[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1930
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    Office of the County Medical Officer of Health, 16, Northgate Street, Warwick, September 9th, 1931. To the Warwickshire County Council. My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present my Twelfth Annual Report on the health of the Admin¬ istrative County of Warwick, for the year ending December 31st, 1930. The form of the Report will differ somewhat from previous publications, since a request has been made that for the year 1930 it should follow the lines indicated in Circular 1119 of the Ministry of Health, and should introduce for the first time a reference to those services transferred to the County Council under the Local Government Act, 1929. STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. AREA. The area of the County in 1930 was 541,872 acres, or approximately 846 square miles. This record is of interest since the alteration in County Boundaries occasioned under Sec. 46 of the Local Government Act will influence this figure. The area according to the 1931 Census is now 560,702 acres. POPULATION. All statistics bearing upon population have been compiled in this Report from the Registrar General’s estimate of 1929—357,140—since the estimate for 1930 cannot be computed without reference to the Census figures of 1931. The population of the Urban Districts was 174,400, and of the Rural Districts 182,740. In the year 1928 a reduction of approximately 15,000 was effected through the transfer of territory to the City of Coventry under the Coventry Corporation Extension Act, 1928, but the 1931 Census now gives the population of the Administrative County as 365,323, a percentage in¬ crease of 11-9 over the 1921 figures, or an actual increase of 38,857. SOCIAL CONDITIONS.—Broadly speaking the County of Warwick can be regarded as industrial in the North and agricultural in the South, the chief industry in the extreme North being coal mining, and in the Borough of Nuneaton Textile industries, Brick and Tile Works, but particularly coal mining. The County Borough of Coventry is situated in the centre of the Administrative County, its industries, chiefly the motor and cycle trade, artificial silk and general engineering, employing large numbers of the Rural population in the immediate neighbourhood of the City. The Urban District of Rugby, situated in the South-East of the County, has as its chief industry Engineering, but in addition is largely scholastic. The principal residential towns are Sutton Coldfield in the North, adjoining the City of Birmingham, Leamington Spa in the centre, adjoining Warwick the County town, and Stratford-on-Avon in the South-West. The remainder of the County is largely Rural in character, with agriculture as the chief industry. There is no occupation in Warwickshire that can be regarded as in any way particularly detrimental to health, this being borne out by reference to statistics, which compare favour¬ ably with those of the country generally.