[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1895
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Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ho tbe /Ifoagor Hlbermeit ant) Burgesses of tbe Borough of Blackpool. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you my Fifth Annual Report on the Health of Blackpool, containing an account of the work done in the Sanitary Department during the year 1895. The death-rate, as was to be expected after the exceptionally low death-rate and favourable climatic conditions of the previous year, was higher than in 1894, and slightly exceeded the average for the five years 1891—95. A number of persons in delicate health who survived through the favourable year of 1894, died under the more unfavourable conditions of 1895. This behaviour of the death-rates was noticeable for both England and Wales and the large towns. The duties of the Sanitary Officials in a rapidly growing town like Blackpool, visited as it is by crowds of visitors, are peculiarly arduous, and I have to thank them for the zeal and loyalty with which they have assisted me in my efforts to attain to a perfect system of sanitary administration. In the body of the Report many matters of importance are referred to, which I have no doubt will receive that attention from you which they merit. I am, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, A. JASPER ANDERSON, Medical. Officer of Health, -Public Health Office, Blackpool, February, 1896.