[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    houses, and the use of the census factor of persons per house gave the most accurate results. At the County Borough Enquiry the figures thus obtained could not be successfull}^ controverted, and before the Parliamentary Committee they were accepted as sufficient evidence that our population exceeded the necessary 50,000. I think, on the whole, the method gives a very fair average resident population for the town, because although the winter population may be slightly less, the summer population of residents is greatly in excess, as there is no doubt that the census factor is too small even for residents only during the summer months. When we consider the large number of domestic servants, shop attendants, and others engaged in the work of the town, who come here for the season only, and when we take into account the large influx of hawkers and street vendors, we can easily see the resident population is greatly increased during the season. All these have to be counted as residents should infectious disease or death overtake them whilst here for work, and therefore some allowance must be made for them in esti- mating the average resident population of the town for the year. Of course no regard whatever is paid in this con- nection to the enormous crowds of visitors for health or plea.sure who come to the town. The estimated population for 1905 has been obtained by multiplying the number of inhabited houses (as found by the Overseers at the August-September enumeration for rate purposes) in each of the six wards of the town, by the Census factor shewing the average number of persons per inhabited house in each ward at the date of the Census.