Medical Officer’s Report

Mr. Russell McLean, Medical Officer for the Doncaster Rural District, has issued an able and exhaustive report on the health of the district during the last year. The district comprises 45 parishes, with an area of 91,704 acres, 6,265 houses, and an estimated population of 29,055. The lowest sea level is Fenwick, 21.6 ft., and the highest Clifton, near Conisboro’, 425.8 ft.

In the mining centres of Conisboro’, Denaby, and Thurnscoe, the population is increasing very rapidly, but the purely agricultural sub-districts of Bawtry and Tickhill show a slow but steady decrease in the resident population.

The highest birth and death-rates were at Denaby, the birth-rate being 52.4 and the death-rate 25.9, the lowest death-rate, 8.3, being at Tickhill. The infantile mortality was highest at the two mining districts of Denaby and Thurnscoe, being 264 and 260 respectively.