Dr. Richard J. Reece's report to the Local Government Board upon the general sanitary circumstances of the borough of Chelmsford.

  • Reece, Richard J.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Dr. Richard J. Reece's report to the Local Government Board upon the general sanitary circumstances of the borough of Chelmsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Dr. Richard J. Reece’s Report to the Local Government Board upon the General Sanitary Circumstances of the Borough of Chelmsford. R. Thorne Thorne, Medical Officer, November 28th, 1896. The Borough of Chelmsford was incorporated on the 9th November 1888. Previous to this time the administration had been vested in a Local Board first formed in 1850. The Borough, which covers an area of 2,309 acres, is partly rural and partly urban in character. It had at the census in 1891 a population of 11,008 persons. The population for the corresponding area in 1881 was 9,793 persons; figures which show an increase of 1,215 persons in ten years, and it is probable that the ratio of increase observed in the ten years 1881-91 has been maintained. The number of inhabited houses increased between 1881 and 1891 from 2,009 to 2,312, and building is still beino carried on. - a The Borough is situate in the Registration District and Sub-district of Chelmsford. The rateable value is 39,427b For administrative purposes the Borough is divided into a North Ward and. a South Ward, the population of the Borough being ncarlv equally divided between the two.wards. * J Industries, &fc., of the District.—Chelmsford is a market town, and the centre of an agricultural district. There are several large business premises within the Borough, notably the Arc Works, of the firm of Crompton & Co., Electrical Engineers, where some 500 workmen are employed, and where the electricity for lighting the town is generated. Amongst other trades are to be found agricultural implement makers, fellmongers, tanners, and brickmakers. Within the Borough, and in the districts immediately adjoining it, villa residences are becoming numerous, inhabited for the most part by merchants and professional men whose daily work is in London, Chelmsford being easy of access by rail from the metropolis. Geology and Topography .—The deep geological formation underlying the whole district is the “ London clay. ’ This clay lies at various depths below the surface, from bo at the Corporation Yard, near the centre of the LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY EYRE A.ND SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTT. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE. East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C.; or JOHN MENZIES & Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limited, 104, Grafton Street, Dublin, No. 112. 1896. Price Sixpence.