[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Lichfield R.D.C.

  • Lichfield (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Lichfield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. Area (in acres). Registrar General’s estimate of resident population, mid-1946. ... ... ... ... ... ... Number of inhabited houses (end of 1946) according to Rate Books . Rateable Value, 1st October, 1946 . Sum represented by a penny rate . 83,715 33,790 8,760 £175,388 £690 The Lichfield Rural District, in the County of Stafford, surrounds completely the ancient city of Lichfield. On its East and South sides it is bounded by the Counties of Derby, Leicester and Warwick. The North and West sides are bounded by the County of Stafford comprising the following county districts in order from the North : Tutbury Rural, Uttoxeter Rural, Stafford Rural, Rugeley Urban, Cannock Urban, Brownhills Urban and Aldridge Urban. The district is in the main devoted to agriculture. A considerable portion forms part of the valley of the Trent and its large tributary, the Tame. Along the river valley the land is flat— between the 200 and 300 contour level—-rising on the West side to an altitude of nearly 700 feet in the parish of Brindley Heath, part of Cannock Chase. The Western section contains coal seams and there is a considerable mining population. There are pottery works in Armitage and tape mills in Fazeley. The parish of Shenstone is largely residential, but several industrial concerns have recently become established there. The soil on the whole is light and porous with a subsoil of gravel or marl and a few islands of clay. In the Cannock Chase district there is a thin layer of peat lying upon gravel and sand, a relic of the old Cannock Chase forest.