[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough.

  • Torquay (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Torquay Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Borough Sanatorium for infectious diseases is situated on the Newton Abbot Road, just outside the Borough boundary, in the Newton Abbot Rural District. The Corporation possess another Isolation Hospital, also situated outside the boundary, about half a mile from the village of Cockington. Physical Features and General Character of the District. These are of a highly diversified character, especially the central portions forming the Torquay promontory. In this district the two principal heights are the Warberry, 448 feet, and the Lincombe Hills, 372 feet, forming long ridges running N.E. and S.W., which are composed of the Lower Devonian grits and slates. The lesser heights, such as the Braddons, Waldon Park, and Chapel Hill, are formed of Middle Devonian limestone, which rests above the grits and slates mentioned. On each side of this central area, viz., at St. Mary-Church and Chelston, rocks higher in the Geological scale for the most part prevail. These rocks belong to the Permian formation, and consist of beds of Breccia—a kind of conglomerate—and sand¬ stones of a deep red colour, owing to the presence of peroxide of iron. There is very little clay in any portion of the area, and what does occur is of the nature of marl, and is confined to the lower levels of certain valleys or depressions, so that rain is not detained on the surface, as it rapidly disappears through these rather pervious rocks and soils. METEOROLOGY. Full details of the Meteorology of the Borough will be seen in the appended Annual report of Mr. F. March, F.R. Met. Soc., M.P.S., Borough Meteorologist; but the following resum^ of the climatic conditions may be of interest:— Highest Maximum Temperature 78o,0 Lowest Minimum ,, 28o,0 Mean Maximum 56°-5 Mean Minimum 46°*3 Mean of Maximum and Minimum 510,4 Difference from average + 0°‘3 No. of days on which rain fell 171 Total fall in inches 33’73 No. of hours of bright sunshine 1735• 7