[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Heath Town D.C.

  • Heath (England). Town Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Heath Town D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Description of District.—This is required by the Local Government Board and the County Council. The town has an acreage of 738. It is bounded on the north by the Cannock Rural District, on the west by the Wolverhampton County Borough ; on the south by the Wolverhampton County Bor¬ ough and Willenhall Urban District, with a broad tongue of Bilston Urban District approaching within a few yards of the boundary ; and on the east by Wednesfield Urban District. The population is largely an artisan one, and is grouped together in three centres : Park Village with 832 houses in the north, Heath Town proper with 1215 houses in the centre, north-east, and east ; and Moseley Village with 445 houses in the south-east. The two former centres, though distinct, are coterminous in places ; but Moseley Village is situated about one mile off, the intervening country being sparsely populated. Geological^, the district is divided by a fault into two forma¬ tions. This fault extends as an almost straight line from S.W. to N.E. It ma}^ be reproduced on the map by drawing a line from where the Midland Railway crosses over the Grand Junction Line to where the canal runs alongside the Wednesfield Road, continuing it along the straight part of the road, and producing it in both direc¬ tions to the boundaries. North-west of this line is the lower red sandstone and marl. South-east of it are the coal measures, while just to the south of the loop line bridge over Dean’s Road is a small outcrop ol greenstone. In the sandstone and marl formation there are many clay-pits and brickworks. In the coal measures the pits are all worked out or abandoned.