[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1895
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Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH. (Pursuant to the Regulations of the Local Government Board). TO THE URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. Population (Census 1801) 20,2(37. Area in Acres, 4/370. Houses, 4,580. Average number of people to a house, about 5. Parishes, (3. January 1st, 18S6. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,— In conformity with the regulations of the Local Government Board, I present to yon a Report of the Health of the City and County of Hereford for the year ending December 31st, 1895. It has been my pleasure, not only in my Annual Reports for the last three or four years, but more or less in all my reports tor the past twenty-one years, to comment upon the steadily increasing sanitary advantages which this City enjoys from the arrangements made, and the improvements effected, for the health of its people. These reports have been given to your City Corporation, and through them to the inhabitants of the City, and in later years also to the County Council of 1 leretord shire ; and it is not necessary that 1 should here dw ell upon the progress that has been made. One of the principal deficiencies to which it was my duty to cal! attention in those former reports was supplied when your Corporation took the step of providing a Hospital for Infectious Diseases. The facilities