[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Bristol.

  • Bristol (England). Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Bristol. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS. Population. Area in Acres Population (.Estimated) Rateable Value City of Bristol, 1897 Additions of 1897 Additions of 1904 City of Bristol, 1915 4,661 6,756 5,347 17,460 23L242 85,800 13,443 352,859 £ 8. d. 1,153,311 0 0 246,815 0 0 69,560 0 0 1,880,384 16 0 This table shows that the City covers not quite four times the acreag’e which it covered, in 1897, and is more populous by 120,617 persons. The City Medical Officer of Health has inherited the duties and responsibilities of the Medical Officers of Health of this added City; considerable economy has thus been effected in the medical administration, as the salaries of the various medical officers have lapsed. There is no salaried Assistant Medical Officer to help in either City or Port work, but the occasional Medical assistance required in emergency, is paid for by fees for wmrk done. The various extensions have resulted in the displacement of five part-time Medical Officers of Health, whose districts have been absorbed. The districts included three Local Board Districts, each in charge of a part-time Medical Officer of Health,' and parts of two Rural areas. The additional work thus devolving on the Medical Officer of Health, includes :— Additions to City Work. ClTV.—In 1897 the area of the City was increased by ^>75^ acres, and the population by 85,800 persons. In 1904 the area was further increased by an addition 5>347 acres, and the population by 13,443.