of the sewage. In conclusion, I append a copy of the Meteorological Report, and the Nuisance Inspector’s Report. I remain, Yours faithfully, HERBERT RAMSDEN.