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cf2b73ae-ddce-4c31-a33f-0daa3c6b5bc3 | 39 It is by no means unsatisfactory that out of about 1,150 births, somewhat over 800 women attended at your Ante-Natal centres, but in the absence of evidence that the remaining 350 cases were under adequate supervision, the figure of 825 first attendances must be regarded as one on which to improve. The number of wom... |
8db93c10-277b-41d0-8051-d6b65dd60535 | This is most noticeable amongst young mothers expecting their first baby. At the ante-natal clinics, mothers attending for the first time are seen firstly by the sister in attendance, who, if the mothers have not made arrangements for the confinement, gives them information about obtaining the services of a midwife and... |
cfde96b8-52e0-4f69-a569-d2098e64d4b9 | The minor troubles can be treated at once by medical prescription or by local application, more severe complaints can be referred to the appropriate clinics, and where any obstetric or gynaecological complaint is sufficiently severe it can be referred to the Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician at his special clin... |
8dcbbd68-1a94-4865-9061-8f9b46d43e76 | Maternal illhealth during pregnancy, and perhaps also before the occurrence of pregnancy, has been shown to be a factor which is probably of great importance in relation to the occurrence of dead births. It is presumed that maternal morbidity is closely related, both to foetal and to maternal mortality. It is certain t... |
a7152d6d-e6e9-45e6-9ea8-d1fd4056a5c5 | Closer attention is now given to this whole question in the teaching schools, particularly in respect of post graduate courses, and periodical revision courses for midwives are now insisted upon by the Central Midwives Board. (c) Midwifery.—The Council has been the Local Supervising Authority for Midwives since the 1st... |
fb3ad172-227e-4761-8c66-6799f7357b4f | Fifty-four midwives notified the Local Supervising Authority of their intention to practise within the Borough during the period 1st January, 1937 to the 31st December, 1937, and the number who were engaged in practice in the Borough at the end of the year was as follows:— At Upney Hospital 5 Municipal District Midwive... |
4261361d-c54b-4abb-906d-b2a495ec2441 | This figure is considerably smaller than for previous years on account of the fact that, on 7th May, 1937, approval was obtained for the Upney Maternity Pavilion, to be recognised for the purposes of the Central Midwives Board Rule E.2. Rule E.2 exempts a midwife who is exercising her calling under the supervision of a... |
8f81d747-d837-41cd-96dd-18dfc8f66943 | The following is a summary of the 191 cases in which medical help was sought Mother:- Anaesthetic 23 Engorged Breast 2 Haemorrhage-—Ante-partum 5 Post-partum 6 Malpresentations 19 Miscarriage 1 Prolonged labour 19 Rise of temperature 9 Retained placenta 2 Ruptured perineum 27 Uterine inertia 3 Miscellaneous causes 22 1... |
04d0ceb8-68b3-4745-a714-1689749e7404 | 0d., leaving a balance payable to the Hospital by the Council of £129 18s. 0d. During the year 1937 there were 1,057 maternity cases in the district. 120 of these were conducted by the Plaistow Maternity Charity, 411 of them were conducted by your own midwives at Upney Hospital, 174 were conducted by the midwives of th... |
34445a32-5c7e-4315-b70b-9d64b8b0414b | The Becontree South Area included that part of the Barking section of the Becontree Estate, south of the District Railway Line, and the scheme provided for the employment of two midwives by the Salvation Army, who for many years have maintained a centre within this area, from which their midwives have practised. The Be... |
c3338ed9-54d5-4539-94c3-da58b879503f | 43 For the remaining part of the Borough—termed the Barking Upney Area— two midwives were to be employed directly by the Council. In July, 1937, a communication was received from the Ministry of Health which gave the Council authority to put into operation their proposals regarding the Becontree North and the Barking U... |
5f3c0c0b-9f7f-494d-9a3c-8d1eb75fcb9d | I can, however, state that agreement has been reached, that the negotiations pending at the end of last year have been successful, and that it is anticipated that the Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home and the Salvation Army will be conducting their part of the scheme in the near future. (e) Upney Ho... |
08651c93-9147-410a-8dbc-b1cf1133b29d | Sister Ethel Jones carries into her retirement the very best wishes of all those who knew her and knew the good work which she consistently carried out. It is significant that Sister Jones came to the hospital at a time when it was anticipated that 12 cases would be the average admissions per year, and that at the time... |
79f29e97-9616-45eb-81d0-08a886b63484 | Here, I am glad to say, fuller use is being made of the Humphrey Ward, where, as I have stated previously, the resident medical officer of the Upney Hospital is in attendance. The more mothers claim the advantage of this clinic the better will be their health and happiness. (g) Gynæological Clinics.—The numbers attendi... |
0a2a4ae3-6b84-48a7-944c-c3372d596805 | In the second place, this means that these clinics are definitely intended for examinations from one standpoint only and that is woman's womanhood. These clinics are not intended for questions of general medicine, which apply equally to all men and women. (h) Pemphigus Neonatorum.—Pemphigus Neonatorum is in Barking an ... |
47748b83-779b-4d22-a826-c853c84d5cd5 | England and Wales Deaths from Rate per 1,000 births. Rate per 1,000 births. Puerperal Sepsis. Other Puerperal Causes. 1924 1 2 3.66 *3.90 1925 — 1 1.21 *4.08 1926 — 1 1.22 *4.12 1927 2 1 4.23 *4.11 1928 — 2 2.48 4.25 1929 — 2 2.54 4.16 1930 — 3 3.72 4.22 1931 1 3 4.08 3.95 1932 — 1 0.88 4.06 1933 4 — 3.2 4.23 1934 1 4 ... |
b1ed4b9d-a32a-44eb-920b-516d963e7795 | 93 1936 1 2 2.44 3.65 1937 1 4 4.28 3.11 *Rate per thousand live births—figure not available in respect of rate per thousand total births. Previously, I have pointed out how difficult it is to define the term " maternal death." The official definition is " a death due to or in consequence of childbirth," but in some ca... |
502456cd-ac32-48b6-9022-4cb9838d7652 | One of these was due to very early pregnancy and would not have been looked upon as a maternal death years ago. This case illustrates what I have said above, and what I have said previously, that it is impracticable to compare the figures of today with the figures of 25 and 100 years ago. 46 None of these cases occurre... |
b44ca9f1-a452-486b-9742-a9c0fe96d014 | You are making determined efforts to reduce maternal mortality in Barking, and I am happy to be able to tell you that of the total number of births last year, namely 1,169, a total of 825 mothers attended your ante-natal clinics during the year. This total represents roughly seventy per cent. of the total births. Durin... |
3df12606-871e-4c4d-9d52-715f87e6339e | Your present policy is to try and anticipate all difficulties, and even where a difficulty occurs which could not have been anticipated you arrange for the person to be removed, if possible, to the Upney Maternity Pavilion where only can the more serious surgical treatment be carried out under suitable conditions. All ... |
e059999b-bf14-471c-a209-73aba042a841 | 47 All cases of ophthalmia neonatorum notified are visited in their homes and if treatment cannot be carried out at home both mother and baby are taken into the Barking Hospital under the care of your Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon. Only one of the five notified cases required hospital treatment. Elsewhere, I have point... |
dbd15540-7bef-4bba-b8e3-2e6dd4275378 | (k) Illegitimate Children.—Special attention is paid by the Health Visitors to all illegitimate children. Eighteen illegitimate children were born during the year, and one died. (1) Tonsils and Adenoids.—I have reported at length upon this matter in previous years. I have nothing to add. (m) Convalescent Treatment.—Dur... |
13e11838-fec4-4656-b144-4845c2451843 | I would refer you to the statistics upon the work of this clinic on page 60. 48 (o) Ultra-Violet Light Clinic.—Special advantage has been taken of the increased facilities for ultra-violet light treatment, and during the year no less than 3,982 treatments were given to toddlers and expectant and nursing mothers as comp... |
4f7b1638-c31e-4d7b-84cd-f8d2dcddd863 | These appointments, however, were made during a holiday period and although we did not expect the experiment to be a great success we did not anticipate such a failure. I am also informed that it is difficult to get toddlers to attend for dental treatment at all, but perhaps the nursery classes which you propose to set... |
d062984b-33f1-4393-a71c-974e59a11d48 | Immunisation against scarlet fever has also been started and 44 children completed their course of injections. 49 Immunisation against whooping cough was commenced last year, but the numbers so immunised were comparatively few and it is, therefore, not yet possible to give a considered opinion on this service. It is no... |
429024b0-b5bc-4a57-9214-f5b403bc87a6 | of attendances for treatment 952 2,354 The number of new cases medically examined in 1937 totalled 1,156. (t) Infant Life Protection (under Part I of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by Part V of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932).—Infant Life Protection Officers pay visits to foster parents during the day and... |
ad4e0290-542a-41cf-bb83-623be7a024a7 | It cannot be too clearly understood that anybody who undertakes for reward the nursing and maintenance of an infant under the age of nine years, apart from its parents or having no parents, must notify the local authority in writing seven days before the receipt of the infant in the case of the first infant proposed to... |
159dcfd1-71c5-4aed-a1a4-855c9c1ea5b3 | The meaning of " reward " is very comprehensive, and means any payment or gift of money or money's worth, or any promise to pay or give money or money's worth, whether there is any intention of making profit or not. This includes, therefore, the receipt of lump sums as well as of payments at intervals. You do, I think,... |
4c2eb4f2-c759-4ea9-91ec-309928630273 | It is a happy thought that baby farming, in the sense in which these awful words were known a generation ago, does not, so far as I am aware, exist today, but the price of this is constant vigilance. (u) Maternity and Nursing Homes.—During the year no less than 414 children were born in your Maternity Home. The Upney (... |
3a1fb5c8-df5b-44b4-93e8-6eebd4822e9e | 51 (v) Infant Welfare Clinics.—The following table shows the work carried out at your various Infant Welfare Clinics during the year:— Central. Greatfields. Alexandra. Woodward. Porters Avenue. Totals. No. of sessions 104 100 99 156 148 607 No. of attendances of children under 1 year:— (a) New Cases 256 113 132 285 243... |
01ceeb24-9cfb-4fe9-bb73-f291dcbbc818 | of attendances per session 51 30 37 70 76 57 No. of sessions attended by Medical Officers 104 100 99 156 148 607 Average No. of children seen by Medical Officer per session 22 16 19 22 23 21 No. of children seen by Medical Officer other than at above sessions:— (a) New Cases 264 — — 892 — 1,156 (b) Old Cases 248 — — 49... |
2a4845ac-0f83-4d20-906a-ec92ec8c4df0 | Mothers attend very regularly at the infant welfare centres with their babies, more especially when they are under one year of age. They do not, however, attend so regularly as the child grows a little older. All the children are weighed and advice is given by the health visitors on infant feeding, hygiene, etc. When t... |
058a3942-3ff3-40b8-b1d2-d2b90ccf1455 | Children with postural defects, dental caries, visual defects or debility, necessitating ultra-violet light treatment, are referred by the medical officer to the appropriate clinic for treatment. Mothers too, with children under 2 years of age, are able to have dental treatment, ophthalmic treatment, including prescrip... |
86634ede-941c-40bc-8cc3-18ea9b82dc05 | As a single illustration, I may perhaps be permitted to draw a picture of your eye service, at any one of which sessions it might be possible to find expectant mothers, nursing mothers, toddlers, elementary school children, children from the Abbey School and the South-East Essex Technical College, candidates to be appo... |
0f6f142b-919d-4b38-a2cb-2f9876be997b | In the massage department for instance, women come up post-natally for abdominal muscle massage, where it is considered necessary by Mr. J. V. O'Sullivan, by Dr. Bampfylde-Wells, or by one of your other medical officers. 53 (w) Home Visiting.—The home visits carried out by your Health Visitors are shown in detail in th... |
f9451c07-fc88-49cc-8fcb-3a9a2ab28f5d | of special visits in connection with ophthalmia neonatorum 16 ,, ,, ,, deaths of children up to 3 years of age 43 ,, „ „ stillbirths 29 „ ,, „ puerperal sepsis and puerperal pyrexia 9 Other visits (re infectious diseases) 135 No. of visits to foster children 279 Total home visits of all kinds 12,911 (x) Provision of Fr... |
2256cb80-049e-436b-8097-9ce1fc6297c4 | 51,878 142,047 193,925 £2,853 18 0 £2,476 14 0 Pursuant to the receipt of Circular 1519 from the Ministry of Health, Pasteurised milk was supplied as from the 1st May, 1937. 54 Particulars of the amounts of dried milks, etc., supplied free and at reduced rates are as follows:— Cost Price (pkts.) Half Price (pkts.) Free... |
ab9da290-daf1-4cb9-b48f-201ca8e159f0 | 2 1,840 655 1,132 3,627 Ambrosia 155 39 109 303 Cow and Gate 4,418 1,063 2,476 7,957 Cow and Gate (half cream) 1,104 149 370 1,623 Colact 110 69 303 482 Hemolac 24 1 36 61 Lactogal 154 38 121 313 Glaxo " O " Brand 2 10 28 40 Trufood 69 4 19 92 Lactogen No. 1 93 2 40 135 Lactogen No. |
2af536ab-0731-4fa3-81bc-a357797da1f4 | 2 154 — 56 210 Virol 1,133 313 2,124 3,570 Parrish's Food 262 60 554 876 Liquid Paraffin 158 59 238 455 Malt and Oil 737 320 2,187 3,244 Pure Cod Liver Oil 758 71 289 1,118 Cod Liver Oil Emulsion 3,084 524 2,522 6,130 Totals 14,851 3,525 12,852 31,228 (y) Mothercraft Circles.—I wish to write on a matter which strictly ... |
bf77f688-4479-48fe-9d6d-dfede1b60f22 | The mothers are encouraged to bring knitting and sewing to the meeting and are given help with patterns and material (by courtesy of the Barking Infant Welfare Society) and advice on making up garments. Talks on health, hygiene and other subjects of interest are given and occasionally there will be cinematograph and ot... |
01ded089-8c8a-4e0f-ba27-dcb14951d9ba | In addition there were 77 post-natal and gynaecological attendances. Baths In certain necessitous cases, free baths are provided for expectant and nursing mothers. During 1937, 127 baths were granted free of charge. Birth Control Clinic In September, 1937 you decided to set up a Birth Control Clinic and to hold monthly... |
f4ec6e54-0161-4d35-b1fc-cac8d2b596b2 | Dental Treatment Dental treatment for toddlers and expectant and nursing mothers is carried out at the Central Clinic, the Woodward Clinic, and the East Street Clinic. Dinners Free dinners are supplied to necessitous nursing and expectant mothers and to toddlers, on the recommendation of Medical Officers at the Infant ... |
5a2fefb3-6aad-40d0-93f3-8c0ea4752711 | Infant Welfare Clinics Infant Welfare Clinics are held each week at five different Centres. These Clinics are available for all children under the age of five years. Maternity Services Maternity Home.—Upney Hospital is a maternity home run by the Corporation. Applications for admission are made at the Ante-Natal Clinic... |
86f7cc22-4038-4961-8b7f-d6e627aa09f6 | Consultations.—There is a Specialist-Consultant available for consultations in cases of abnormal pregnancy, puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia and in cases of difficult labour. 57 Medicines, Supply of During the course of the year a scheme was formulated, and arrangements were made with local chemists by which presc... |
0711b08c-cca7-422c-84f1-f24fb67610f2 | The scheme includes the provision of spectacles at a very low charge, and in some cases, where the family income is below a certain scale, at no charge. During the year seven mothers and seventeen children under the age of five years were provided with spectacles under this scheme. Orthopaedic Service The Orthopaedic S... |
b5259ca8-0f69-4475-8710-99600352106e | 58 Ultra-Violet Light Treatment Ultra-violet light treatment is given to expectant and nursing mothers and to children under the age of five years at the Orthopaedic Clinic. During 1937, 381 cases were treated, a total number of 3,982 treatments being given. Visiting in the Home Periodic visits are paid by the Health V... |
2c7ec5dc-8fa8-40ad-bb84-691f5266a1af | 59 REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE OPHTHALMIC CLINICS. The following is a summary of the work carried out during the year in respect of toddlers and nursing and expectant mothers:— Toddlers. Tests under atropine 34 Other attendances 77 Spectacles prescribed 23 Spectacles supplied 17 External Diseases of the Eye treated at th... |
31a3c550-3cc2-49c7-a4a4-3d1359925cf2 | Tests 21 Other Attendances (Blepharitis and Conjunctivitis 3, Meibomiam cyst 1) 29 Spectacles prescribed 14 Spectacles supplied 7 In these clinics the two groups of cases, i.e., expectant and nursing mothers on the one hand, and toddlers and infants on the other, differ markedly from each other but have this in common—... |
baf8914f-1409-4a2b-a6bd-740d6c4059ef | Fatigue of the eyes is then easily produced. This, fortunately, is only a temporary condition and many such cases find that after some little time the headache disappears. It is our custom to recommend glasses only in cases in which symptoms of eye strain have persisted for some months. No case of injury or disease of ... |
ca76b5ec-d6c8-41bf-b7d5-11868d337813 | As I have reported before there is a modern duo-therapy lamp and an up-to-date therapeutic switch table at the Orthopaedic Clinic. During the year you have employed two full-time masseuses, and as and when the occasion arises these masseuses even visit people in their own homes, in order that some necessary treatment m... |
b2d71787-c5bd-4b9e-8dc2-22df22b706b6 | of primary examinations by Orthopaedic Surgeon 130 No. of re-examinations by Orthopaedic Surgeon 175 The cases dealt with for the first time during 1937 were referred for the following conditions :— (a) Deformities—Bones and Joints. (1) Congenital: Flexion deformity—digit-—hand 1 Deformed toes 3 Deformed cranium 1 (2) ... |
ee7473c7-bffe-471d-b4db-f16c968d58c5 | Old hemiplegia 1 Hemihypertrophy 1 4 (d) Miscellaneous. Eversion right lower limb 1 Pain in hip joint 1 Re gait 8 No diagnosis 1 11 Total defects found 130 During the year six toddlers were admitted to hospital, five for operations and one for observation, as follows:— Operations : Manipulation and plaster 3 Tenotomy T... |
96ccf16d-4e71-474a-a40b-82b3519388db | Primary Examination Re-examination For Treatment Totals School Children Toddlers and Expectant & Nursing Mothers School Children Toddlers and Expectant & Nursing Mothers School Children Toddlers and Expectant & Nursing Mothers School Children Toddlers and Expectant & Nursing Mothers 11 834 146 130 263 175 8,084 6,301 8... |
0faaf89a-9555-477c-8353-90a033431ccb | of Treatments School Children 28 1,180 14 446 207 2,333 328 4,635 9 182 166 1,143 752 10,609 Toddlers and Expectant & Nursing Mothers. 40 1,093 7 120 54 807 381 3,982 5 186 205 1,659 692 7,847 Admissions to Hospitals School Children Toddlers Total School Children Toddlers Total 16 (Under Council's Orthopaedic Scheme) 6... |
e80c31db-d595-4e87-aaf3-b13451a86efb | Figures are comparable with those of last year, an increase of approximately one hundred dentures supplied being the most noticeable variation. The number of patients attending for treatment at the Woodward Clinic is larger than that which can be adequately handled and to overcome this, a certain percentage now attend ... |
3faa0093-a5bb-4c4e-9435-6c3c8ac9d659 | I have the honour to be, Sir Your obedient Servant, W. H. FOY, L.D.S., R.C.S. (ENG.), Senior Dental Officer. 66 DENTAL CLINIC. Mothers and Toddlers. Extractions 3,669 Scalings 125 Dressings 31 Inspections 203 Fillings 278 Dentures supplied 467 Anaesthetics— General 774 Local 66 Patients— Old 2,247 New 470 Number of Ses... |
afcf3f44-2b2b-4916-9830-e8777d96126d | It cannot, however, be other than a source of satisfaction to me that this development I so earnestly recommended has proved itself to be a success beyond any hopes I held out, and has been of more benefit to the people of Barking than I could see at the time I recommended it. It is strictly speaking unnecessary for me... |
52f8c9da-2762-49ef-9bb4-ea5eda60ebbb | This laboratory is not intended in any way to replace the services of the Counties Public Health Laboratory, nor to be used as a routine laboratory. In every Public Health Service, problems arise which cannot be submitted to a routine laboratory, but must be dealt with on the spot: if no laboratory is available, such p... |
3ef7eb5f-0420-496d-ac0b-f01c89a37100 | One of the most widely examined fluids in Pathology is urine, which is a notoriously perishable liquid and in most cases must be examined immediately after voiding to obtain reliable results. Further, there are a number of organisms which die out within an hour or two of leaving the body and which would not therefore s... |
a74b9ec5-5a89-4eb5-b897-aec600b0124f | It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a very large incidence of anæmia among the women in industrial districts, and we have found by wholesale blood tests that Barking is no exception to this rule. Such anaemia if untreated may become very severe and is definitely a great source of danger during pregnancy.... |
b3ef5ba2-ccc8-46d0-b88a-6b21fbd8173b | The toxaemias of pregnancy provide another source of pathological examinations which must be carried out in order to help determine the severity of the toxaemia, and also to trace the patient's progress under treatment. Incidentally, workers in this field have found that the anaemic woman is much more liable to toxaemi... |
f3f35c44-6a39-4726-b56d-635af1c57e9e | When it is realised that there are nearly thirty so-called " types " of this germ which are dangerous to man, no one of which gives complete immunity to any other, it must be apparent that this germ is a very grave menace. These types are strictly permanent, in other words one type can never be transmuted into any othe... |
cd3fd4db-12af-4589-ad70-3484110dcf12 | It is noteworthy that a person who has had scarlet fever in childhood through infection with one type of streptococcus is not safeguarded against streptococcal diseases of other descriptions caused by a different type, although it is rarely that the clinical syndrome designated “scarlet fever ”appears more than once in... |
428d1d75-f84d-42ba-8647-e92df5108477 | This may be the patient's own throat or the throat of one of her attendants. 70 It has of course only been possible to develop gradually and development is still proceeding. Although the laboratory has been open for a little over a year, this is far too brief a period in which to discover all the material on which inve... |
47edc862-57a5-43e4-82a2-59176b34da44 | E. M. HILL, Ph.D., Dip., Bact., Scientist." 71 SECTION C. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA. 1. WATER. South Essex Waterworks Company Supplies.—The Engineer of the South Essex Waterworks Company informs me of the following facts:— " During the year 1935 the Company obtained an Act of Parliament for the abstraction of ... |
f568792c-85f0-4af0-98f4-ee8c010dd014 | The scheme further authorises the construction of three pumping stations, filtration plant and about 26 miles of pipe lines. It is not anticipated that the scheme will come into supply before 1940. Extension of mains in your Borough:— 3” 104 yards. 4” 2,620 ,, 6” 207 ,, 9” 676 ,, 12” 2,582 ,, There was no form of conta... |
232f4c39-4ded-4938-9183-5d123135f8da | Our examinations show the number of degrees of total hardness on Clark's Scale to vary from 19 to 24. The Company point out that they are prepared to reduce the hardness, provided consumers will suffer an increase in the charges. It is the permanent hardness which fluctuates. Supplies from local wells.—There are in the... |
21ff90bb-49e1-4ec8-9d00-132c0610dad0 | RAINFALL. The rainfall for the year ended 31st December, 1937 was 23.25 inches as compared with 16.57 inches for the previous year. Rain fell on 181 days in the year 1937. 3. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE. The joint drainage arrangements between Ilford and Barking have functioned satisfactorily during the year. 73 4. RIVERS AN... |
66e5de3f-f246-4ac9-a21e-34c084ba93c1 | I note that under present legislation tidal waters of a stream are exempt from the operation of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts, unless otherwise determined by an Order made by the Ministry of Health. River Roding.—In the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking for the year 1898, he referred to ... |
e6b6b900-e9bf-4f01-ac01-cd360903e865 | The bacteriologist reported on these samples as follows:— 1. This is a grossly contaminated river water, having the bacterial composition of sewage effluent. 2. This is a grossly contaminated river water, having the bacterial composition of sewage effluent. In addition typhoid bacilli could be isolated." 74 I want now ... |
908c877e-cb32-4116-991d-62c99608a938 | Even with this precaution, I think the Roding may still be contaminated other than from sewage works owned by local authorities. All these points of possible contamination require investigation and supervision. I note that the Essex County Council have eight representatives on the River Roding Catchment Board and am ho... |
364b6b6d-f60d-44c8-9575-ea17cb6d2c52 | (a) Storage, Collection and Disposal.—The collection and disposal of domestic refuse is controlled by the Borough Engineer and Surveyor, 75 During the year, 7,440½ loads of refuse were collected, with an average weight of 1 ton 12 cwts. This figure shows a yield of 8.2 cwts per 1,000 of the population per day. When the... |
04887e14-bd1f-47a0-956d-cc7474a4c357 | Naturally, so far as we are concerned, it is scarce possible to think of a service that would be too frequent. I feel, however, it is difficult to put forward convincing arguments in support of a proposition that the much increased collection costs would be offset by any substantial increase in comfort, convenience or ... |
85f952a1-c92b-4f9e-8fb9-7d65e98be0df | Refuse tipping has been carried on throughout the year by the Corporation on land being reclaimed on the north bank of the Roding, adjoining the sewage works. 76 There has been a gradual improvement in the operations but there is still much to criticise in the tipping methods, and these criticisms have been brought to ... |
4b48f0f5-b337-4591-8f14-a6f6a3f43d88 | The number of complaints received and recorded in the register of complaints was 659, as compared with 759 in 1936, 855 in 1935, 551 in 1934 and 927 in 1933. The premises were inspected forthwith and any necessary action taken. The total number of visits paid by sanitary inspectors to various premises for all purposes ... |
04715391-36d4-483f-8ad0-539e7e7c16c4 | Total Houses Inspected under Public Health or Housing Acts ... 3,695 Total Number of Inspections made 10,644 Housing (Consolidated) Regulations 981 After Infectious Disease 844 Overcrowded Premises 1,416 Defects Found 6,801 Notices Served (Preliminary) 2,349 Re-inspections re Notices Served 3,942 Inspection of Works in... |
3883cb46-b084-4be9-a95d-81f65bf13cac | Houses Let in Lodgings – – – Common Lodging Houses 29 – – Offensive Trades 143 18 12 Tents, Vans and Sheds 97 16 13 Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 123 15 6 Slaughter-houses 175 – – Hairdressers' & Barbers' Premises 42 7 6 Smoke Observations 225 53 49 77 (3) Factories, Workshops and Workplaces. Inspections. Defects. No... |
1ee7ace4-e7fc-405a-b55a-f725d041d771 | Factories 245 15 10 Laundries 3 – – Bakehouses 35 14 7 Domestic Workshops 20 2 1 Other Workshops 107 11 4 Other Workplaces 126 16 8 Outworkers' Rooms 110 – – Butchers' Premises 250 76 54 Fishmongers 54 15 13 Restaurants and Dining Rooms 123 47 28 Stables and Stable Yards 37 10 9 Piggeries 13 – – (4) Miscellaneous. Insp... |
3cf3a83f-1bba-467e-9bd4-e6b01b479821 | Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 66 4 4 Vacant Land and Refuse Dumps 261 21 18 Public Lavatories 26 3 3 Schools 41 4 1 Markets and General Shops 303 36 35 Ice-Cream Vendors 166 19 18 Petroleum and Celluloid Stores 69– – –– Drainage Inspections 308 – – Milk Sampling 90 – – Other Miscellaneous 279 3 3 78 Inspections... |
b5b40ce1-186b-45c2-bc47-55d71200a781 | Inspection of Meat from Outside District 162 – – Shops Act, 1934 466 21 17 Water Sampling 9 – – Food Manufacturers 28 5 5 Picturedromes 2 – – Street Traders 126 1 1 Food Byelaws 40 23 23 Boilers 24 – – Obstructive Outbuildings 127 – – Pleasure Grounds 4 – – Noise Nuisance 1 – – (b) Summary of Sanitary Work Carried Out.... |
7442005c-c086-4dc8-9ce4-32f05b08b99c | New fixed 58 New sink and bath wastepipes 53 New gully traps 25 (4) Dampness. Roofs and flashings 575 Eavesgutters 325 Rainwater pipes 154 79 (5) Water Supply. Defective water fittings repaired and supply reinstated 48 (6) Paving. Forecourt paving repaired or relaid 31 Yard paving repaired or relaid 104 Gully dishing r... |
1145d011-5c90-4972-b888-4bbd1d2b15ee | External walls repointed 315 House floors repaired 125 Windows repaired or renewed 319 Windows reglazed 22 Window and door reveals repaired 100 Window sills repaired or renewed 128 Sashcords renewed 176 Washing coppers repaired or renewed 81 Stoves repaired or renewed 158 House doors and frames repaired or renewed 141 ... |
2cba8697-ca81-4aa0-a800-f8aa951b0c7f | Informal Notices 2,349 Statutory Notices:— Public Health Act, 1875:— Section 23 – Section 36 11 Section 41 5 Section 94 176 Public Health Act, 1925:— Section 46 1 Public Health Act, 1936:— Section 39 17 Section 44 1 Section 45 1 Section 46 1 Section 93 65 Housing Act, 1936:— Section 9 150 Section 10 1 Other Acts:— Shop... |
faf8b45d-e5fb-43df-ae30-b22f672afd52 | Factories 276 15 – – Workshops 142 11 – – Workplaces 126 8 – – Totals 544 34 – – (d) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. Factories, Workshops and Workplaces. 81 (2) Defects found. Particulars. Number of Defects. Number of Prosecutions. Found Remedied Referred to H.M. Inspector *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— Want... |
536e91bf-bdcb-49a1-afa1-0687e361b960 | 101) – – – – Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) 1† 1† – – Other offences – – – – Totals 57 57 – – * Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts. † Bakehouse demolished. (3) Home Work. Eight not... |
c8f5ac1d-4c64-4825-97aa-e175e219b4df | Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (sec. 133) – Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (sec. 5) – Other – Underground Bakehouses (sec. 101):— – Cert... |
d956d03a-a068-4202-b7da-72b307371397 | The following list shows the nature of the homework carried out in this district by 61 outworkers:— Wearing apparel 31 Millinery 3 Tie-making 3 Life-belt covering 4 Machinery 1 Box makers 3 Paper hats, Christmas crackers and novelties 5 Flags 4 Handbags 1 Infants' bibs 1 Fancy leather goods 1 Umbrellas 2 Christmas card... |
f93dc569-63a6-4878-b8cf-6b37d9889c51 | (2) Common Lodging Houses.—There remains one common lodging house in the district and this is included in a clearance area, which has received confirmation and this common lodging house will therefore be demolished at an early date. I have on other occasions and in other reports referred to the need for a municipal hos... |
577be41c-fe79-446a-8270-acf81c35db67 | (5) Offensive Trades.—The number of premises used for this purpose are as follows:— Fish Fryers 23 Dealers in Rags and Bones 7 Gut Scraper 1 Fat Melters 2 Fish Skin Scraper 1 Oil Boiler 1 Soap Makers 1 Total 36 84 One hundred and forty-three visits were paid to these 36 premises, and 18 contraventions of the byelaws we... |
6aacba89-6035-476a-8057-b3b78c74ea97 | (6) Piggeries.—There are three remaining piggeries in the district. (7) Stables.—These premises continue to be a source of trouble. The occupiers are invariably unable financially to carry out any improvements. The Council has made byelaws for the control of these premises. Thirty-seven visits were paid during the year... |
dd39af9f-8a73-4ee1-96f0-70664b608166 | The matter is being dealt with by the use of baits. Repressive Measures.—Occupiers are encouraged to carry out the trapping of rats themselves, and the owners are called upon to effect rat-proofing where the source of the infestation is other than defective drains. Advice is given by the sanitary inspectors and a free ... |
a04b61d0-65a9-45f5-b931-a9a714c8f5b5 | Although it is my duty to report this indifferent support by the public during the particular week which was given to this propaganda, I think that in some small measure this redounds to your credit, because in my opinion, this means that, at least to a considerable extent, you are dealing continuously throughout the y... |
7782dd38-1d2a-4657-be04-1fe7b01ade72 | We have not found rag flock in use at either of these establishments, which are quite small repair shops. (h) Removal of Infirm and Diseased Persons. The Barking Corporation Act, 1933, empowers the Medical Officer of Health to certify that a person is infirm or diseased, and is incapable of taking care of himself, and ... |
a8a4addd-4a63-4d51-8ed9-6b50d5822ad9 | has been regarded as a suitable minimum, and the shops have been divided into three classes:— (1) Shops for the sale of non-perishable articles. (2) Shops for the sale of perishable articles. (3) Open shops and Forecourt Traders. The problem of heating in respect of the three types of shops has been dealt with in the f... |
0006ce2b-60b0-4752-b546-c32ecea82ed6 | Several instrumental methods of measuring the standard of warmth and ventilation have been carried out by research workers and most have agreed that a dry kata-thermometer reading within the limits of D.K. 5.0 and D.K. 7.0 indicates a zone of comfort which can be obtained in most shops. 87 We have not experienced any s... |
72bd3ccc-fc40-4823-ba83-145c63575f79 | Although the introduction of these byelaws did not meet with approval from all quarters of the trade, it was, in reality a charter to all the members of the trade who were running their establishments satisfactorily, and we have found that there is a tendency for those shops who do not maintain a sufficiently high stan... |
b611c2ea-682f-4aea-be13-c56e41696e35 | During the year 225 smoke observations were made in respect of factories, 53 offences were registered and necessary action taken. Grit Emission from Coal Combustion.—During the year a petition was received from residents in the neighbourhood of the Generating Station at Creeksmouth, and the grit emission from the chimn... |
170dcc5b-e9ee-4a59-9db4-2c2dfc2450dd | Grit Emission from Wood Fuel.—Complaints of grit emission were received from 260 residents in the neighbourhood of a wood-block factory, where the wood refuse was being burned in the furnace of a Lancashire Boiler. Considerable nuisance was being caused. The Company in the autumn installed a new furnace, but the nuisan... |
912677d5-9943-4ea0-af7e-9383dce8a131 | In the one case the nuisance arises from the discharge from the steamer to the road lorry of fine granite and similar dusty material and in the second case from the grading and screening plant. Although de-dusting screens were in operation the nuisance was considerable. Whilst alterations in handling have been effected... |
70351e0d-adbe-48b4-9228-ad0cd446b66d | It was felt, therefore, with the coming into force of the Public Health Act, 1936, that the time was opportune for the Corporation to make byelaws on these lines, and at the end of the year such byelaws were awaiting confirmation. There are in the district 105 chimneys which would be subject to the byelaws and 16 which... |
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