Dr. H. F. Parson's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of the Stourbridge registration district, and on the late prevalence of scarlet fever therein.

  • Parsons, H. F.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Dr. H. F. Parson's report to the local government board on the sanitary condition of the Stourbridge registration district, and on the late prevalence of scarlet fever therein. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. H. F. Parsons’s Report to the Local Government Board on the Sanitary Condition of the Stourbridge Registra- tion District, and on the late prevalence of Scarlet Fever therein. J. Netten Radcliffe, Assistant Medical Officer, 9th August, 1880. In 1873; after a severe epidemic of small-pox in tlio Stourbridge Union, an inspection of the several sanitary districts comprised in that Union was made for the Local Government Board by Dr. Ballard, who in his report recom- mended various measures for the improvement of the sanitary condition of the district. The present inspection, which was made in November and December 1879, was undertaken by order of the Board, partly with a view to ascertain how far these recommendations had been carried out by the several Sanitary Authorities concerned, and partly To inquire into the circumstances of a severe epidemic of scarlet fever which affected the Union in 1878 and the early part of 1879. The Stourbridge Union and Registration District is situated, in nearly equal proportions, in Worcestershire and in Staffordshire. Three Urban Sanitary Districts are included in it, viz., Stourbridge, which is under the jurisdiction of Improvement Commissioners elected under a local Act, and Brierley Hill and Quarry Bank, which are under Local Boards, the remainder of the Union being for sanitary purposes under the jurisdiction of the Board of Guardians as Rural Sanitary Authority. For these purposes the Guardians have formed their district into two divisions, a Worcestershire and a Staffordshire division : — divisions which do not in any respect coincide with those for registration purposes. The area, population, number of houses, and rateable value of tho several sanitary districts are shoAvn in the following table:— Census 1871. Rateable Value February 1879. Districts. Area iu Acres. Population. Houses. Stourbridge Rural district. Staffordshire Division (cstd.) 5.956 20,434 4,567 £ 65,478 Worcestershire Division - 7,746 26,197 5,449 73,556 Whole Rural district - 13,702 46,631 10,016 139,034 Stourbridge Urban district - 402 9,376 2,099 24,881 Brierley Hill Urban district - 1,027 (estd.) 985 11,047 2,356 34,400 Quarry Bank Urban district - 6,332 1,169 7,624 Whole Registration district - 16,116 73,386 15,640 205,939 For registration purposes the divisions of the district are as follows:— Sub-district. Population 1871. Halesowen - - - 13,376 Stourbridge - - 24,969 Kingswinford - - - 35,051 P 870. Wt. 16047. A