[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Morpeth U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Morpeth (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Morpeth U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -1- SECTION A> STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OP THE AREA. The Registrar-General estimated that at niid-1966 the population had increased hy a further 200, to 14^150* Morpeth is a market tovai with a high proportion of the population employed in the retail ajid distrihutive trades, serving a \7ide country area, as v/ell as the tov/n itself. Many of the residents a,re, however, employed in the coal-mining industry and the recession in this is likely to affect employment in the toYvTi, although to a lesser extent than in neighbouring commimities. Efforts to introduce no?; industries have, so far, met with no great success and it is to be hoped they will achieve m.ore in the future. The town is growing, largely as a result of private enterprise house building and it would be regrettable if Morpeth were to become merely a ’dormitory’ tov/n for Newcastle and Tyneside, It is a pleasant place in v/hich to live and its beautiful park and many open spaces attract large numbers of visitors during the summer months, Carlisle Park, so easily seen from the main road, draws admiring comments, every year, from visitors from all parts of the country and from a,broad. Area in Acres ....*2,218 Rogistx'ar-General’s estimate of resident population mid-1966 ,14,150 One Penny Rate Produces...,€1807,12,91, Rateable Va,lue .£452,349 Number of inhabited houses (end of I966) •,,,,,««,e*,,.o,,,,,, 4,225 Total number of houses ov/ned by Local Author!tj^ ***,*,**,«**,, 1,49^