[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/86 (page 11)
    REPORT. A.-NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT. (i) PHYSICAL FEATURES AND GENERAL CHAR- ACTER OF THE DISTRICT.—The area of the Borough previous to November 9th, 1910, was 1,216 acres, 18 of which are covered by water; that of the Extended Borough is 2,643 acres. The greater part of the town is built upon a tongue of land projecting in an easterly direction from the high land of Newbold and Dunston into the valley of the Rother, the re- mainder being situate to the north, east and south of tihis in the valleys of the Hipper and the Rother, which join here after the Rother has received the Muster brook. The joint stream discharges into the disused Chesterfield and Stockwith Canal, which overflows in time of heavy rain into its former course, which contains little but the effluent from the sewage disposal works at other times. The geological formation is clay overlying the trias sand- stone of the coal measures, but to the north the surface is largely composed of stones lying in alluvial soil, while most of the West Ward stands on alluvial deposits.