[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough.

  • Torquay (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BOROUGH, The Borough of Torquay is formed by the civil parishes o! St. Mary-Church aud Tormoham. The total area of the Borough is 3,858 acres. It is divided into nine wards, which, with their populations, according to the 1901 census, are as follows :—- Torre » • • 3851 Waldon t • • 3576 Upton • • 4339 Ellacombe • • • 5911 Strand 3129 Torwood • * . 3644 St. Mary-Chnrch . . . 3312 Babbacombe . * . 3264 Chelston ... 2599 The Borough ... 33,625 For the purpose of Sanitary administration, the Borough is divided into three districts, in each of which a Sanitary Inspector has full charge, under the Medical Officer of Health. No. 1 District.—The whole of the Chelston, Torre, and Waldon Wards, that portion of the Strand Ward on the west side of Fleet Street, and that portion of Upton Ward on the west side of Union Street No. 2 District.—The whole of the Torwood Ward, that portion of the Strand Ward on the east side of Fleet Street, the whole of Ellacombe Ward, and that portion of the Upton Ward on the east side of Union Street. No. 3 District.—The whole of the St. Mary-Church and Babbacombe Wards. The principal public Institutions from a Sanitary point of view are— The Torbay Hospital in the Upton Ward. The Western Hospital for Consumptives, and the Rosehill Children’s Hospital in the Strand Ward. Smyrna, or the Mildmay Consumptive Home, in the Ellacombe Ward. St. Barnabas’, St. Luke’s, St. Raphael’s, and Erith House, all Consumptive Homes, situated in the Torwood Ward,