Dr. F. St. George Mivart's report to the Local Government Board on the general sanitary circumstances and administration of Biggleswade rural district, and on the prevalence of diphtheria and enteric fever therein / [F. St. George Mivart].

  • Mivart, F. St. George.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Dr. F. St. George Mivart's report to the Local Government Board on the general sanitary circumstances and administration of Biggleswade rural district, and on the prevalence of diphtheria and enteric fever therein / [F. St. George Mivart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Dr. F. St. George Mivart’s Report to the Local Government Board on the General Sanitary Circumstances and Ad¬ ministration of the Biggleswade Rural District, and on the prevalence of Diphtheria and Enteric Fever therein. Richd. Thorne Thorne, Medical Officer, November 28th, 1899. A succession of local complaints has lately drawn, in a special manner, the attention of the Board to the Biggleswade Rural District, in certain parts of which diphtheria has for some years past been from time to time unduly prevalent. During the first quarter of the present year the local Medical Officer of Health has had to furnish no less than three special reports upon outbreaks of illness in various parts of his district, viz., upon diphtheria at Sandy, upon the same disease at Langford, and upon enteric fever at Old Warden. In addition to the various reports thus furnished, the Bedfordshire County Council, in consequence of representations made to them by certain residents of the village of Sandy, instructed then- own Medical Officer of Health to prepare for them a further report on the outbreak of diphtheria in that locality. As a result of the state of things thus, and in other ways, brought to light, the Board instructed me to enquire into the general sanitary circumstances and administration of the whole of the Biggleswade Rural District. I accordingly visited the District at the close of the month of May and on many subsequent occasions. The Biggleswade Rural District occupies the extreme south-east of the County of Bedfordshire. Until 1892 the town of Biggleswade—since then included in a separate urban district—formed part of the rural district. The Biggleswade Urban and Rural Districts are coterminous in area with the Biggleswade Registration District and with the Biggleswade Union. For registration purposes the rural district is divided between the Registration Sub- Districts of Potton and Biggleswade. The area of the Rural District is 53,628 acres ; its population at the census of 1891 was 21,864 ; its rateable value is stated as £114,288. It is bounded on the north-east and east by the Caxton and Royston Unions respectively ; on the south-east and south by the Hitchin Union ; on the south-west by the Ampthill Union ; on the west and north-west by the Bedford Union ; and on the north by the St. Neot’s Union. In Table I, I have recorded the facts as to area, population, and rateable value of each of the parishes forming the district, and in the last column I have indicated the precise page of the report whereon each locality finds mention. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, By DARLING & SON, Ltd., 1-3, Great St. Thomas Apostle, E.C. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C., and 32, Abingdon Street Westminster, S.W.; or JOHN MENZIES & Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limited, 104, Grapton Street, Dublin. No. 146. 3278—373—7/99 Wt 7937 D & S 1899. Price Ninepence. 19 ■SQB.OK*.-.**-. '<i_ -+Mttra jSTELLCCL it; LIBRARY AeneraJ Cad5erti»jaii / ! S . . %