[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. GENERAL STATISTICS. Area (in acres) Number of separate private dwellings occupied (Census 1951) Number of private households (1951) Average number of persons per house (1951) Population (Census 1931) Urban Districts 182,279 — Rural Districts 148,822 — Population (Census 1951) .. Urban Districts 204,416 — Rural Districts 173,793 — Population (estimated to mid year 1958) Urban Districts 209,200 — Rural Districts 178,400 Rateable Value (1st April, 1959) Estimated product of a penny rate 1,354,657 99,836 102,704 3-37 331,101 378,209 387,600 £4,924,249 £19,495 Area. The North Riding of Yorkshire is the third county in order of size in England, its acreage being 1,354,657. Its geographical character varies from the populous industrial district adjacent to the County Borough of Middlesbrough to the sparsely populated dales and moorland districts ; there are also smaller aggregations of population in inland districts and on the seaboard which forms the eastern boundary of the Riding : north of York too, there are heavily populated parishes in the Flaxton Rural District. The administrative county includes four municipal boroughs (Redcar, Richmond, Scarborough and Thornaby-on-Tees), ten urban districts and twenty rural districts. In nearly its whole length, the northern boundary is formed by the river Tees, separating the Riding from the County of Durham ; the eastern boundary is the seaboard ; on its southern boundary the Riding abuts on the East and West Ridings and the City of York ; on its western side is the Pennine Chain and the Lake District. Running almost north and south from Cleveland to the Vale of York is a range of hills known in its first portion as the Cleveland Hills and merging into the Hambleton Hills. In the western portion there are three main dales—these are Teesdale, Swaledale and Wensleydale proceeding from north to south.