[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Hinckley U.D.C.

  • Hinckley (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Hinckley U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT To the Chairman and Members of the Hinckley Urban District Council. Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of presenting you with my second annual report respecting the Health and Sanitary Conditions cf the Hinckley Urban District during the year ending December 31st 1920. This report has again been drawn up on the lines suggested by a memorandum from the Ministry of Health. You will note with pleasure, that, in conformity with the rest of the Country, your birth rate has reached a high figure, your death rate a low one, and your infantile mortality a very low one, which compares very favourably with the general average. The County Medical Officer of Health asks for my report by April 30th. but has not as yet sent the'forms for the Sanitary Inspectors Report for 1920, therefore I am working on the forms sent for 1919. NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT POPULATION. The population at the time of the last census (1911) was 12.338, and the estimated population for 1920 is 14.700. The estimate by the Ministry of Health is 15.991, as in 1920 demobilisation ' id reached a stage at which it is felt that the distinction between birth-rate population and death-rate population,made during the period when a large part of the population was under arms, might in general be discontinued. This figure, 15.981, will be used when dealing with vital statistics. PHYSICAL FEATURES & GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE DISTRICT. The area of the district is 3705 acres. The Alteration of Boundaries Order 1920 by which part of the parish of Hinckley has been transferred to the parish of Harwell and part of the parish of Harwell transferred to the parish of Hinckley, results in a reduction of 24 acres in the area of the Hinckley Urban District. The height above sea-level in the lowest part (Hydes’ Lane) is 300 feet, the Borough being 370 feet, and Leicester Road opposite the Grammar School 450 feet above sea level. There are 3113 inhabited houses, and there are 17 miles of roads. These latter are unfortunately mostly in a very bad state of repair, two of the chief entrances to the town, viz: Coventry Road and Ashby Road, hardly being fit for ordinary traffic.