[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Skelton & Brotton U.D.C.

  • Skelton and Brotton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Skelton & Brotton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Sanitary Inspector, whose report follows mine, for his valuable help on all occasions. My administrative work is done from the Guisborough Area Health Office of the North Riding County Council and has been greatly facilitated throughout the year by the willing labour of the two clerical officers, Miss M. Xmeson and Miss J. Waite. Brotton, 1st May, 1951. I am, Madam and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, W. H. BUTCHER Medical Officer of Health. TABLE 1 Public Health Officers Whole Time Officers Guisborough Urban District Skelton & Brotton Urban District Loftus Urban District Medical Officer of Health also District Medical Officer No. 4 Area N.R.C.C. Dr. W. H. Butcher • Sanitary Inspectors Mr. J. A. Thompson* Mr. J. Pattison Mr. E. Hollis* Additional Sanitary Inspectors Mr. E. Ward *Also Surveyor of the District concerned SECTION I Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area Population The Registrar-General’s estimate of the population of the District in the mid-year 1950 is 13,000, as compared to an estimate of the population in the mid-year 1949 of 12,880. General Statistics I am indebted to the Financial Officer of the Council for the following figures :— 1. Area of the District in acres .... .... 15,309 2. No. of inhabited houses according to the rate books 3,899 3. Rateable Value .... .... .... £47,333 4. Sum represented by a Penny Rate .... .... £186 Social Conditions The District consists of an industrial belt comprising Skelton, New Skelton, North Skelton, Brotton and parts of Carlin How with a “ Y ” shaped prolongation to the southwards composed of Skelton Green, Boosbeck, Margrove Park, Charltons and Lingdale. These are situated amidst agricultural lands studded with farms ascending with swelling slopes to the moors which attain a height of nearly 1,000 feet. On the border of these, beyond the wooded valley of the Hagg Beck, is the community of