[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxendon R.D.C.

  • Oxendon (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxendon R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oxeiidon Rural District. MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH’S ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1909. Gentlemen, I herewith have the honour to present to you my Annual Report together with the various tables of statistics and the Report of the Sanitary Inspector. The Area of the District is 32,991 acres and comprises 19 parishes. The total population in the 1901 census numbered 4,202 ; during recent years the birth rate has exceeded the death rate, so that the population may be roughly estimated at the present time to be about 100 persons more. The population of the various parishes varies from 26, in Thorpe Lubenham, to 757, in YVelford, the majority being under 200 inhabitants. The occupation of the inhabitants is mainly connected with grazing and agriculture. There are no factories in the District, and no trades or occupations likely to be detrimental to the health of the inhabitants. The House Accommodation is, on the whole, adequate and cleanly. Only one house has been built during the year, viz., at Stoke Albany. A few material improvements have been carried out in the sewage arrangements of the District. The method of dealing with the sewage is, in the main, by means of settling tanks ; these • are inspected frequently by the sanitary inspector, and are cleaned out monthly or quarterly as required. The gratings and drains are disinfected each week, and where necessary the sewers are flushed. At Clipston two additional ventilating shafts have been fixed to the sewers. At Sibbertoft the old and inadequate sewer tanks have been abolished, and an entirely fresh system of tanks