[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The census populations of the Parishes varied from 13,660 in Christ Church to 354 in St. Peter’s, and that of the Wards varied from 16,836 in the East Ward to 6,101 in the West Ward. Owing to such variety in population the Parishes for Sanitary purposes are of no use as units and the wards though convenient for vital statistics have by unequal growth become inconvenient for use as Sanitary areas for Inspectors. In 1902 when the growth of the Borough and the increase of duties of the Department led to the appoint- ment of a fourth Inspector, a re-arrangement of Districts was made, the Wards having grown unequally in population and extent. During 1904 there were and there are now four Sanitary Districts, in each of which, under the Medical Officer of Health, an Inspector has full charge in all respects, including the removal of infectious cases, the working of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, etc. These four Sanitary Districts are constituted as follows : (1) St. Mary’s District, coinciding with St. Mary’s Ward. (2) West District, being that part of the town West of Victoria Place and Terminus Road and South of Grove Road and Compton Place Road. (3) Central District, bounded on the West by Terminus Road and Victoria Place, on the East by Lower Drove from Seaside to Whitley Road, on the North by the Railway, and on the South by Marine Parade and Seaside. (4) East District, comprising all South-East of Seaside and that part North of Seaside from Lower Drove Eastwards. The estimated populations of these districts, calculated on the basis of the Census returns of 1901, are as follows :—