[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough.

  • Newport (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH DEPARTMENT, TOWN HALL, NEWPORT, July, 1906. To the Chairman and Members of the Sanitary Committee. Gentlemen, I beg' to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1905, the tenth since my appointment as your Medical Officer of Health. It is made in accordance with the Regulations of the Local Government Board, which prescribe with regard to the Medical Officer of Health :— That he shall prepare an annual report, to be made up to the end of December in each year, comprising a sumiuary of the action taken during the year for preventing the spread of disease, and an account of the sanitary state of his district generally at the end of the year. The report shall also contain an account of the inquiries which he has made as to conditions injurious to health existing in his district and of the proceedings in which he has taken part or advised under the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as such pro- ceedings relate to those conditions ; and also an account of the supervision exercised by him, or on his advice, for sanitary purposes over places and houses that the sanitary authority have power to regulate, with the nature and results of any proceedings which may have been required and taken in respect of the same during the year. It shall also record the action taken by him or on his advice, during the year, in regard to offensive trades, and to factories and work-shops. The report shall also contain tabular statements (on forms to be supplied by the Local Government Board, or to the like effect), of the sickness and mortality within the district, classified according to diseases, ages, and localities.’^ AREA. The Borough, as extended by the Act of 1899, has an area of 4,924 acres, or a little over 7f square miles. The density of the population .or number of persons per acre thus amounts to 14’8, but the population is by no means equally distributed, a considerable portion of the land being as yet agricultural land.