[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Inquiries respecting Water Supply were not sent. This was a matter of serious inconvenience to tlie County Council, for I have more than once been asked for an opinion on schemes for water supply, and, by the custom which prevailed, was practically debarred from watching the progress of events when such schemes w'ere laid before the Inspectors of the Local Government Board. I, therefore, communicated with the Clerk of the County Council on the matter, and he wwote to the Local Government Board asking that the County Council might have notice of all such Inquiries in the same manner as for Inquiries in respect of Sewerage and Sew^age Disposal. I am glad to be able to i*ecord that the Local Goveriiment Board replied at once consenting to do this. In consequence of this concession, I was enabled to attend important Inquiries as to Water Supply at Pytchley, Wellingborough, and Denton, at the first of which places I had some time since made a special inquiry for and report on the subject to the Public Health Committee of the County Council. A communication was received during the year from the Royal Statistical Society as to the advisability of an intermediate census of the population being taken in the year 1906. This is a matter of very considerable importance. The regular Decennial Census ordinarily requires information showing— (a) The name, age, sex, profession or occupation, condition as to marriage, relation to the head of the family, birthplace, and (where the person w^as born abroad), nationality of every living person in each household; (b) Whether any person is blind, or deaf and dumb, imbecile or lunatic ; (r) If tlie occupier has less than five rooms, the number of rooms occupied by him ; and (d) In the case of Wales, or the County of Monmouth, whether any person speaks English only, or Welsh only, or both English and Welsh. On the other hand, the intermediate or quinquennial census is asked for merely as a sort of stock-taking of the population. The