[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough Borough.

  • Loughborough (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1921
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    t LOUGHBOROUGH ANNUAL REPORTS of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH and INSPECTOR OF NUISANCES for the year ending 31st.December 1921. PUBLIC HEALTH STAFF 4) BOROUGH 0 F N.B.M.Blackham, Medical Officer of Health. Harold Bintcliffe, Sanitary Inspector. Certificate,Royal Sanitary Institute as Sanitary Inspector. Inspector of Meat & other foods. Sanitary Inspectors aB3oc.Examination Board as Sanitary Inspector. Nurse Sheppard, Health Visitor. REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER To the Town Council of the Borough of Loughborough. Mr.Mayor,Ladies & Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you my annual report for the year 1921. Area (acres) 3045 Population (1921) 26230 R.G. No,of inhabited houses 5860 ” families or separate occupiers.6045 Rateable value £100,448 Sum represented by a Id.rate £413. The Borough 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 O.D.in the neighbourhood of the meadows adjoining the river to 200 Q.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 Ohamwood Forest into the River Soar. The district to the northeast of the Midland Railway is practically unbuilt upon,the bulk of the property being built on the higher levels. The subsoil in the lower levels is drift gravel overlying the Upper Keuper Marls,and varies in thickness from 5 to 20 feet,and saturation level is found about four feet below the surface. In the remaining parts of the town the subsoil is practically the same except that the thicknesB of the gravel varies very considerably in certain parts of the town,there being only a few inches ond in other parts it runs to 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. Occupation of Inhabitants. The chief occupations are in hosiery factories and dyeing workshops. These employ a considerable proportion of female labour, but the health conditions in the hosiery and dyeing factories of Loughborough will compare favourably with other towns of the same size. There are also several large engin¬ eering firms employing mostly men, and in these the health conditions leave nothing to be desired.