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

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

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    more than enough for the full energies of one Inspector in each district. In the West Ward, with its upper-class population and large houses, drainage work and the niceities of house sani-^ tation form a large part of the duties. In the East Ward the greatest opportunities occur for doing work thoroughly which will conduce to the saving of life and illness. Small and full houses, small shops, etc., require much attention, and a large birth-rate with a large population of children make the Ward the most important from a sanitary point of view. In St. Mary’s Ward there is a variety of work, there being both an artizan district and a district of large houses. The Inspector for St. Mary’s Ward has also to attend to the Meteorology of the Borough. The Vital Statistics in this Report are given as a whole, and as regards the old division into Wards. The principal institutions, from a sanitary point of view, are the following :— The Borough Infectious Diseases Hospital in St. Mary’s Ward. The Isolation Cottage in the East Ward. The Union Workhouse and Infirmary in St. Mary’s Ward. All Saints’ Convalescent Home in the West Ward. The Princess Alice Hospital in St. Mary’s Ward. Other institutions are the Upwick Vale Home, the Homoeopathic Cottage Hospital, and Convalescent Home. Just beyond the Borough boundary in the East is the Langney Hospital for Small Pox, which, although outside the Borough, belongs to the Eastbourne Sanitary Authority. Site, Soil, etc. The Borough is situate on and at the foot of a slope running chiefly from the Downs on the West to the level ground at the East end of the South Downs.