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ce7011e1-d3f3-46ed-b8ff-0939ef37a1ce | This, however, is not a hardship really as, after all, early in life you are taught to clean your teeth, but you have to go on cleaning your teeth all your life and, in the same way, a person who is a stammerer must go on and on and on practising relaxation and carrying out the every advice which he has learnt from the... |
4bc31fd3-f848-41a6-aac0-f301abb9c869 | Answer:—Plantar warts definitely are an infection. Fortunately we do not get a large number of these; fortunately, also, they can be dealt with quite simply. What is definitely indicated is that your child has walked somewhere in bare feet where someone who has plantar warts has already walked; alternatively, he or she... |
a1b3e1a1-d5a0-4a8d-993e-614aca8fcd14 | Of course the present shoes the child is wearing may be the cause of the corn, particularly if they were bought a little bit too small with the idea they would be comfortable after they were broken in. Equally, it may be true that the corn was started entirely by a previous pair of shoes and, indeed, the child may be w... |
aa9987e9-1066-47d1-a797-eead7a2f894d | He may be said to be a children's specialist but we do not want this to be true if it means that the paediatrician of the future is going to be linked to the children's specialist of the past, because the children's specialist of the past was far more interested in st udying the diseases of children and curing them tha... |
79a10506-6ce4-4ef6-84cb-c8534c7d1b9b | To give one simple little illustration of this I mention that where it would be quite usual for an adult to have a shivering attack at the commencement of a chill a child does not commonly so shiver but alternatively suffers from what is known as a fit. Thirdly, of course, there are certain diseases which although not ... |
2efbec18-377f-4ee0-af5d-8945a2cc7202 | This Assistant Medical Officer is changed from time to time but we find it advantageous to have one particular Medical Officer in attendance for several weeks. Your Consultant Paediatrician saw 115 children during the year 1947. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Question:—To what extent, if any, is infectious disease spread by child... |
a567f610-3508-45f6-a34c-5683f1a7783a | I was Infectious Diseases Scarlet Fever 71 Whooping Cough 85 Measles 264 Diphtheria 4 Pneumonia 12 Poliomyelitis (both nonparalytic) 2 19 not quite convinced about his figures but recognised there was a lot to be said for his submission and, in the same way, in our modern schools if—on the one hand— a child has an adde... |
a1ff0748-c7b7-46b6-bfb2-5d3a87f5407d | Classes at school or whole schools can be closed if the Medical Officer so advises, but by long experience it has been found that this is only advisable occasionally because whether we like it or not children will mix with one another, particularly in towns, and as a matter of fact keeping the children at school (where... |
e8a3f2a7-ec68-4f69-a716-afd6003ef7a6 | Work is being done at the present time but there are some special difficulties in any research which depends upon the diagnosis of this disease. The fact is there are children who cough and who "whoop" but who are not suffering from Whooping Cough, and there are children who cough and who do not "whoop" who are sufferi... |
38d3f2ca-815f-468d-a27b-9f907ab926ed | Measles is another disease which can be spread in school although, as with other diseases, it can be spread elsewhere and—indeed—is often spread elsewhere. Fortunately the type of measles which has prevailed has not been particularly severe, 20 but we do not seem to be able to control this disease in a way in which som... |
3921586b-92f3-4907-8b3e-cfdfe38574f3 | Even twenty-four hours or so before the rash can be seen with the naked eye it can be detected by taking a photograph of the child; whether this will ever prove of any practical worth in the early detection of Measles I do not know, but we may try it when, having more beds for such cases, early detection can be of real... |
a928ee9a-d204-418c-8a4d-3ee4f255afd2 | determined to get one hundred per cent, of their children inoculated. Inoculation as carried out today is simple; in the vast majority of cases it is all but painless ; it should be undertaken long before the child attends school but when the child does attend school or otherwise begins to come in contact with large nu... |
174aa068-ab66-4173-8da1-df924e4b5330 | Question:—What was done in Barking to stop the recent outbreak of Infantile Paralysis ? Answer:—This again is a question not of my asking, but one which was put to me and one which I will try to answer faithfully although it does not represent medicine in a very favourable light. 21 The difficulty about Infantile Paral... |
928678b7-e0a3-4edd-9571-84ae7167d9c7 | In other words it comes within the same category as the coughs and colds, concerning which it has been said " coughs and sneezes spread diseases", but it seems quite certain also that this is not the whole of the picture, and particularly in times when there are not a large number of cases the spread takes place in qui... |
67aa237c-63a6-4936-9d08-849d2169040e | What we can do in the present time is to isolate so soon as possible people who may be suffering from Infantile Paralysis, and here I want to say how thankful I am that the people of Barking have whole-heartedly co-operated with us and have allowed their children to go into an Isolation Hospital, even where we have not... |
b82fe087-8efb-498c-9299-d3cd879914fb | Answer:—This is an actual question which has been put to me—indeed it is a question which is always cropping up, and sometimes people take a very poor view when in answer I say " it all depends". Generally speaking the public can rest assured that if you are dealing with a disease which people rarely have more than onc... |
74850fb2-86d2-43ed-bf4b-ba17bfeed8d3 | It is, I believe, true in those countries today where it is prevalent. It is, therefore, quite in accordance with the principles I have set out above that something has been found which does give immunity against Smallpox, which is of course an infectious disease. As I have shown elsewhere immunisation against Diphther... |
fef08e6f-8c56-49a1-a22e-8e5754d00b71 | As I have said elsewhere Scabies is getting less frequent. For the three previous years we were seeing about 250 cases a year; in 1947 we saw but 110 cases. Regarding the masses of scabs and sores which doctors call Impetigo, the figures fell from 401 in 1945 to 257 in 1946 and down to as low as 138 in 1947. Question:—... |
11e000a0-f977-4f75-a5a0-4fda7c0059c1 | In between the visits treatment is maintained at the Barking Hospital, and in this way, and because at the Central Clinic there is a special room for " Skins a number of cases are kept from attending at your ordinary Clinics, save only that there must, of necessity, be cases which come up for the first time to an ordin... |
3685102b-450c-44a7-9f81-7f75208b0477 | You will remember that during the war Scabies became quite prominent, and that last year I was able to say the incidence of Scabies was definitely on the decline. In my last report I said it was too early to " Halloa " until we were out of the wood, but having regard to the fact that only no cases were known in 1947 I ... |
d5142a48-833a-4fc5-ad07-b3e20c29921c | This does not cause much trouble, but she lays her eggs just under the surface of the skin and when all the little sarcoptes scabiei begin to wiggle about, that is when the skin begins to itch, and Scabies as you know itches quite a lot, so much so it has been properly known as the " itch NUTRITION. Question:—Do you th... |
1e817bf2-fd26-48e5-a395-781b6454560f | A friend of mine who for many years lived in Canada in days which can almost be looked upon as the pioneering days, and who was a very observant fellow, noted how the people who came out from mid-Europe—themselves of stunted growth—had fine, strapping, upstanding children, but if they had brought children out with them... |
43ec52e8-290d-47d9-a1e9-9caeadc68379 | 24 Question:—How is my child standing up to the present food shortage? Answer:—I am very much afraid I must incur the possible animosity of many mothers and fathers when I ask " Is there a food shortage "? Certainly the physical condition of the boys and girls of Barking does not lead me to believe there is such a shor... |
1438a1de-0047-4ef8-9c92-4bcc0293ef9e | It is this simple information which makes me say I am very doubtful whether we can speak of a food shortage as such. Herein I have set forth detailed figures and the student will no doubt analyse these figures critically. Age Groups Number of Pupils Inspected A. X (Good) B.+ (Fair) C.— (Poor) No. % of col. 2 No. % of c... |
58d5737d-cc32-4ae6-b122-e20ed311b531 | 2 Entrants 1,786 562 31.47 1,218 68.20 6 .33 Second Age Group 2,047 672 32.83 1,371 66.98 4 .19 Third Age Group 1,700 602 35.41 1,091 64.18 7 .41 Other Periodic Inspections 3,437 1,138 33.11 2,291 66.66 8 .23 Total 8,970 2,974 33.15 5,971 66.57 25 .28 X A. = Excellent Nutrition. + B. = Normal Nutrition. —C. = Slightly ... |
48fa63be-50d0-430e-b05a-8cce333c161b | Standards of nutrition, however, depend upon the personal idiosyncrasy of the doctor making the assessment. You may take it that doctors generally have a very good knowledge of pre-war conditions and have due regard to this in making their present day assessment. Moreover, although during the past years our medical sta... |
755d3f7e-beeb-4972-9f40-886089314629 | Neither cooking, table appointments nor congenial company can be factors of real importance if once a person is desperately hungry. In the ordinary way when people take meals the way in which the food is cooked and otherwise prepared, the way in which it is served and the company in which it is eaten, are very importan... |
12fd23a2-9aa9-4525-b4d5-d7293aa02415 | It is a curious thing—two people eat similar meals, the same proteins, fats and carbo-hydrates and alike in every other way by which the scientist can judge— including calorific value—but if the one person eats it quietly in good company Average Number of School Meals served each week during 1947 30,000 26 and good fel... |
5618aa95-762f-4acc-bda4-94b1eaa617f1 | I was ashamed to tell my husband, but I did so, and we began talking matters over and ended up by asking how much time I had spent keeping my child's head clean and what the Public Health Department were doing about this, because quite frankly we felt it was wrong for the louse to be there at all, and if there were not... |
669439d9-d37b-4cf2-aee8-b2c4c6cc0f19 | The trouble is that the number of uncleanliness findings is much higher than the number of individual children who have been cleansed during the year, which means that the real offenders are the repeated offenders. The difficulty, of course, is a family one. Rarely is a child repeatedly verminous unless the mother or a... |
b523161b-d87c-4216-a1b6-7a133c3278a4 | I see that some of the papers which advertise permanent waving point out that the permanent UNCLEANLINESS Total Number of examinations in the schools by the School Nurses or other authorised persons 14,280 Total Number of individual pupils found to be infested . . 460 Number of individual pupils in respect of whom clea... |
43a60a43-4934-477c-82c7-e494c8b658f3 | A larger number of these cases, however, are where mother has given up the fight and, quite frankly, I cannot help believing that the words of Dr. Ben Johnson were fall of significance when he said—" There, but for the grace of God, go I Not all these people who have given up the fight have given it up without a strugg... |
2921c785-0e9b-4f62-9829-95ac3284d174 | It is easy to keep the hair short enough—that really is no problem—or, contrariwise, the problem is such a simple one that it can be overcome in a few minutes. Personally I would suggest teaching the elder girls in every school hairdressing. They could practise upon one another and on the younger girls, and should be e... |
999f8eb8-b059-4107-b6ab-271983422195 | Answer:—In the first place I want to say I have a great deal of sympathy with the person who has propounded this question, and there can be no doubt that if mother has a large family and she has enough help in the home, there should be no need for Nursery classes. A child, however, requires company—children of about hi... |
c846b79a-e816-4d79-9fbd-7b34e6a3ea61 | I want to make it quite clear that whilst this is to be said on the credit side, there is a debit side which has to be faced, and that is the children come into contact with mass infection at an age younger than the sixth year which is the normal time for a child to go to school. I do believe there are more running nos... |
60e797b6-183b-4f29-abae-ed5f9ea5c6f7 | She had in her primitive state, as need she must, periods of relaxation, and today it is just as necessary for the mother's mental health as for the child's mental health that arrangements be made for The child to be cared for under such circumstances. A colleague of mine, learned in literature, sums up the situation b... |
d577e5bc-77de-4184-8717-6b5a72853297 | Answer:—Faircross School was opened in the year 1922 since when a great deal of very useful information has been acquired. There is in my opinion no doubt that where a child can be taught in an ordinary school that child should be taught in such a school because, as I have said 29 elsewhere, it is at school that a chil... |
b604e96d-d55d-4f3f-b535-178634d9700f | There are, however, some backward children who cannot keep step with even the lowest grade children to be found in ordinary schools, and these must unquestionably be taken away from the ordinary schools, or otherwise the whole of their mental outlook on life is going to be warped. Many of them too must, of course, be t... |
6aef641c-7086-4fea-a839-2233e6aee9ea | Faircross School does also meet the special needs of delicate and physicallyhandicapped children who, because of their physical disability are unable to fit into the life of the ordinary school, but there have been many happy instances where, after a time at Faircross under open-air conditions and constant medical supe... |
50cfd30f-35ce-4f2f-a3b3-e21db1bacc30 | As a matter of fact, out of all the thousands of school children in Barking, there are only 3 partially blind requiring special educational treatment, and one only who is totally blind—this last case is particularly tragic because it was as the result of war injury. FAIRCROSS SPECIAL SCHOOL Number admitted 43 Number di... |
0d476964-f078-4beb-940c-e4f408ccc747 | Answer:—I am happy to say that we have not a sufficient number of deaf children to justify a special school or class for them in Barking, and arrangements are therefore made either for their admission to a Boarding Special School, or to the Tunmarsh Lane Deaf Centre (Day) at West Ham, where with hearing aids and specia... |
f4364175-2488-4750-9aef-62dcc1639839 | This was all a very long time ago; the law-giver was a very wise man; there is no recorded history of the penalty being enforced, because the wise man knew that so-called difficult children are the product of difficult parents and that the last thing the parents would ever do would be to join together and bring an indi... |
ff23e1db-3614-48b5-8b11-50ac3ca829f6 | The time is coming when, if the janitor of the Town Hall runs off with the Mace, it will be said to be due to the fact that when he was a lad he was not allowed to have a spoon to stir the sugar in his tea, or if an important officer is known to get frightfully annoyed when he loses his spectacles it will be ascribed t... |
fbbbce30-8edd-4964-a596-2fa95cb3d705 | Man, however, is much older than civilisation and for aeons of time the youngsters were, like destructive little monkeys, able to go to the fore-shore and elsewhere and enjoy themselves to their hearts' content, smashing pebbles against boulders, and father and mother never worried at all. What we have done in civilisa... |
589e141c-dede-4517-9138-6a1ee06da49d | Question:—Why is it that the playing-fields attached to some schools and the playgrounds of others, are not used more when the schools are not in session? Answer:—So far as the playing-fields are concerned there is not much difficulty in answering this question, because grass is a very difficult thing to grow, so that ... |
3c58ab27-06b2-4f3b-a0f9-0d6f690a6ec2 | 32 As a matter of fact the truth of these words is as true today as it was in the days of the Iron Duke. The battles of the world are fought not only on the playing-fields of Eton but also in the playgrounds of our ordinary schools. What a boy does at an examination will, of course, be very largely determined by his wo... |
2a58ddc7-5ef2-488b-bcb9-09ceb708ab5a | What is wanted is people who have a genuine love of children and who are loved by children and who understand children, not by reason of their learning in the abstruse sciences, but by reason of the fact that they are sympathetic towards children and can sense their point of view. I am not representing these people in ... |
3fcd22ba-8096-4d3e-ac79-1f4e5fbd2b75 | Approximately 500 children were so accommodated from Barking during the year 1947. Hydon Heath Camp which is a National Camp for children, was used for school purposes during the war. It was staffed from Barking and mainly, although not altogether, the children at the Camp school were Barking children. To this school c... |
8669018c-0bbc-4fdc-a338-a2c4162a4242 | Any teaching about sex should be purely incidental. In nature study classes it is possible to include teaching on sexual reproduction in plants and some members of the animal kingdom. With such basic training adolescents readily appreciate any further teaching about the physiology of human reproduction—indeed this foll... |
0bf298e2-c1dd-46a4-861f-ee332a83830b | During the latter part of the year the Mobile X-ray Unit attended at the Barking Hospital where 1,387 school children were X-rayed. Because it was not possible to do all the children on this occasion it was decided to concentrate on the older children who would be leaving school at an early date. 34 SCHOOL HEALTH SERVI... |
cdbf5b40-cbd4-41cd-97d5-d15501417bc4 | Number of Special Inspections 10,531 Number of Re-Inspections 11,768 Total 22,299 C.—PUPILS FOUND TO REQUIRE TREATMENT. Number of Individual Pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspection to Require Treatment (excluding Dental Diseases and Infestation with Vermin). Group (1) For defective vision (excluding squint) (2) For... |
4cd3680c-c386-4572-91e1-7ba4728dd69e | of defects Requiring treatment (2) Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring treatment (3) Requiring treatment (4) Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring treatment (5) 4 Skin 113 12 936 8 5 Eyes a. Vision 302 15 161 11 b. Squint 34 4 61 3 c. Other 26 6 500 25 6 Ears a. Hearing 11 2 15... |
3dfa138c-8f7e-46b4-8240-e499b94242b2 | Other 9 13 6 — 13 Orthopaedic— a. Posture 26 29 11 — b. Flat foot 62 13 16 1 c. Other 115 38 61 2 14 Nervous system— a. Epilepsy 2 9 4 — b. Other 14 6 12 4 15 Psychological— a. Development 25 9 30 1 b. Stability - - 19 18 16 Other 761 104 3,913 362 36 TABLE II. B.—CLASSIFICATION OF THE GENERAL CONDITION OF PUPILS INSPE... |
f190d569-2505-4fe6-a430-e9341f9e9e9b | 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Entrants 1,786 562 31.47 1,218 68.20 6 .33 Second Age Group 2,047 672 32.83 1,371 66.98 4 .19 Third Age Group 1,700 602 35.41 1,091 64.18 7 .41 Other Periodic Inspections 3,437 1,138 33.11 2,291 66.66 8 .23 Total 8,970 2,974 33.15 5,971 66.57 25 .28 X A.=Excellent Nutrition. + B. = Nor... |
d9ced879-0ea6-4ef4-8f67-bf3908611892 | GROUP I.—MINOR AILMENT S (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see Table V). (a) Number of Defects treated, or under treatment during the year. Skin— Ringworm—Scalp— (i) X-Ray treatment 6 (ii) Other treatment 3 Ringworm—Body 13 Scabies 110 Impetigo 138 Other skin diseases 752 Eye Disease (External and other, but excludin... |
d4096a00-96de-49cc-98ff-1822b76477e2 | ERRORS OF REFRACTION (including squint) 749 Other defect or disease of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I) — Total 749 No. of Pupils for whom spectacles were (a) Prescribed 414 (b) Obtained 503 GROUP III.—TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT. Received operative treatment:— Total number treated. (a) for ad... |
e5c4b99c-e75b-4295-9c54-ed7c45e6f224 | of pupils treated (a) under Child Guidance arrangements — (b) under Speech Therapy arrangements 37 38 TABLE IV. Dental Inspection and Treatment. (1) Number of pupils inspected by the Authority's Dental Officers— (a) Periodic age groups 5,438 (b) Specials 746 (c) TOTAL (Periodic and Specials) 6,184 (2) Number found to r... |
4444c72c-0d38-4f2a-b0b4-295a6c2ad5c9 | 089 (9) Other Operations: (a) Permanent Teeth 2,851 (b) Temporary Teeth 22 Total (a) and (b) 2,873 TABLE V. Infestation with Vermin. (i) Total number of examinations in the schools by the school nurses or other authorised persons 14,280 (ii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested 460 (iii) Number of ind... |
0c611e92-71e5-4637-916c-10ceda77c93f | Bark 42 AC4411 JOHN and MARY THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1948 OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, BOROUGH OF BARKING: C. LEONARD WILLIAMS, B.Sc., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. TOWN HALL, BARKING, ESSEX November, 1949 To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Barking. Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, We are... |
a382a0ec-e635-438e-becb-7147a98d71b0 | It is to emphasise the spirit of the present age that I have made this a personal report in which I want to tell you something of the lives of John and Mary, of the problems which they brought to me, and, what is more, of their difficulties and something of their conversations with me. There are thousands and thousands... |
1cd812dc-a856-40ac-9b26-dc33c4997e49 | For the purposes of this narrative, however, all that I will say is that they were married and when they came back from their honeymoon they went to live with Mary's mother. It was not long before Mary came to the window of the Rehousing Office. She told a tale which is none the less tragic because it is so very common... |
fff4432c-a0a2-4411-a322-f0bcf2dfa4bc | Further, from he information given at the window, she realised there were many families who were not nearly so well placed as she and John were. The next thing we find is that John takes a half day from work to come to the Rehousing Office—he says exactly the same things that Mary has said but in a defin ely more empha... |
8fcaee39-8757-47a7-900c-18550b81ef57 | It is ;uite possible he does not want to be in a bad temper, but the situation at home is going from bad to worse and he has promised his wife that he will make the rehousing people " do something about it." HOUSING APPLICATIONS. Number of names on the waiting list at the beginning of the year 3,370 Number of names add... |
235ff073-7288-42a0-8d59-e8934e690705 | Of course, there are hundreds of people who have had houses and who are very well pleased with the points scheme, and there are hundreds of people who, if they haven't got all they wanted, have got something by moving into the accommodation which has been allocated to them. John put his views on housing before me very ... |
014ccd54-b38b-4f50-ab2e-c3ddf74a33ff | As a matter of fact, I was talking over with John and Mary what would be the ideal population of a neighbourhood unit, having regard to the fact that each such unit would certainly want its own Health Centre—incidentally each would want its own infants' school, pub, etc., and, of course, its own youth centre. We were, ... |
2591d39e-8678-4d83-8397-eb2f47b211fc | It seemed to us that the ideal compromsie would be to divide such a town as Barking into units of some 15,000 each, that is, there would be five such neighbourhood units in Barking with five Health Centres, one of which would be a super centre and would cater for certain specialist services, which it would not be econo... |
30831bbc-686b-4be5-b68c-6aa4dea3b8a9 | Again, too, it is important that, in order to get the necessary light and air and general ventilation, blocks of flats should be surrounded by relatively large areas of garden space, because even though children live in flats they still require space in which to play. Travelling Facilities. How small the world is—one d... |
b86a9cc7-a503-47aa-bb4a-4a198ec8ce9b | Elsewhere, and on numerous occasions I have set forth what I think about these travelling facilities and that the condition under which people travel to and from Barking is a serious factor in preventing them enjoying a proper measure of health and happiness. Whether we like it or not the main reason is that Barking is... |
6e13e20c-4a7d-4855-ae67-0251ca2236e2 | But if I am to be locked up in the Tower, I must protest that the Railway facilities to and from Barking are not only scandalous from any ordinary standpoint but they are a serious menace to the health of people and possibly contribute more to the ill-health of the people who have to use them than any other factor. Hos... |
19ef0e77-ae44-4511-a229-2e7eee0e1449 | As a matter of fact, what occurred was a new orientation towards the problem and a new chapter of hospital administration, and it is hoped that there will, in time to come, grow something which is better than we have had in the past and that the future will find a solution which perplexed so many of us before the Appoi... |
034fe4d8-fd2e-4b62-93b0-d855f0ad8ddf | As Mary was to have her baby in the Barking Hospital before the Appointed Day she was particularly interested to know what was going to happen under the new Act, and I was able to tell her that so far as could be seen at present, maternity work would be extended at this Hospital and that wards which during the War were... |
54f94ed6-de4a-4e31-8ece-d56b17b40c27 | The possibility of some immunisation being discovered for tuberculosis, comparable to diphtheria immunisation, is not so fanciful as it appeared a generation ago, but I do think it is sufficiently remote for us to say that, at this stage, hospitalisation and consequential isolation is the only way of dealing with the p... |
f1fa83e6-d03f-4436-a49b-c266957e62ab | Beds should have been provided pre-War whicl were not provided, and which are now going to cost a lot of money to build, and there are beds which are empty to-day because there are so many other opportunities open to women which, compared with nursing, are more acceptable, botl from the standpoint of remuneration and c... |
bf33f586-c082-42d7-a2e0-9f5dfbb1a3a7 | The power of the public is paramount—they alone have the right to say what money they have available and how it shall be spent, but it will always take a man with a deep appreciation and knowledge of music to become a conductor. Parks and Open Spaces. One day John asked me to address a meeting in which he was intereste... |
8e08d0d4-f909-4acb-8e5c-0f7800b2993f | Now when called upon to make such an address I always ask the most competent person I know to outline remarks for me, and in this case a colleague, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote the following notes :— Barking Park 76 acres Mayesbrook Park 116 33 Greatfields Park 14 33 Castle Green 42 33 Parsloes Park ... 14 „ i... |
f384971a-2531-4096-8c94-d1e559d81a50 | In these days of increased leisure it is important that every facility available to provide exercise in the open air should be used to the maximum and it is with satisfaction 1 notice both young and old making such excellent use of the opportunities provided by the Council in the provision of open spaces, sports buildi... |
fd855553-6d83-4589-a564-e160570b8173 | This duty arises from the provisions of Section 50 Page 7 The Health of Barking of the National Assistance Act, 1948, which provides that it shall be the duty of certain authorities, of which Barking is one, to cause to be buried or cremated the body of any person who has died or been found dead in their area, in any c... |
bafe62ae-07aa-4a9e-a61a-f61a96ebe800 | Even the best domestic help service is not adequate for some such cases and the use of the power of Section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, although drastic, must be implemented on occasions. This power enables the Council through their officers and with the authority of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction actua... |
1bc47522-d430-4686-b9a9-43d94de984ba | 66-70 years 646 813 71-75 years 367 475 76-80 years 168 275 81 years and over 61 122 Totals 1,242 1,685 Grand Total 2,927 The Health of Barking Wastage of Infant Life. This part of my Report has nothing to do with John and Mary, but I do want to record that in 1948, of the 30 deaths which occurred in Barking children u... |
1e86e013-f15d-426d-a1a3-2d287f234ef3 | I don't think there is any doubt that a high percentage of these children who die at a very early age die because they don't get enough air in their lungs. One has to remember that when a baby is born there is practically no air in the lungs at all and for all practical purposes you say there is none. In these circumst... |
e1638b8b-f569-48e0-b8a2-4951f3005c1b | While we are dealing with this morbid subject of the wastage of child life, it is necessary to continue the gloomy picture by pointing out that during the year 1948 there were no less than 29 stillbirths, a large number of which were subjected to post-mortem examination, and again I am courteously invited to attend and... |
f71465a0-4905-45d0-81f8-7e48a12864d2 | INFANT MORTALITY RATE On pages 57-58 will be found further statistics relating to infant mortality. Hospital v. Home Confinements. Mary was very worried as to whether she ought or ought not to go into hospital for her forthcoming confinement. John, who, as you know, is a practical sort of man, was all for Mary going in... |
04af4f5f-1e1c-49ba-a160-1da239d1d355 | John was quite right when he said all about the wonderful equipment and the expert supervision, but it is also true that you cannot get a number of women together in a delicate state of health without running some risk. If one of these women catches a cold it is likely the others will catch it also, and the same is tru... |
8fcc75a1-7ef1-409e-ae49-f26c72db7f4c | Incidentally, for the same reason there is much to be said for the women who are having their fifth or sixth baby going into hospital. But this leaves a gap between the first and the fifth baby, where the question is quite an open one. In practice, however, it isn't a very pressing problem because we look upon medical ... |
e60521d9-f6c5-4809-a528-1ddc4fcbf1da | I do not wish to go into what I have discussed in earlier Reports, but I am happy to be able to say that there are advances in ante-natai work quite comparable with those advances which are taking place in other Departments. We now know more fully than we have known before that a properly balanced diet is very essentia... |
771aaedd-1683-45c2-bf09-be1f2c426641 | Another advance which has been made in the past few years is what is known as examination for the rhesus factor. I got into a bit of trouble with this with John and Mary, as is set forth in the following part of my Report. . Blood Tests. When the doctor wanted to get a specimen of Mary's blood for a special examination... |
41b257ef-2d32-41e0-8a6b-c6698013fe55 | The difficulty is to explain what it is all about. In the personal interview the doctor had with Mary it was possible to explain it in the spoken word easier than it is in a statement in writing, but the gist of what the doctor told Mary is as follows, and at least the first part of the explanation is easy. The first r... |
428ef8bb-6c95-4e1f-9686-8a8a7129b5ac | Persons who have it are called Rhesus Positive and those who have not are called Rhesus Negative. If a woman who has not this substance in her blood has a child by a father who has—i.e., who is Rhesus Positive—and if the child takes after the father, then the substance (Rhesus Factor) in the child's blood inherited fro... |
87ffe718-1224-401d-9762-ed58823f9e30 | Page 11 The Health of Barking Dental Workshop. Dental Service. On one of the first visits of Mary to the ante-natal clinic she was advised by the doctor to see about her teeth, and the Health Visitor, finding that the dentist at the clinic had a spare moment, arranged for Mary to see him there and then. Fortunately Mar... |
d3f87163-5f6f-4f0f-908f-2eed81c0a9f4 | Somehow there are very great misgivings about having teeth filled, and alas how many people want to have a tooth out instead of having it filled, and anyhow people who are not so foolish as to have the tooth out will use every excuse possible for putting off the day when the filling is to be done. The dentist explained... |
aa2271eb-1cbf-4a94-8960-17490521c579 | The dentist was able to reassure her that, generally speaking, expectant mothers could be given gas almost at any time during pregnancy, although it is not highly desirable late in pregnancy. Mary, of course, wasn't the only expectant mother that came to the clinic, and in the table on this page is set out the work tha... |
faa99f34-c5cd-4e45-8ad2-90f12ceb1143 | Mothers and Toddlers Adults— Public Scheme School Children TOTAL Number of patients treated 2,163 3,908 6,440 12,511 Attendances for treatment 4,261 11,913 12,753 28,927 Extractions 2,765 7,024 5,966 15,755 Administrations of Gas 730 1,230 2,715 4,675 Fillings 1,134 1,652 6,963 9,749 Other Operations 3,256 10,142 6,271... |
1ccba02b-0628-4e4b-bcfc-773fbe16151b | In fact, dentures were supplied to nearly 200 expectant mothers. Quite frankly, this figure is far too high, and the women of Barking have got to ask themselves seriously what they can do about it. We cannot hope to do awa y with fillings and scalings and that sort of thing, but we can hope that these young people will... |
a6c99cb6-ae7c-4225-95ea-e65ac94fb871 | If, therefore, my reader gets a little gloomy when I give him or her the facts, I want them to wait until they have read all I have to say. It is no good blinding your eyes to the fact that one-sixth of all the children who died under the age of one year during 1948 were born prematurely, and that of those who died wit... |
02cdfb3f-953d-4bfe-b57b-c10b6cc5fef3 | Not only do we do this, but we also arrange ante-natal clinics in such a way that the resident obstetricians of the Barking Hospital, who will have to deal with any abnormality if it arises, do in fact take the ante-natal clinics during the latter weeks of pregnancy. Vitamins. When once Mary had got the right idea into... |
1a12bfb8-7b37-412b-8bc3-92eb46630b4a | Quite frankly, Mary didn't understand it, and nor do I. There is what is known as the London Division, a name which is applied by the Ministry of Food, and in this Division there are some 95 towns. It is quite common, when we have a report on the question of the way in which these various towns take up the special vita... |
e262c8ba-875b-4137-a4b8-82c0deac3e1a | So far as orange juice and A and D vitamin tablets are concerned only a little more than half the people take them, and with regard to cod liver oil, it is even less than half. What is difficult to explain is that what are commonly known as the '' better off " places do better than we do, e.g. places like Barnet and Be... |
4de3c60b-db4e-41c8-9f14-7d93f99d68da | One fact has occurred to me, and that is that in these other areas, although the people may be getting a little more money they, on the whole, have additional expenses and have to budget more closely than some of the people in Barking, and because of this are only too glad to avail themselves of these special foods, no... |
0c2e5465-6cb9-4a96-8810-8fa07144e268 | In the latter part of the time Mary was expecting her baby, John found that with the best will and intention in the world she could not help her mother, who was an invalid, in the same way as she had before. Personally, I have no doubt that Mary spoke to John and that John was soon finding out what could be done, but t... |
e65cb6f3-6391-4571-876e-734cb3c580a8 | These cases usually require the services of a Domestic Help for prolonged periods and constitute a majority of the cases coming within the heading " sickness cases." John had something to say about this. He put forward the idea that because so much of this work was necessary because there were not enough hospital beds,... |
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