25 YEARS AGO

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THE change in weekend habits is having its effect on the use made of the library service. The Chief Librarian, Mr Harold Hamer, reported to a meeting of the Bolton Libraries Committee yesterday that the demand for adult and juvenile fiction for February was 12,000 volumes down on last year's figures. Sunday cinemas now absorbed the reading time of many people, he said.

125 YEARS AGO

DR Hindle, medical officer of health for the Over Darwen urban district, has just forwarded a report to the Local Government Board, in which he states that during last year 295 deaths occurred from fevers, scarlatina, measles, whooping cough, and other preventable diseases. Last year was an exception, but during the last five years the deaths from these diseases had averaged 116. This showed that the sanitary condition of the town had been neglected. He said that at present there were no means of isolating infectious cases, and any crowded court or alley might become a centre for propagating disease.

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