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8a3f3627-5d4f-4c46-b69c-6b47f33318e2 | 1945 1946 1947 1948 Confinements Sickness cases 69 – 248 13 366 49 196 107 TOTAL 69 261 415 303 The Health of Barking doctors thought about it. She was a little shy at asking the doctor a direct question on the matter—it was unfortunate that she did not ask because a lot of people attending the clinics have an altogeth... |
002a0350-40b9-402d-8f34-abb9d8b010e7 | It is now 35 to 40 years ago that I was called upon to write the notes on the delivery of a baby under what was then spoken of in general terms as " twilight sleep " and even now I remember writing up that the colour of the baby when born was not healthy. What did happen, I suppose, under this form of analgesia, was th... |
b2555d6b-81ed-4fe2-b8e5-292e8e735120 | At this stage we in Barking use gas and air, the same sort of gas that is used in dentistry, and of the 518 confinements on the district, gas and air was used in 317 cases. We do not like the midwife using gas and air unless the doctor has examined the patient and said it is quite safe, and we do not like the midwife t... |
7d1ad3f5-c923-4c62-a361-28b6d60c8503 | With all this new work going on we must not forget that some of the older work is quite useful and that drugs which have been known for a very long time can be used and still do give a large measure of relief. The ideal analgesia will be one which makes the patients unconscious of pain ; it will be safe, and it will be... |
000b92d1-16f9-4acf-87f6-b7ebd7231ae8 | The four beds became occupied in about two days, and then Mary left, but she had made friends with the other people in the ward and, talking it over at the clinic afterwards, she learned that when she had left no other persons were admitted to the ward until the other three had left, and there was about two days interv... |
73987997-9f37-4bbd-8101-d3d29ea92a80 | I told John this was the system we had used in Barking for a long time. Some people call it the Boston system, because these people went to America, long after we had been using it in Barking, and had brought it back as a new system. To hear them talk about it you would think they were Christopher Colombus ! John readi... |
299cdc3f-ed28-462b-869a-67c1237eb99a | When Mary's time came to go to hospital John went round to the nearest 'phone box, which was only five minutes or so away, and he had only just got back—he got back as quickly as he could—when the ambulance appeared as though by magic. Not everything runs so smoothly as that all the time ; what had happened was that Jo... |
c55607f0-8260-4e17-a2b0-2cd073de9e5a | 1944 4,502 1945 5,532 1946 9,045 1947 12,660 1948 (January to June) 9,302 Page 17 The Health of Barking During the first half of the year there were periods when the number of vehicles available was reduced by mechanical breakdowns due to the age of the ambulances. The two new Daimler ambulances with Lomas bodies, the ... |
e1c20d40-1407-4bc7-8c90-f7504e44bcd1 | She breast-fed her baby, and perhaps, feeling a little virtuous because, of course, to breast-feed a baby is a tie, she was rather impatient, in a very nice way, with women who didn't give their children breast feeding, which is their heritage. Repeatedly, I am emphasising that civilisation only happened yesterday, fro... |
d0b5db59-1d2c-4fd7-896a-6b7cfa1900ae | Now it is true that children who are breast-fed sometimes find it difficult to get their food, and children who are artificially fed with a teat with a small hole, find it, if not harder, at least hard. But, believe it or not, I am firmly of the opinion that the child's full character can be altered by making it too ea... |
9178c549-97b9-4d12-ad90-d0ecb3d7e42c | It seems perfectly obvious that a woman who has delivered herself of a baby should take every step possible after the baby is born to find out that everything is alright with herself or, alternatively, if everything isn't alright to find out what is wrong, particularly, of course, having regard to the fact that some ti... |
f8542089-2df1-4695-8090-21f50c2b313e | We have been plugging away at the need for post-natal examinations in Barking for many years, and having regard to the fact that I was very dispirited some years ago, I do congratulate not only the women of Barking but my staff on the success we have achieved, although the success isn't up to what I can still hope it m... |
163af122-cc46-41e0-bef9-874958660962 | Mary was in seeing the doctor one day and in the ordinary course of chit-chat conversation she mentioned that she was sure a middle-aged friend of hers, who lived 1 wo doors away, was not, in all respects, so well as she might be from a woman's standpoint, and that in her opinion it was a pity she could not come to see... |
1c34dd5a-bb09-4a5a-a697-8418fc6e86da | D iring the war, when we were an Emergency Hospital of first reception it was possible to give it a fair amount of this sort of work, and if people want to dig out the figures they will have to look under the heading of gynaecology, which is the old word of a byegone language by which is designated even to this day to ... |
761d92d0-9821-466f-b571-6b7ffbaaf157 | But it is, I hope, a department of our work which we shall retain, in order that it may grow naturally when we have beds which may be made available for this very necessary part of our work. Children's Specialist. I found that Mary had a little more confidence than she should have had in her doctor at the clinic. Women... |
79db5d96-0805-4575-8bae-d9aece76e551 | He came to me one day and pointed out that, after all, these doctors are doing ante-natal work one day, school-children the next day and infant welfare clinic the next day, and also had many other things at other times, including hospital work, examining people for superannuation, etc., and that he knew they could not ... |
6fee2cd0-eaa9-45e2-93f6-1d00c104784d | Mary was clinic-minded and, apart from the post-natal clinic, there was no difficulty whatsoever in getting her to attend all the others. John was talking to me one day as to why so many of the nurses to be found at clinics were Health Visitors. I had to point out to him that health visiting was the backbone of the mat... |
9051f1ca-a0e8-49b7-8565-30b019ba2117 | of cases. 1946 329 1947 259 1948 603 Page 20 The Health of Barking I know of a child who showed no inclination to learn to read until one day quite suddenly she took it up, and within three months was reading " The Pied Piper of Hamelin." The child was six or seven years of age. In the same way these expectant mothers,... |
d760be8b-6a74-4815-964e-f45605190e87 | It is so much easier to talk about the value there is in moving air for the baby, and, believe it or not, even premature babies want moving air. When you are in a woman's own home you can show her how to open her windows and doors to get fresh air, without the risk of the child getting too cold. What is more, handling ... |
c66dd112-d4a1-401f-88a3-7eb614f52d59 | It is true that we did during 1948 upwards of 6,000 visits of this nature, and, having regard to all other activities this isn't a figure to our discredit, but I should take a lot more credit to the service as a whole if the figure were larger. As I see it the time of a Health Visitor is also taken up with regard to th... |
ed0fd551-0da5-44c0-a8fc-af0a8a63fb44 | It was John who brought up the matter to me of health centres in Barking, and I told him in a joking way, which was in fact a true history, of a very young junior clerk in our Department, a boy in the teen-age, who had been reading a lot about the Beveridge Plan, and who came to me one day to ask what was it all about.... |
d3945b6d-470e-4412-8265-73cec0ff4d61 | It was necessary that this should be so, because, of course, we have from time to time undertaken a public dental service. Incidentally, I may say we have undertaken other public medical services also. The greatest difference between the health centre of the future and our centres of the past will be that general pract... |
f4229a5f-da01-46eb-8ac6-fb49b310e529 | One day we were talking about the question of the birth-rate, because now that John and Mary had a baby they were very much interested in other people, and they thought that from their personal experience Barking was literally teeming with babies. Page 22 The Health of Barking As a matter of fact it often occurs that d... |
e12d5b59-1a7d-48c7-b408-8964e237aaf6 | Although the birth-rate in Barking was higher than that for England and Wales as a whole it was certainly less than the average for the 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, of which Barking is one, and was even less than that for the 148 smaller towns to be found in England—it was decidedly less than the birth-rate for... |
f494fbc9-b88a-4046-aee8-33fdfc87de7a | Immunisation. When Mary Ann was a month old and Mary brought her to the clinic, one of the first tilings Mary said when she went in to see the doctor was " I am not going to have Vary Ann immunised; my husband does not believe in it." 1 octors at clinics are wise to such things, and when a woman says, " My husband does... |
486ccfe6-74b5-49d9-b565-8852dbe42cd4 | England and Wales 17.9 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London 20.0 148 Smaller Towns 19.2 London Administrative County 20.1 BIRTH RATES IN BARKING, 1944-1948. 1944 ... 20.08 1945 ... 17.85 1946 ... 20.6 1947 ... 23.8 1948 ... 18.5 Page 23 The Health of Barking The upshot of the whole matter was that, at ... |
a2fc613f-2810-4354-bd77-95883ddb8faf | It would ill-behove any Medical Officer in Barking not to proclaim from the house-tops the value of environment in promoting Public Health. There can be no doubt that the abatement of over-crowding has had an enormous effect on the reduction of the incidence of disease. I refer not only to reduction in the overcrowding... |
46bbf273-8ae7-4eae-a76a-7758e4640c58 | As to whether John will be able to convince Mary, remains to be seen, but somehow I think he will and, what is more, Mary will find that the vast majority of mothers are getting their babies immunised and she won't want her baby to be at a disadvantage compared with those of other people. If anybody goes to the Public ... |
7939e6f7-2aa3-4b84-ac84-f2da3cc0c8da | Head Lice. Although Mary was not immediately faced with the problem of her baby going to school, she was already beginning to worry, as is the fashion of mothers, particularly from the standpoint of her child becoming accidentally verminous. I was able to assure Mary that there is not a lot of infestation from child to... |
74c4921d-684a-4522-909c-a369118780e6 | As I have said elsewhere, it is what I term as the "reservoirs" of infestation which are not only found amongst tousle-headed, bedraggled, incompetent housewives, who, often times should be pitied rather than blamed, but amongst smart people who, often having spent more money than they can afford, imprison their hair i... |
b08d9ad6-fa7f-4994-839c-e1046494912e | Elsewhere I have written about ophthalmia neonatorum, pointing out it is a long word and that I don't like long words where there is plain English to take its place. In this case, however, there is no other word. What ophthalmia neonatorum means is that there is inflammation of the eyes in a newly-born child, and it wo... |
5cbd0732-09f3-4b35-a854-c59f201d25fc | Although there were no less than 1,461 live births last year, there were only three cases of ophthalmia neonatorum. The point is that John's book wasn't at fault years ago, because this used to be a very devastating disease, but improved midwifery and improved child welfare, amongst other things, have almost brought to... |
4f7d409a-e6f5-4c8b-8ce6-4dcf40d99e84 | Curiously enough there was one question which was never raised either by John or Mary, and that was with regard to District Nursing. There is a reason for this, because the service has been carried out very quietly, but none the less efficiently, and apart from a very few people who are interested in its administration... |
cbd7dde6-7e7f-4a36-98cd-1b6df565acef | The former Matron of the Barking Hospital remembers the time when there was one of these nurses who used to go out to confinements and the only charge made was a fee of five shillings ! The East Barking District Nursing Association also was wound up for all practical purposes when the responsibility for home nursing in... |
30299384-251e-4e04-8b14-269d97c1c2a0 | The weather was fine and Mary was torn between conflicting emotions. She wanted to go over to see John, but she didn't want to take the baby with her, and the home circumstances were such that she didn't like asking her mother's help in minding the baby. Anyhow, she wanted to place the child into a Nursery for the day,... |
30e2b166-83be-41ef-9b9d-bcf83ca06c21 | What was more, we pointed out that although we had three Day Nurseries with accommodation for 168 children there were no less than 407 on the waiting list. This was towards the end of 1948. It is pertinent to point out, however, that plans are in hand for the conversion of the former Castle School into a Day Nursery, a... |
cae02d06-2fa7-4cde-a5d3-e6e85746e614 | Now it seems to me that although Mary may have been unreasonable in the way in which she put her case, that doesn't do away with the fact that she has a case, and that these nurseries in the future should cater not only for people who want their children looked after as a long-term policy but for parents who properly w... |
585bce14-7fda-4d01-ac06-f7b14b5d482c | Birth Control. John and Mary never did talk to me about personal things, and I must say this is a pity and it is a pity also that because they have not mentioned the matter to me, I have never had the courage to mention it to them. There can be no doubt that until the problems of birth control are discussed openly and ... |
d1f7f72f-b927-43a3-94c9-45c57d5bfa8f | Now it must be clearly understood that so far as we are concerned officially at this time, we have no authority whatsoever to deal with birth control which leads to so much misunderstanding. The only thing which we, as doctors in the Public Health Service can do to-day is to give birth control to those who require it o... |
1cecfdd4-69f4-4e38-879a-bc2a6cd12270 | Mary, like all other practical people, did object to us calling one service the "Orthopaedic" Service, but I explained to Mary, as I have explained to so many other people, that there is no ordinary name for this service and that I shall be happy when the public find another name for it. This is a service which has to ... |
3f583601-95ba-4e63-826a-b22f8aaf739f | The amount of work we did during the year is set forth on this page, but I am going to take time by the forelock and say that we have a much happier picture to paint for the year to come. ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC. Toddlers and Adults. School Children. Primary examinations by Surgeon 139 80 Re-examination by Surgeon 158 179 N... |
7969a046-b987-4cc3-a22b-a09c18bce5eb | The service caters for mothers and babies, toddlers, school-children and the general public; indeed, virtually anybody who cares to avail themselves of it. EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SERVICE. Mothers and Toddlers Adults— Public Scheme School Children TOTAL 1947 1948 1947 1948 1947 1948 1947 1948 Number of attendances at the ... |
a8ad8726-12ff-4ec3-8b28-6caf24f4e9d0 | It is a service which is very much in the public eye, and as you will see from the figures on this page, the year 1948 was a bumper year so far as the amount of work done was concerned. I would like to tell you too that the work is of a very high order of merit and very much appreciated, but I want to say also, that it... |
2156c880-1807-4129-bf7b-09c4806db0fd | "With regard to the Skin Clinic, I want to make it clear that although we have a skin clinic there are very few cases which are seen which can be stated to be suffering from diseases of the skin, because the skin is an organ of the body, and when it suffers, other organs of the body suffer also. It is very convenient t... |
aa60d695-a703-44f9-ad8b-1a60ca42dde6 | Sessions 47 132 Attendances:— Children under 5 years 255 475 , Children 5-15 years 456 2,420 Ante Natal and Post Natal Cases 189 353 Other categories (including Public Adult Scheme) 142 207 Page 30 The Health of Barking Squint Training. I have set forth to you some of the total amount of work we did during the year. Pe... |
99366a78-de94-4055-8aa3-27c060f7ab7b | New Cases Recurring Cases TOTAL Total number of patients 138 2 140 Adults 70 2 72 Children 68 — 68 Referred from:— Clinics 56 — 56 Other sources 82 2 84 Cleansed at Barking Hospital: Adults 44 1 45 Children 47 — 47 Ophthalmic Service. Mary was a rare one for ferreting out what her friends and neighbours could derive fr... |
6c0d1600-b310-42f8-964e-d33b8cb1decb | Not only do we deal with the ordinary errors of vision but we spend quite a lot of time on squint training, which, by the way, is quite time-consuming because each case requires very many treatments if it is to be of any value. TREATMENT OF DEFECTIVE VISION. Mothers and Toddlers. Adults— Public Scheme. School Children.... |
d87a309c-67e8-45ab-aa73-6bda00f2c879 | John and Mary were sitting quietly by the fire, the baby was in the bedroom and, of course, it wasn't long before they talked about what a wonderful baby it was, and it wasn't very long before Mary thought of all the dreadful diseases, which at the least would be annoying—might be dangerous and could be fatal, and John... |
53c0a686-5fad-4f5b-898b-77f9d2ab71c1 | "I wish I knew how many cases there were in Barking," said John, "because we must try to keep a sense of proportion." "There you go," said Mary, "always worrying the Medical Officer of Health." "Well, he doesn't mind," said John. Page 32 The Health of Barking So John came to see me about it. He was a little surprised, ... |
2ad3f69d-146c-4f35-b2cc-0286162055c3 | I asked a particularly well-informed person what disease she would wish was just not there, if she had only one such wish, and, being a woman and, as is a woman's prerogative, she did not answer the question I asked but said forthright "cancer and tuberculosis." CANCER Now we could expect young people to mention cancer... |
89e5c8f4-ba0c-4e2c-a214-3a8d51e2ddc8 | TUBERCULOSIS Tuberculosis, of course, also accounts for a significant number of deaths, and during the year 30 Barking people died from this disease. The table below shows the number of cases which were added to our Register during the year. To complete the picture, however, it must be stated that the names of 262 peop... |
b376d9b5-ec92-4662-94f3-0f98f07ff655 | New Cases Notified Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary TOTAL M. F. M. F. Under 1 year — — — — — 1 to 5 years 4 8 — 1 13 5 to 15 years 5 9 3 1 18 15 to 25 years 17 30 2 2 51 25 to 35 years 17 9 2 2 30 35 to 45 years 11 4 1 — 16 45 to 55 years 11 2 — — 13 55 to 65 years 5 1 — — 6 65 years and upwards 3 — — — 3 Totals 73 63 8 6 150 A... |
57487faa-177d-435b-a75c-7c66d57ba3a8 | Rheumatism can appear to be quite trivial in children; they Page 33 The Health of Barking RHEUMATISM may complain of "growing pains" and if you are careful enough to take their temperature, it is not very much raised, and yet this seemingly trivial ailment is something from which the child never fully recovers, for it ... |
833bc184-7768-4ca6-aaac-0e0398cf23d8 | Extract of a letter to John regarding Infectious Diseases: "When the other evening you asked me at a public meeting what was the present position with regard to measles, I hesitated to answer you so fully as I would like to have done because I did not want to alarm the public generally, but speaking in my plain blunt w... |
65729406-a997-4ce2-9c24-2cbf11c051c6 | This, of course, is in contrast to whooping cough, of which we had 394 notified cases last year. Here, without being over-confident, we do think the answer is around the corner, and although I would not like to say we shall be able to banish whooping cough in the same way as we have been able to banish diphtheria, I th... |
0ca1b4b1-1701-43e7-a5f3-56e1703a68d9 | "Pneumonia is still one of the problems left for us to solve because, although there were only 60 cases notified to us, there were no less than 25 deaths from all forms of pneumonia, i.e. from notifiable pneumonias and non-notifiable pneumonias. "One bright spot is that fever following childbirth (puerperal pyrexia) wa... |
fb333241-156e-43a2-8896-65243598f285 | I am, therefore, continuing this Report on more orthodox lines. Page 35 The Health of Barking ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. INTRODUCTION. I do not think in writing about the environmental health services that I can fail to direct special attention to the fact that the year 1948 is the centenary year of the first Publi... |
84d2a87a-4704-40e2-85f1-5ed75d9ef8c3 | It is interesting to quote from a description given in the Edinburgh Review of 1850 of the water used by the citizens of London:— "The refuse and dirt from two millions of individuals, the enormous accumulation of waste and dead animal and vegetable matter, the blood and offal of slaughter-houses, the outpourings from ... |
a6b6500e-974b-4abe-a85f-457c133e4e3c | There can be no doubt that the Public Health Act of 1848 was a turning point in the social history of this country because it was at this time that sanitary consciousness was first developed. From this has followed improved sanitary conditions in home, school, factory, farm and office. Your services to-day, nevertheles... |
054d9c13-081c-4895-a45c-c594efe315a0 | We not only have to deal with the amount of space required within buildings which, as I have shown above, makes a total of 570 square feet for every single individual, but during the past years we have been taught to think in terms of good planning and it is to this matter we have to pay special attention. The changes ... |
89d1e03f-7164-4d0d-9935-c12dc106b408 | Whilst in Barking the Council has built so many houses as are permissible, with the large increase now taking place a new stage has been reached and it is proper that as landlords the standards of design and maintenance should be as good as any that can be achieved. I cannot pass from environmental hygiene without maki... |
d86bbca4-590c-44d9-8946-4d4de1942d9c | The rainfall figure for the year was 22.94 inches compared with 15.92 for the previous year. Barking is fortunate in its situation in the driest part of England. All of us must learn how to take advantage of the sunlight by using the bronzing of the skin as an index of dosage; devise suitable clothing; value the clear ... |
8d013a96-28df-41f0-9ccc-ea198c0acd49 | Investigations are I know being carried out as to the losses in money suffered by residents due to this hardness, but I am more concerned with the public health aspect. From my own experience of using soft water for domestic purposes I know how much easier it is to bathe and also to wash clothing. As an aid to cleanlin... |
69a899d1-3f7a-43a8-a043-dfe8a08e8ecf | With the fall in the quantity of water passing over Teddington Weir during the periods of drought and the substantial increase in the quantity of sewage effluents discharged from the L.C.C. Works at Crossness and the Northern Outfall, conditions have deteriorated so far as to give rise to a public nuisance. The saturat... |
a22afa74-46e2-4db3-b793-0fce3a6fb487 | There are other streams and water-courses in the area controlled either by the Essex Rivers Catchment Board, or the River Roding Catchment Board, who have not commenced any works of major improvement during the year. Page 38 The Health of Barking Flooding—Victoria Road.—I am happy to record the successful conclusion of... |
6f990fdb-58b6-4a52-9138-63be90a1850f | There remains a small number of one-man trade premises at Rippleside where sanitary accommodation consists of a pail closet. The planning of this area has not yet been settled. PUBLIC CLEANSING. During the year 8,508 loads of refuse were collected with an average weight of 2.5 tons per load. The domestic refuse is stil... |
03b67b07-80eb-4bbc-82c5-199f5725fcbe | Private Refuse Tip—Essex County Council Act, 1933, Section 146.—It was necessary during the year to institute proceedings in connection with a tip at Rippleside which was in private ownership. The Defendant was fined the sum of £10 with £2 2s. costs. Secondary Streets. It has still not been possible to improve the surf... |
12d9edf5-775d-44af-bc73-f662b585c7e8 | The Housing Manager reports that in connection with Barking Corporation houses the number of premises found infested and treated was 34. The method of treatment provides for the use of insecticide containing D.D.T. In the present acute house shortage there is serious difficulty in using hydrocyanic gas. FLY NUISANCE Wi... |
9c5bff7f-c3bb-4523-84dd-f82ff40b8317 | Whilst there is still no evidence that flies are responsible for the spread of poliomyelities it is a reasonable precaution to have regard to the dangers of fly-borne disease. I cannot pass from this subject without reference to the storage and collection of waste food made by the Council at the request of the Board of... |
ab316904-a63c-425e-a1fc-8c224f94980e | Smoke knows no parish or borough boundaries, but with the huge coal consumption of the two very large utility undertakings—viz. the Generating Station of the British Electricity Board and the Gas Works at Becton, together with the additional 80 industrial and commercial chimneys—it is to be expected that the atmospheri... |
c43e95ff-b5ff-41f7-a5f2-cc6fb94a2907 | Barking Park 21.73 22.93 16.45 12.20 25.01 17.14 20.05 31.96 20.64 Greatfields Park 30.52 23.13 28.20 15.19 29.29 22.00 28.37 52.18 43.04 Parsloes Park 23.25 19.87 22.59 11.62 22.94 21.05 26.72 51.24 32.74 Page 41 The Health of Barking ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION—1948. Sulphur Dioxide by the Lead-Peroxide Method. Milligrams ... |
271a7ef1-b949-4dca-9508-57953a51be8a | Barking Park 11.0 9.8 12.8 16.8 27.1 36.2 34.6 Greatfields Park 18.0 15.3 17.7 24.9 35.0 42.5 42.9 Parsloes Park 16.0 12.5 16.8 23.7 34.5 47.1 38.7 Page 42 The Health of Barking The steep rise in the months of November and December is most noticeable. This rise is due to the substantial contribution to the total load o... |
86a976f5-a511-496e-913d-dcc1679246c6 | The experts tell us that in thirty years we shall be in the smokeless era, but if I express my doubts (in the absence of legal control for the domestic user) I must plead that as one of the domestic consumers of the 40 million tons of raw coal burnt in the grates of our homes, the open fire is still very attractive in ... |
6d9961e9-3753-43d3-bc2b-c793b7bf964c | Whilst the results on both occasions were satisfactory the evidence of heavy infestation in certain areas, most of which are in the older parts of the district, gives cause for serious thought. The following table shows the degree of infestation found to exist:— May November Number of manholes baited 403 403 Number sho... |
7b36db19-54c3-4623-ba32-80e1b4b32bae | The charge made by the Corporation for this service to factories and commercial premises is now at the rate of 4s. 3d. per man-hour. Page 43 The Health of Barking The managements of factories and business premises have continued to co-operate in this work and the general public has taken advantage of the facilities off... |
b551b1c1-6684-40bf-b52b-95fcb6df1f0c | It is pleasing to learn from the report submitted to the Council that more than half the bathers were children, and whilst this is commendable it does increase the problem of dealing with the pollution load using the present purification plant, and it is not surprising that on two occasions it was necessary to comment ... |
a0eb0a68-a64f-4e88-8d48-527d353ea397 | On pages 62-63 will be found statistics in relation to the administration of this Act. SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA. Throughout the year there continued a shortage of inspectors but the easing of the licensing restrictions enabled an increase in repair work to be carried out without quite as much difficulty as hithe... |
ccec8a1d-6e96-4a89-9131-02b4cbc336b8 | This result was achieved by some 13,000 inspections and re-inspections. It has become evident that whilst it is now easier to get repairs carried out when the defect is remediable at a cost less than £10, there is a gradual hardening of resistance by owners to notices requiring heavy expenditure. In Barking a substanti... |
08a6fff7-ebec-4d8e-a210-174e83d20655 | POST-WAR HOUSING. The housing problem is still with us and remains acute. It would be wrong to use the term chronic because I believe that with the completion of the Council's post-war building scheme substantial reduction in the large number of families awaiting accommodation will be achieved. During the year 205 new ... |
a383a420-d3a8-41aa-ab1c-fa7637231f01 | Whilst I have the usual objection to this type of dwelling for families, particularly where there are small children, I recognise the necessity and also applaud the care the Council is taking to secure that the flats now in course of erection are designed and built to overcome, so far as practicable, the difficulties f... |
9218b4b9-c1bb-4195-b7e0-e04be4aee7ea | Unfortunately, many applicants for accommodation do not realise that the medical aspect Page 45 The Health of Barking Slum Houses of 1927. Congestion and Slum Dwellings 1933. Page 46 The Health of Barking STANDARD COUNCIL ACCOMMODATION IN 1948. Living Room. Kitchenette. (Photographs reproduced by permission of the Nort... |
705dc3a5-177d-4eeb-a199-a7c0cf8c9f29 | Here I wish to plead for the early completion of the Council's housing proposals, because I look forward to the provision of the special accommodation proposed for those residents, now in the eventide of life and forced to remain imprisoned in one room without free access to sanitary accommodation or cooking facilities... |
fabb4c6d-eb4e-405e-ae26-9f71b1fe9075 | In addition constant hot water supply was available from gasheaters over sink and bath. The families in occupation of the accommodation were satisfied with this temporary rehousing at a rent of 10s. per week for two bedroom units. The number of complaints subsequently received have been few and have related to the ingr... |
50acda08-e517-4e99-934e-cc204e286af5 | Page 48 The Health of Barking The year has been significant in new health records and in this regard it is proper for the Council to take credit for the health services it has provided, including its health teaching. CLEAN FOOD CAMPAIGN—PUBLIC CONVENIENCES. In order to assist in a practical way, the Council has arrange... |
958e6a40-6c2b-4e96-b797-dec2cc622dfb | With the coming of the Heat Treatment Regulations, 1947, many improvements were effected, and by using the provisional grading of the Ministry of Health a better bacteriological picture of the quality of the ice-cream sold in the Borough was available. There are 87 premises registered and of these four only are used fo... |
5947acfb-dc9c-4a97-81f9-d0e73c566c37 | The whole of the milk distributed in the Borough is heat-treated except for about 40 gallons per day of raw designated milk. There were, during the year, 71 samples of milk submitted to biological examination for the presence of tubercle. In three cases the guinea pig died prematurely. In no case was there a positive r... |
92a352f8-97c2-4f16-8fdf-8d459d0bb397 | The rapid expansion of what can be described as the meals service, embracing factory canteens, schools canteens, municipal and private restaurants, has led to new problems. In general your officers have acted upon a standard of sanitary considerations in the kitchens as follows :— (a) Adequate lighting for the job; (b)... |
e5614ae2-79ed-47f3-ae94-2b304ba54628 | In no field of a sanitary inspector's work is it made clearer that the job is primarily educative rather than penal, and it is in this way that sanitary inspectors are doing their most effective work. Unsound Food. On page 66, a table is given showing the total quantity of food condemned. FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938—SAMPL... |
c079819c-81d6-4f8d-827c-cc38fcef6466 | Lemonade Powder.—The attention of the Ministry of Food was called to the preparation and sale of what were described as lemonade or sherbet powders, which, upon chemical examination, were found to bear more resemblance to effervescing health salts, and were being sold to children. Some of these confections were put up ... |
6c312d24-301e-469e-90c3-64e35a406c0a | An appreciable amount of alarm was caused to mothers of young children because of the distinct staining of lips and tongue by the yellow dye used in the manufacture. Sausages. The detection of horse-flesh in sausages has always been a difficult problem, but during the year the Borough Analyst reported that by using a n... |
9b25681e-76f4-453a-baf5-c9a60c15829e | Two prosecutions were instituted in relation to bread which was unsound, owing the presence of cockroaches. In one case there was a fine of £20 with £2 2s. costs and in the second case a fine of £5. FOOD POISONING. Only eight cases of food poisoning were notified during the year, but I do not feel that this represents ... |
27b65d3d-b664-4d3a-915c-f359552ebdd6 | It is not suggested that even with the strict operation of the Street Trading Bye-laws the same standard of hygiene can be maintained as in established shops. I look forward to the time when available food supplies distributed from the established shops will be sufficient for all purposes. FOOD MARKETS. There are two c... |
b6d363d4-704a-41bf-8b47-33e9bd6ca945 | The bacteriological examination of all milk and water supplies and the chemical examination of water supplies is carried out for this Authority by the Counties Public Health Laboratories, 66, Victoria Street, London, S.W.I, whilst the examination of samples of milk for the presence of tubercle is carried out by Dr. A. ... |
37bc5911-839e-4557-a78c-8773d846d898 | Population (1931 Census) 51,277 Population (June, 1948) (Registrar-General's Estimate) 78,890 Number of Inhabitated Houses, March, 1948, according to Rate Books:— Houses 19,778 Shops 1,370 Total 21,148 Rateable Value—General £570,125 Sum represented by Id. rate, 1948/49 £2,000 General Rate, 1948/49 21/4d. Education Rat... |
7b65f6f1-f429-4177-bafa-107913c86be9 | Live Births :— Total Males Females Legitimate 1,409 717 692 Illegitimate 52 27 25 Totals 1,461 744 717 Still-Births :— Legitimate 27 14 13 Illegitimate 2 1 1 Totals 29 15 14 Live and Still-Births 1,490 759 731 Live Birth Rate per 1,000 of Estimated Population 18.5. Still-Birth Rate per 1,000 (Live and Still) Births 19.... |
63964f23-b8ee-48fa-a71d-367c7101db5a | Analysis of Deaths:— Cancer 135 Tuberculosis 30 Measles 1 Whooping Cough 1 Diphtheria 1 Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 2 Maternal Mortality:— Deaths from Puerperal Sepsis — Deaths from other Maternal Causes 1 Rate per 1,000 total (Live and Still) Birth 0.60 Infant Mortality:— Death Rates of Infants under one year of age:— A... |
d0400435-b3ba-4660-95c2-dfb818796015 | Enteric Fever — Cerebro-spinal Fever — Scarlet Fever — Whooping Cough 1 Diphtheria 1 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 28 Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2 Syphilitic Diseases 4 Influenza 2 Measles 1 Acute Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis 1 Acute Inf. |
204ab0df-8e76-47ed-9ec4-3b0b9e2729e6 | Encephalitis — Cancer (all forms) 135 Diabetes 5 Intra-cranial Vascular Lesions 56 Heart Diseases 129 Other Diseases of Circulatory System 33 Bronchitis 37 Pneumonia 25 Other Respiratory Diseases 7 Ulcer of Stomach or Duodenum 12 Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 2 Appendicitis 2 Other Digestive Diseases 10 Nephritis 8 Materna... |
2ba7a44a-7fef-4a69-8f7d-2380f1abf351 | 3 70 65 1929 53.4 79 74 1930 61.3 64 60 1931 64.4 71 66 1932 53.4 69 65 1933 55.6 67 64 1934 56.7 63 59 1935 52.2 62 57 1936 56.07 63 59 1937 53.8 62 58 1938 39.5 57 53 1939 33.91 53 50 1940 32.98 61 56 1941 36.3 71 60 1942 35.68 59 49 1943 37.2 58 49 1944 28.35 52 46 1945 38.56 54 46 1946 32.79 46 43 1947 31. |
a4b76027-eeef-44dc-8279-d9ebf1627bbc | 35 47 41 1948 20.53 39 34 Page 57 The Health of Barking INFANT MORTALITY—1948. Age in Months at Death. 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10 10-11 11-12 Total Prematurity 5 — — — — — — — — — — - 5 Congenital Malformation 4 — — — — — — — — — — — 4 Birth Trauma 1 — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Caesarean Sectn. |
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