[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Argyll County Council.

  • Argyllshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Argyll County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    12 Division Registration District Total number of Houses Houses without piped water (a) Houses without w.c. (b) Percer (a) itages (b) COWAL Strachur ll*8 13 15 9% 10/ Strathlachlan 62 13 15 21/ 21*/ Kilmorich 1*9 15 19 30/ CO c~\ Lochgoilhead 17U 5 7 3% h% Kilmun 1*1*7 23 28 9% 6% Dunoon / 799 1* 18 2% Inverchaolain 30 l 1 3% 3% Colintraive 51 8 9 16/ 18% Kilmodan ~W 11 17 16% 21*/ Kilfinan h!9 35 1*5 8% 10/ Total houses 221*8 128 171* 9% 8/ ISLAY etc. Portnahaven 100 73 79 73% 79/ Kilchoman 223 79 92 39% 1*1/ Kilmeny l$h 63 71 1*0/ 1*6/ Bowmore 355 93 109 26% 30/ Kildalton & Oa 329 61* ~W 19% 26/ Jura 76 22 33 30% 1*3/ CoIonsay & Oronsay 67 10 12 is* 18/ Total houses 1301* 1*01* 1*83 31/ 37/ MULL Kilninian 5c Kilmore 99 1*1 1*6 1*1/ 1*6/ Tobermory <f> 11* 1 2 7% H*/ Salen 130 18 26 lh% 20/ Ulva 30 13 15 1*3/ 5o/ Torosay 56 17 21 30% 37/ Kinlochspelvie 29 5 9 17% 31/ Kilfinichen & Kilvickeon 230 119 127 52% 55/ Total houses 588 211* 21*6 36% va C\J -=t TIREE 382 221 265 55% 70% COLL 70 20 21 29% 30% ^ Burgh figures not included. These figures are not impressive. There is no lack of Acts of Parliament enabling Local Authorities, in various ways, to promote the abolition, or at least amelioration, of such disagreeable, if not positively unhealthy, conditions. And in 1953-1* yet another Act, in part directed to this end, is being added to the Statute Book, If improvement in this field is desirable - and surely it is - on grounds of health, ought we not, perhaps, to try to do rather more than we are doing, difficult though it may be? We may look with pride at the unusually high proportion of very old people in this County, and we may notice, with some gratification, that our freedom from epidemics compares satisfactorily with the records of other areas, and we may think that the bad effect of poor housing on health is perhaps liable to be exaggerated. But we must also remember that our infant mortality rate, and our tuberculosis rate, has not compared so favourably with those of other rural areas. I admit that an attempt to prove a direct correlation between these two rates and our bad housing, besides being exceedingly laborious, would also probably be unsuccessful. In human bionomics complicating factors, often/