[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Sandwich Borough.

  • Sandwich (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Sandwich Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GEOLOGICAL PARTICULARS. Immediately underlying the surface formations is a continuous thick bed of chalk imposed on a thinner bed of gault clay under which is a bed of lower greensands of varying thickness. This overlies a layer of wealden formation imposed on a massive wedge of jurassic rocks. It is possible that the jurassic rocks may not actually extend below the Borough area. The next lower formation is a bowl-shaped block of the coal measures (transitional and middle); the Borough area is situated over the thinning north-eastern edge of this deposit. The coal measures rest on carboniferous limestone. The surface formation is mainly alluvium of varying thickness, clayey in nature with patches of sand and shingle. The major portion of the area is low-lying, but, in the Southern portion the land is slightly more elevated. The whole of the Northern part is low-lying marsh-land on which during the War the so-called Port of Richborough was constructed. HOUSING CONDITIONS, YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1937. General Statistics. Area (acres), 2,137. Population (Census, 1931, 3,687), estimated 1937 3,899. Number of inhabited houses (end of 1937) according to Rate Books, 1,133. Rateable value, £25,867 : 0 : 0. Sum represented by a penny rate, £99 : 16 : 11. 1.—Unfit Dwelling-houses. Inspection: (1) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts), 105. Number of inspections made for the purpose, 178. (2) Number of dwelling-houses which were inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925, 84. Number of inspections made for the purpose, 137. (3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous, or injurious to health, as to be unfit for human habitation, 2.