[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Denton U.D.C.

  • Denton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Denton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOCIAL CONDITIONS. The district is principally industrial. The chief industry is the Manufacture of Hats (felt and silk) and processes incidental to Hat making. There are also Engineering, Cotton Spinning, Printing, Electric Lamp and Accumulator Works, etc. Hatting, with its allied industries, finds employment for at least two-thirds of the working population of the district. The district is well planned, has four main highways, radiating from the centre of the district almost due north, south, east and west. There are 4^ miles of main roads, 14.15 miles of other roads paved or kept metalled, and over 14.46 miles of other roads not paved or kept metalled in the district. Houses in the district are mainly four and six-room type, built principally in rows. A number, however, are detached or semi-detached with garden front and rear. During the years 1933-1938, 2,742 houses have been erected; the majority of these are detached or semi-detached. Sanitation on the whole is good. 1 have no reason to suspect that any particular occupation in the district has contributed to ill-health amongst the employees. DEATHS. The deaths of persons serving with His Majesty’s Forces are now allocated to their area of residence in the same manner as civilian deaths. The Registrar General’s estimate of resident population mid-year 1938 was 21,700. The number of deaths are those registered during the current year and are corrected for inward and outward transfers.