[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.

  • West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There are npwards of 300 supplies of water to glass houses in the two townships. There has been a considerable increase of the area under glass from which growers annually produce quantities of spring flowers, followed by tomatoes and cucumbers. Market gardening is gradually becoming the main industry of this part of the District. It may be of interest to note tliat it is fifty-seven years since the industry commenced with the erection of the first glass house. Poultry farming is now a thriving industry in these parishes, and there is a small brickworks at Hesketh Bank. Work re-started during 1934 at the Tarleton Weaving Mill. There are approximately 186 operatives, of whom 114 are resident in the Bural District. Farming and market gardening are carried on to some extent in Banks, but the majority of the workpeople of the village are employed outside the district. The fishing industry now carried on is prac¬ tically nil, but the establishment during |T935 of the new mussel purification tank at Lytham has provided employment for a few Banks fishermen. The following table and information regarding boundaries lias been supplied by the Local Office of the ^Ministry of laibour, and is re-printed to show the state of unemployment during the year. Unemployed persons from tiie Bural District are included in tlie figures for each Local Office.