[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C.

  • Knaresborough (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    POPU.,AT 101 . Wi - -T —• —— —- — The Registrar-General’s estimate of the resident population is 7?596. There are also in the Town a number'd evacuated persons and workers who have come to the district. The number of people living in Knaresborough is estimated at 8,5t)0. EVACUATSh^PERS ONS. Most of the unaccompanied children returned to their homes during the year, a small number remain. A fluctuating number of parents and children are billeted in ths Town usually about 230. Reception has been accompanied by a con- siderable amount of over-crowding and by the use of many houses w-.iieh are not in every respect fit for human habitation. Every effort ras been made to abate over- crowding without resort tc compulsory orders and much work has been done tc improve the houses in question. INEECTIOUS^EISIASES. Infectious disease has been very prevalent during the year. A considerable measles epidemic9 216 cases, occurred in the early months, the type was mild and only one death occurred. An epidemic of acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) followed* This was part of a larger epidemic -«*• V