Dr. Page's report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary state of the adjoining urban sanitary districts of Clee-with-Weelsby and Great Grimsby, with reference to the prevalence of enteric fever there / [David Page].

  • Page, David, M.D.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Dr. Page's report to the Local Government Board on the sanitary state of the adjoining urban sanitary districts of Clee-with-Weelsby and Great Grimsby, with reference to the prevalence of enteric fever there / [David Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Page’s Report to the Local Government Board on the Sanitary State of the adjoining Urban Sanitary Districts of Clee-with-Weelsby and Great Grimsby, with reference to the Prevalence of Enteric Fever there. George Buchanan, Medical Department, July 3rd, 1888. This inquiry was ordered by the Board in view of an excessive mortality from typhoid fever shown in recent returns, made to the Registrar-General, to have prevailed in the Great Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Union. I visited the district, as directed, on April 17 and following days. In 1881 Dr. Parsons inspected the Borough of Grimsby, and in his report to the Board he refers to the growth of the town as extending beyond the municipal limit into the Local Board District of Clee-with-Weelsby. During the half-dozen years that have since elapsed this process has been going on apace, and at the present time Clee-with-Weelsby, or, as it is generally spoken of, New Clee, forms, for ail save purely administrative purposes, a considerable part of the town of Great Grimsby. New Clee : Urban Sanitary District. This district lies on the south-east of the borough proper, and comprises an area of 2,557 acres. In 1881 the population was 11,620, living in 2,036 houses. It is now estimated at upwards of 17,000, or nearly half the population of the adjacent borough of Grimsby, from which it is an out¬ growth. The number of inhabited houses is 3,462. Topographically the site of the district is flat, and abuts on the foreshores of the Humber, between Grimsby Docks and the popular seaside resort of Cleethorpes. The whole area is but little above high water of spring tides, and geologically consists of beds of recent deposits, estuarian warp or mud on the surface and per¬ meable sands and stiff clay below, overlying the Chalk at a depth of 80 or 90 feet. This formation is seen cropping up inland, in the west, along the Lincolnshire Wolds. In the beds of recent deposit upon which the district stands, water is said to be commonly met with at a depth of some 5 or 6 feet from the surface. The population of New Clee is almost wholly employed in the fishing industry and subsidiary trades of the Port of Grimsby. Some of the older property in this district, as in Charles and Humber Streets (one side of the latter street being within the borough of Grimsby) is very closely built, with small confined backyards, rendering impossible free New Clee. House accommoda¬ tion. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. A ud to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.O. ADAM and CHARLES BLACK, 6, North Bridge, Edinburgh : or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. , or No. 28. A 54468. 200.—7/88. Wt, 4308. 1888. Price Sixpence.