Torquay, from Waldon Hill (1875)
Rock & Company
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | sB/TOR 7/1876/ROC |
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SC3274-3
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CD 49 DVD 7
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Thomson, Spencer. Torquay, past and present. London: J. & A. Churchill; Torquay: Seeley, 1877. p. 34.According to the last published returns of our medical officer of health, Mr. Rhind, the death-rate for the whole of the year 1874 was but 16.54 per 1,000, and this included the deaths of all those who, coming too late as invalids, came only to die. The death-rate for the six summer months was but a little over fourteen per 1,000, and even this low death-rate is scarcely a fair criterion, for a certain number of invalids remain on, either by choice or necessity, into the summer; and it is well known that a considerable proportion of the population of Torquay have made it their home, in the first instance, for health reasons. It is a question whether any other town of Britain of twenty-five thousand inhabitants can show as fair a sanitary balance-sheet. Lastly, epidemic there has been none for years, one visitation of scarlatina excepted. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Steel l.engr vign
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59x90mm
Note
Rock & Co. ; no. 4723. 8 Oct 1875
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From Waldon Hill
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Dates
1875