[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke R.D.C.

  • Basingstoke (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1912
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Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 The elevations vary considerably, being 680ft. above sea level at Farleigh and Ellisfield, and only 160ft. at Stratfieldsaye. There is a small amount of heath land at Pamber, but the rest of the District is agricultural and mostly arable. Calculating on an average yearly increase of 45, and allowing for errors, I estimate the population of the Rural District at the end of June, 1912, to be 12,420. Occupation. This is chiefly agricultural, but there is some brick making carried on in the District. The health of the Rural District during the last year has been, on the whole, extremely good. The amount of illness generally among the people having been very little. The chief trouble with which I had to contend last year was an epidemic of scarlet fever, which broke out among the children attending Silchester School. There were 22 cases notified from this District. These children live around Silchester and at Pamber Heath. The epidemic began about the end of May and extended on through June, July, and August, when it abated. At the end of November and in December four more cases were notified, but these were confined to two houses. A few cases I was able to isolate and deal with in their own houses owing to having sufficient room and not more than one other child in the house, but in most instances I