[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Godstone R.D.C.

  • Godstone (Surrey, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1895
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Godstone R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/42 (page 1)
    OF THE Medical Officer of Health OF THE GODSTONE BUBAL DISTBICT COUNCIL, 1895. To the Chairman and Members of the Godstone Rural District Council. Gentlemen,— I have the honour to present my report for the past year Introduction, relative to the health of the District which is under iny superin- tendence as your Medical Officer of Health, and the conditions affecting the same, together with the means that have been adopted for improving them. I would first mention that the report will have reference to a larger area than that dealt with in previous years, inasmuch as the Parish of Lingfield has been added to the District over which you have jurisdiction, by order of the County Council, made December 28th, 1894, as from the appointed day, after enquiry duly held, and which has materially enlarged the same, whereby it now consists of fifteen Parishes containing a Population in the aggregate of 28,044 persons of all ages, and extends over an area of 53,183 acres. Commencing with the liainfall :—The nature of the Rainfall, &c, weather, which is so frequently a topic of conversation with all of us, has its influence upon health, and, by its variability or otherwise, so affects the climate of a district as to favour the development and consequent prevalence of certain kinds of diseases, and is, therefore, deserving of consideration. Extremes of heat and cold are factors of that nature, and these were characteristic features of the past year, the latter part of January and most of February being occupied by continuous frost, and shewing a mean temperature of 83 and 29 respec- tively ; whereas June, July, August and September were of the