Friday 5 May 1916
Cllr Lightowler, the deputy
chairman of the Parks Committee,
performed the opening ceremony
for a new bowls green adjoining the
recreation ground in Stone Hall
Road, Eccleshill.
The green had cost £452, £11 less
than the estimate.
There had been a demand for a
green in Eccleshill for many years
but, with no room in the recreation
ground, it only became possible
when the piece of land came up for
sale.
‘The only condition imposed was
that there should be an open space
left between the boundary wall and
any building that might be erected.’
Eccleshill finally gets
its new bowling green
Windhill man dies
following a fall
An inquest was held at Saltaire
Hospital into the death of 77-year-
old Benjamin Ross of 7 Walker Place
Windhill who died in the hospital
the previous weekend.
The coroner heard that on 6 April Mr
Ross was found in Woodville Street,
Windhill where ‘as the result of a
fall he had fractured his right leg
and arm.
‘He was taken home and was
attended by Dr Moseley and was
later admitted to Saltaire Hospital.
Preliminary congestion supervened
and caused death.’
‘On Tuesday night, about half-past
ten, the Bradford Fire Brigade was
summoned to an outbreak of fire in
one of the wooden buildings at the
head of the shaft being sunk in
connection with the Esholt Tunnel.
‘The brigade, under Chief Officer
Scott, found on arrival that the fire
had got a firm hold but although
they were able to save little of the
building in which it originated they
were able to prevent it from
spreading to other wooden
erections in the immediate vicinity.
‘How the outbreak originated could
not be ascertained.’
Fire in Frizinghall
The Medical Officer of Health’s report carried some stark figures on infant
mortality.
Dr Foster said that of the 107 deaths in the last quarter, 53 males and 54
females, a quarter were children under five.
There were ten deaths of children under one year of age, equal to an infantile
mortality of 170 per 1,000 registered births.
Looking at the figures just for the month of March, the infant mortality was
equal to the deaths of 367 children under the year per 1,000 registered births.
Dr Foster said: “This mortality is an enormous contrast to the very low
mortality of 28 for the month of February.
“Of these children there were four in which no nursing or medical treatment
would have been of any avail to save the child, in the other six cases possibly
something might have been done.
Overall, there had been four cases of scarlet fever, 27 cases of diphtheria and
21 of measles during the quarter. Phthisis had been responsible for four deaths.
There were ten cases of tuberculosis notified.
No marked sanitary defect
The diphtheria cases could not be traced to any common source but were
spread fairly evenly over the whole township. No marked sanitary defect had
been discovered to account for it.
The health visitor reported that 17 homes had been visited in the last month and
17 children examined.
Twelve of the infants were naturally fed and five artificially fed whilst fourteen
were in average condition. Sixteen of the families used cow’s milk and one
used Swiss milk.
Five circulars had been sent out to those persons who had failed to notify the
Medical Officer of Health of births within 36 hours of their occurrence. Three
replies had been received pleading ignorance.
In an editorial, the newspaper said the figures called for attention, “especially
in view of the representation which the Local Government Board have made to
Shipley in regard to the appointment of a full-time health visitor.”
Large peak in infant deaths
A profile of Salvation Army leader
Mrs Bramwell Booth reads as though
it was written by someone in the
Salvation Army. An early spin
doctor?
Mrs Bramwell Booth, wife of
General Booth, whom the residents of
Shipley will have an opportunity of
hearing at the Salvation Army Hall on
Sunday next, does not owe her
position to birth or special favour but
to sheer desperate resolution and
fighting.
The daughter of a doctor, she gave up
her life to the Salvation Army in a
meeting conducted by the late Mrs
General Booth in the West End of
London and then offered herself for
service in France when the Army was
just commencing its work there.
Women and children
She was married to the General in the
year 1882 when the army was passing
through some of its most trying
struggles in London and two years
later she opened her first Rescue
Home.
The Army’s work amongst women
and children has been almost entirely
built up under her direction until it is
now carried on in a hundred centres
in which all who are reclaimed are
trained to earn their own living so
that, even whilst still inmates of the
homes and learners who have not in
many instances before known
anything of the simplest housework,
they produce two-thirds of the cost of
the home.
But Mrs Booth has now, of course, an
increased share in the direction of the
Army’s operations in other lands, She
has repeatedly visited various
European centres where the Army is
at work and carries on an enormous
correspondence.
That she has done this without in any
way turning aside from her home
duties has been demonstrated by the
fact that her five daughters and two
sons have grown up to become as
early as possible well educated
officers of the Army.
Remembering Mrs Booth’s material
responsibilities it is astounding that
she is able to render the Salvation
Army such a variety of service.
As a public speaker Mrs Booth is
most interesting; her preparation has
always to be done amongst the bustle
of her home or other work and yet in
all she says there is evidence of
profound thought as well as of the
purpose of making everything plain
as to a little child.
Mrs Bramwell Booth was due to speak at Shipley’s Salvation Army Hall
Leading through resolution and fighting
The Shipley and District Hairdressers’
Association have decided to advance
the price of men’s haircutting from 3d
to 4d; of beard trimming to a minimum
of 2d and shampooing to 4d. A
proposition to increase the price for
shaving from 1½d to 2d to be in line
with the Bradford Association’s prices
was defeated.
The following hours for closing have
been decided upon: Monday 8 p.m.;
Tuesday 8.30; Wednesday 1 p.m.;
Thursday 8.30; Friday and Saturday 2
o’clock. The changes of prices and
closing times come into operation on
Monday, May 8th
Haircuts go up to 4d
POULTRY
RHODE ISLAND Red Eggs,
Aylesbury Peking Duck Eggs, for
sitting, 3s 3d - All Alone Farm, Idle.
DUCK EGGS - First-cross Buff
Orpington Indian Runner Sittings,
3s 6d; eggs guaranteed fertile;
champion laying strain - Dibb, Otley
Rd, Opposite Post Office, Shipley
CHICKENS thrive amazingly on
Karswood Chicken Powder,
containing ground insects but no
irritant; packets 2d, 6d, 1s - Albion
Drug Stores Ltd, 1a Westgate, Shipley.
Mr S Philip Unwin of Shipley, on
Wednesday celebrated his 80th
birthday and he was the recipient of
many hearty congratulations.
Mr Unwin, who is a native of a small
village in Essex, comes of a family
of Liberals and Dissenters.
His residence in the North began
when he became apprenticed to the
Bradford trade with a Keighley firm.
For many years he has been in
business and has resided at Shipley.
An enthusiastic educationalist, he
was one of the original governors of
the Salt Schools and for six years
was chairman of the Shipley School
Board.
As a literary student, Mr Unwin has
taken a great deal of interest in the
Bronte Society and of the Yorkshire
Dialect Society, having been
chairman of both organisations.
Miss Hermione Unwin, who has
rendered excellent service as a
member of the Shipley Education
Committee, is the daughter of Mr
Unwin.
In appreciation of his services to the
Liberal Party in Bradford, Mr Wm
Rothenstein, one of Mr Unwin’s
friends, has been commissioned to
paint his portrait.
Portrait commissioned
of influential local
educationalist