[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C.

  • Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). Rural District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Factories and Workshops. The condition of the slaughter houses continues satisfactory and I failed to find any neglect in the matter of leaving offal on manure heaps during the year. The solitary workshop in your district, a blacksmith’s smithy, has been duly inspected. A new workshop which has just been erected near Staincross Station has not yet been opened, but will probably come on the list for the current 5'ear. I have not made the comparative table of death-rates and birth-rates this year, because at the date of writing this Report the only figures to hand were the death-rate and birth-rate for the Country as a whole. Your birth-rate of 32‘38 is 8 higher than that of England and Wales and your death-rate of 14'22 only fractionally higher that that of England and Wales. Being a mixed district in the sense that Carlton approximates to town conditions, while the rest of your district is purely Rural, you can hardly expect your death-rate to be quite so low as that for Rural England and Wales. On the other hand, with your higher birth-rate, a larger proportion of your population is at a d ingerous age, than in the ordinary Rural district, and that alone, as in Barnsley itself, is a factor in your higher death-rate. In conclusion, sanitary progress is certainly made year b}^ year, decidedl}^ more so than might appear on the face of it from these annual Reports. Eor it is one of my functions to be a fault finder, and to point out to you the conditions which, in my opinion, ought to be remedied, and therefore these defects bulk much more largel}^ in my annual Reports than improvements, which are, as a matter of fact, being constantly made. It is only fair that this should be stated at the beginning of the new era, when increasing pressure is likely to be put on all Rural Councils to hasten the progress of sanitary reform. I am. Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, F. J. SADLER, M.A., M.B., D.P.H., Oxon. Barnsley, February, igii, Medical Officer of Health,