[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough and Port.

  • Plymouth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Plymouth Borough and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    General Sanitary Condition of the County Borough of Plymouth at the end of the - year 1903. Borough of Plymouth — Area — Population -- Boundaries — Rateable Value—Inhabited Houses. The area of the Borough is 2,370 acres, which includes the island of St. Nicholas, in the parish of St. Andrew. Population calculated to the middle of 1903, 112,022. The Borough consists of two parishes, St. Andrew and Charles, for Regis¬ tration purposes. This year I have adopted the boundaries of the fourteen Wards, into which the Borough is divided, for the purposes of these Statistics, viz. :—St. Peter’s, Alillbay, Hoe, St. Andrew’s, Vintry, Frankfort, Drake’s, Sutton, Charles, Greenbank, Mutley, Compton, Laira, and Friary. The limits of the Urban Sanitary District are co-terminus with those of the County Borough of Plymouth. The district is bounded on the north by the parishes of Egg Buckland and Stoke Damerel, on the west by the township of Stonehouse, on the south by the waters of the Sound, on the east by the parish of Egg Buckland. The rateable value of the Borough is £505,290. The number of houses in the Borough is 14,440 ; 270 have been built during the year.