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dcac6aec-845a-4c97-a6a5-d93ded143b7a | 1 — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Erythroblastosis Foetalis 1 — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Acute Hepatitis 1 — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Abandoned 1 — — — — — — — — — — — 1 Pneumonia 1 2 — 1 — — 1 — 1 — — — 6 Bronchitis, Acute — 1 — — — — — — — — — — 1 Gastro Enteritis — 2 — — — — — — — — — — 2 Acute Primary General Peritonitis — 1 — —... |
eb40faad-6f77-41bb-892b-52c04ba07616 | — — — — — — — — 1 Intussesception — — — — — 1 — — — — — — 1 Encephalitis — — — — — — 1 — — — — — 1 Convulsions — — — — — — — — — 1 — — 1 Totals 15 6 3 1 - 1 2 - 1 1 — — 30 Page 58 The Health of Barking DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION IN RELATION TO CHILD POPULATION. Number of children at 31st December, 1948, who had completed ... |
3431f735-cbf7-4942-bbb7-0c33736713ab | Age at 31.12.48 Under 1 year 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5-9 years 10-14 years Total i.e., Born in Year 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1939/43 1934/38 Under 15 Number immunised 48 1,104 1,026 807 975 4,346 4,961 13,267 Estimated mid-year child population 1948 Children under 5 7.041 Children 5-14 11,369 Page 59 The Health ... |
12905660-e9a8-4da6-a028-8f9195ca6eb5 | Total Houses inspected under Public Health or Housing Acts 3,226 Total Number of Inspections made 8,595 After Infectious Disease and Scabies 610 Overcrowded Premises 437 Defects Found 2,706 Notices Served (Preliminary) 1,507 Re-Inspections re Notices Served 4,713 Inspection of Work in Progress 231 (ii) Premises Control... |
bc2c4b16-a813-4445-bae0-13c5e7db2b2b | Bakehouses 23 14 8 Butchers' Premises 272 71 41 Drainage Inspections 191 118 78 Fishmongers 79 31 22 Food and Drugs Act, 1938 933 276 153 Food Sampling 303 — — Ice Cream Vendors 165 52 36 Page 60 The Health of Barking Inspections. Defects. Notices. |
82def7a7-fc50-43ba-a594-ffd9bfda28cb | Milk Sampling 144 — — Other Miscellaneous 350 4 2 Piggeries 14 — — Public Lavatories 20 3 3 Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 238 48 46 Restaurants, Dining Rooms and Canteens 333 105 59 Schools 33 — — Shops Act, 1934, and Markets 683 155 85 Stables and Stable Yards 50 5 3 Street Traders 110 10 7 Vacant Land and Ref... |
605ad410-e7e8-4ef0-92e2-98362b5e695a | Informal Notices 1,507 Statutory Notices :— Public Health Act, 1936 : Section 39 103 Section 45 56 Section 83 — Section 93 364 Housing Act, 1936 : Sections 9 and 10 41 Section 24 — Section 32 — Factories Act, 1937: Section 7 2 Dustbins : Public Health Act, 1936 : Section 75 (3) 425 Total 991 Page 61 The Health of Barki... |
f03c0ad9-5121-4152-87ae-ad4fff660927 | Premises Number on Register Number of Inspections Written notices Occupiers prosecuted (i) Factories in which Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are to be enforced by Local Authorities 73 38 6 - (ii) Factories not included in (i) in which Section 7 is enforced by the Local Authority 171 272 46 - (iiii Other Premises in which Se... |
91534eb0-fa05-436e-8879-28c16403a428 | Inspector By H M. Inspector Want of cleanliness (S.l) 4 4 - - - Overcrowding (S.2) — — — — - Unreasonable temperature (S.3) - - - - - Inadequate ventilation (S.4) 3 3 — — Ineffective drainage of floors (S.6) - - - - - Sanitary Conveniences (S.7) (a) Insufficient 12 9 - — (b) Unsuitable or defective 42 34 - 1 - (c) Not ... |
8e3e2589-3c45-44f7-87e6-60251a3c5e0b | Section 110: Number of out-workers in August List required by Section 110 (1) (c) 135 Nature of work carried out by out-workers:— Making of wearing apparel 112 Cleaning and washing of wearing apparel — Umbrellas, etc. 2 The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or partially of paper 16 Brush... |
ea36874b-6b9b-490e-9216-96a8dd8de7c2 | (i) Number of dwellings provided in Barking during 1948:— By the Barking Corporation: New houses 205 Rebuilt houses 39 Prefabricated bungalows — Total 244 By the London County Council: Rebuilt houses 5 Prefabricated bungalows 40 Total 45 By Private Enterprise: New houses 6 Rebuilt houses 86 Total dwellings provided 381... |
f7554fe4-5bf0-4f29-8a75-44ed17225d03 | Paul's Flats (Conversion of Civil Defence Depot) 11 Thames Road Hutments 54 Hutments for homeless 50 Hutted Camps 113 Requisitioned properties 455 Rebuilt requisitioned properties 5 Total 1,290 By the London County Council: Rebuilt houses 173 Prefabricated bungalows 337 Total 510 By Private Enterprise: New houses 23 Re... |
cd6989e7-bbc7-4996-a535-40586273181e | (1) (a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 3,226 (b) Number of inspections made for the purpose 8,595 Page 64 The Health of Barking (2) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitatio... |
81bb6065-f747-4e30-a3bd-bdba8aea3c13 | 1936:— (1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were served requiring repairs 41 (2) Number of dwelling-houses which were rendered fit after service of formal notices:— (a) By owners 18 (b) By local authority in default of owners 9 B.—Proceedings under Public Health Acts:— (1) Number of dwelling-houses... |
63c905fd-ef38-4cfd-a582-e26ef0ae94f6 | —Proceedings under Section 12 of the Housing Act, 1936:— (1) Number of separate tenements or underground rooms in respect of which closing orders were made - (2) Number of separate tenements or underground rooms in respect of which closing orders were determined, the tenement or room having been rendered fit E.—Number ... |
cf87f278-3b06-4a7a-b117-1a1e40ff3244 | Bread, Flour, Biscuits, etc. 22 lbs. Butter ½ lb. Cakes 56 lbs. Cereals, Various 219 lbs. Cheese 405 lbs. Confectionery 31 lbs. Cooking Fat 10 lbs. Dried Fruit 67 lbs. Dried Milk 2 tins Fish 220 tins Fish 2,816 lbs. Fish Cakes 60 lbs. Fruit 218 tins Jam 404 lbs. Meat 1,105 lbs. Milk 1,008 tins Peas 236 tins Pepper 112 ... |
e56056b3-174c-437d-8990-55370caecf45 | Page 66 The Health of Barking FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938—SAMPLES SUBMITTED FOR EXAMINATION—1948. Baking Powder 3 Beer 15 Beverages (Tea, Coffee, Cocoa) 5 Bun Flour, Cake Mixtures 8 Butter 15 Cooking Fat 14 Custard Powder 8 Date Puddings (Tinned) 2 Edible Oil 1 Flour (Self-Raising) 2 Fish Paste 3 Gravy Powder 1 Ice Cream ... |
9f1f13c9-d99f-4334-a530-60e5e3639d66 | 15 Sausages and Sausage Meat 14 She bet-Type Confections 6 Soups (Tinned) 3 Spices 4 Various Fillings 13 Vinegar 6 Wine, Spirits 9 Total 296 Page 67 The Health of Barking TABLE OF CONTENTS SOCIAL CONDITIONS, STATISTICS AND GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 32-33 Maternity Hospital 17 Ag... |
e3cc993b-9d71-4e39-a181-926d928963d7 | Analgesia in Midwifery 15-16 Section 50 Ante-Natal Services 10-11 Neighbourhood Units 4 Birth Control 27-28 Neo-Natal Mortality 9 Birth Rate 22-23 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 25 Blood Tests 11 Ophthalmic Service 31-32 Breast Feeding 18 Orthopaedic Service 28-29 Cancer 33 Parks and Open Spaces 7 Children's Specialist 20 Pemph... |
131b8323-6557-48cb-a717-f3a71ffcf0a5 | Nose and Throat Service 29 Scabies 31 Flats 4-5 Scarlet Fever 34 Gynaecology 19-20 Skin Clinic 30-31 Head Lice 24-25 Squint Training 32 Health Centres 21-22 Still Births 9 Health Visitors 20-21 Tonsils and Adenoids 29 Hospital and Home Confinements 9-10 Travelling Facilities 5 Hospital Facilities 5-7 Tuberculosis 6, 33... |
bbea4c27-8a93-4a80-94ea-151b76c0c307 | Clean Food Campaign 49 1919, and Infestation Order, Clearance Areas 45 1943 43-44 Climatic Conditions 37 Refuse Disposal 39 Drainage and Sewerage 39 Rehousing Programme 45 Factories Act, 1937 44 Rivers and Streams 38-39 Flooding 39 Sanitary Circumstances of the Fly Nuisance 40 Area 37-45 Food Markets 53-54 Secondary St... |
1cf6bf44-52fb-4083-8f36-8768f268176a | GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS:— Area 54 Population 54 Inhabited Houses 54 Shops 54 Rateable Value 54 Vital Statistics:— Births 54 Deaths 55 DEATHS (NET) 1948 (Causes and Totals) 56 COMPARATIVE INFANT MORTALITY RATES 57 INFANTILE MORTALITY—1948 58 DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION 59 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES:— (.A) SANITARY I... |
5016e79d-19a3-4535-b8bf-fecc63d5c702 | Ac 4411(1) BARK 80 Question: Why should I read this book? Answer: In the first place, perhaps you are interested in the health of the children of Barking, which I think is a very good reason for reading the book. In the second place, if you are not interested in the health of the children of Barking you ought to be, an... |
b6e58c77-64cb-48a5-b040-af8db6f3aa75 | It is my earnest wish that whilst, on the one hand, the book may appeal to a wide reading public, the student shall find all the information which would be found in a more formal report. Indeed, I go so far as to hope that many people who would not ordinarily read the statistics at the end (and these, after all, are th... |
4240ae15-19f2-4144-97a0-5080a59da24b | The School Medical Service was started in 1907 and it certainly was a Medical Service—when the health of the nation was bad and, as for the children, it looked as though it was going to be worse—but a lot of water has flowed along the river since 1907 and what was then a Medical Service has for many years been a Health... |
20dabf99-0572-4d71-af71-eeebea1cc89c | Answer:—In Barking we aim at examining school children once every year— it has not been possible quite to achieve this (to my mind) necessary survey, but last year we were not very far short from it because we examined 9,897 children out of a possible 12,800. Question:—Are our School Doctors in Barking actually reducin... |
93fdd621-3f0b-478b-aa73-cba96fa17225 | We, as doctors, are apt to sing the praises of many new treatments—penicillin, and so forth—which are available to-day and which were not available in days of old and, of course, there is something to be said for this, but by far the greatest advance which is being made is largely due to the increased care and attentio... |
f37fe9b0-a787-4675-b9fe-218a7fa6f989 | School medical inspection is not, of course, the proper occasion on which to go into these problems, and in designing the Clinic of the future we shall want certain rooms set aside, with a much more homely atmosphere than the present surgery, where father and mother, and sister a ad brother, can meet together and talk ... |
02db66cb-50e1-41cd-8517-cb6011f73954 | Perhaps it is not practicable at this stage to deal with this matter in our older schools but on the other hand perhaps it is, and, quite frankly, I think the idea of children having to cross windswept playgrounds to frozen lavatories is so out of date that something should be done, and that right early. As a matter of... |
3d47f273-bac6-4a5a-897a-94309674139b | It appears to me that in the most impressionable years of their lives children should not have to see foodstuff's prepared or served except under conditions comparable with those which obtain in a well-managed household. NUTRITION Question:—How does the general condition of children compare as between schools in differ... |
7920508f-8a16-4747-b737-3e34ed31ab16 | For the rest of the schools it is surprising that the results of investigations are remarkably consistent and the thing which strikes me is that these results are remarkably consistent even though we have had a wide diversity of people undertaking the work. Some of my older friends will remember during the war I pointe... |
8db7c00a-2f42-4a14-b69f-532fa9be240c | General Condition of School Children Good 38.90% Fair 60.67% Poor 0.43% 6 There can be no doubt that old men like myself, and men not so old, who were brought up to rely on the high proportion of meat in our diet do feel it a great disadvantage in these days when we cannot get the proportion of meat to which we have be... |
1d930c95-96e5-4596-b4bb-96aef677c48d | Answer:—So much is being done at this time to benefit the health of children that it can only be a matter of opinion as to whether this or that item is of particular benefit; but we have no intention of leaving this or that out in order to find out, perhaps bitterly, whether we are right or wrong. My own opinion, and I... |
982362cc-6079-489f-9051-ba6c7d6f9126 | I remember a friend of mine who is interested in dietary, and he chose fowls for the subject of his experiments; he found that a very simple enquiry required no less than thirteen different sets of experiments and I remember hearing about this task when he was about half way through, and what struck me was that he woul... |
ab08d235-7d9b-413f-9ca8-0eb4827401f4 | Answer:—No toddler is too young to be taken to the dentist. If his teeth require treatment, then the sooner the better; if on the other hand the teeth are all right, then nothing is lost by a visit, for it will have been a good chance of making friends with the dentist and starting off a habit of regular attendance. We... |
2ab2b495-78d3-4591-be81-4f864cce8b6d | Answer:—Ideally this should be done every six months, or at the least, once a year. So long as we are ignorant of all the causes of dental decay it remains necessary to be eternally vigilant. The first small hole—little more than a speck—may be tucked away in some cranny and unless the dentist with his mirror and probe... |
053c166d-f663-4b53-978e-e4ef3f5325bf | DENTAL TREATMENTS Fillings: Permanent teeth 5,331 Temporary teeth 1,632 Extractions: Permanent teeth 1,748 Temporary teeth 4,218 Other Operations: Permanent teeth 6,241 Temporary teeth 30 Answer:—Definitely "NO"! Temporary teeth have a permanent value and they must be preserved until the time when the bigger permanent ... |
4fa39773-2370-41cc-bec5-24442f06b7b1 | Just as a good gardener or nurseryman prunes, supports and tends his young shrubs and plants, so a good dentist watches over the growth of the child's teeth and jaws. Direct action is not always necessary, for in all he treats the dentist considers the growth of the whole mouth. Every extraction he makes, every tooth h... |
e4d8764f-6fc5-4b4b-a9e2-bae3c9187269 | Minor degrees prevent proper biting and chewing and may lead to dirty and carious teeth and even poor digestion. Major degrees, such as protruding front teeth, are often the cause of much unnecessary misery as a child grows into self-consciousness. The whole personality of a child can be stunted and warped by unsightly... |
df6f8408-704a-4c92-a96d-abcbb9575876 | Most of the patients need their eyes tested for glasses and this, if carefully done, is a time consuming procedure. You are fortunate in Barking in that your children do obtain good care and skill. The waiting time for obtaining spectacles has, we are sorry to say, been very long. The matter is under consideration, how... |
6e0a4c4f-7847-43d3-91cd-ed510f27327b | In course of time this " lazy eye " (as it is called) in order to avoid seeing double, not only " looks the other way " but gives up looking altogether and gradually loses or suppresses all power of vision. It is to prevent this loss of vision that it is so important to begin treatment as early as possible, and I am ha... |
b267eb4d-f9f6-48a2-9d97-fbfaa7f5196d | DEFECTIVE VISION Total Treatments for: Errors of Refraction 825 Other Eye conditions 595 PROVISION OF SPECTACLES Total prescribed 493 Total obtained 453 ORTHOPTIC CLINIC New Cases 131 Total attendances 1,309 Number of Sessions 145 9 As we have described in previous reports, treatment for squint usually involves first, ... |
d0275304-7067-4a8b-b04f-5bf0ba0c7afc | In some cases where it is not possible to control the squint by exercises alone, it may be necessary when the child is older to correct any deformity by delicate operation on the eye muscles. TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Question:—What are Tonsils and Adenoids? Can we do without them? Answer:—The Tonsil... |
1cecab65-d131-4195-832a-d4ac8a27998c | The table inset shows the number of sessions and the number of new cases seen by Mr. F. Courtenay Mason, F.R.C.S., Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, throughout the year. Question:—What are the indications for removing tonsils and adenoids? Answer:—The two main reasons are:— 1. Chronic obstruction. 2. Chronic inf... |
2edf631c-3519-436c-9664-4453ee3daae5 | Not only is it unsightly to see a child with a gaping mouth, but the whole shape of the face may be altered. A high arched palate, protruding front teeth and a drooping lower jaw are not a pleasant sight for fond parents and may, indeed, cause much self-conscious misery to the child itself. Moreover, air is meant to en... |
84304f97-76ad-427b-ac1e-75bc3539c1a8 | Frequent attacks of tonsillitis which have never properly cleared up; persistent earache or discharge; persistent running nose, or sinus infection and frequent chest trouble, may all point to the need in certain cases for the tonsils and adenoids to be removed. Question:—Do surgeons always remove both tonsils and adeno... |
15759379-e0b9-4cf6-ba5f-cf400f24b082 | What happens is that the children in the class are each given a one-sided earphone; this is connected to a gramophone record; the gramophone record recites a series of numbers decreasing in loudness, and the children copy down these numbers on a piece of paper so long as they can hear them and so long as their interest... |
1837e824-bb73-46ba-8a64-e0e1260457aa | Meanwhile I am happy to say that by means of School Medical Inspections, where every child's hearing is tested, and having regard to the fact it is my experience that teachers in Barking are very wide-awake to every possibility of defects interfering with a child's progress at school, the parents of school children in ... |
c8e73ca4-da91-48a0-ba62-295b2e1ccbbb | Every now and then, however, one does come upon a boy or girl where the mother has perhaps not realised the seriousness of letting a discharging ear go on without treatment. To these mothers I would say we are most anxious that they should bring or send their child to one of our Minor Ailment Clinics in the morning, wh... |
d2a0022b-ff3e-4230-8f4a-b1aaf6687b49 | The Orthopaedic Surgeon has a great deal to do with feet, which are very much abused by us when we walk on hard surfaces; and when we wear shoes which are not the right shape, which are not the right size and which are not (very often) made of the right material. The Orthopaedic Surgeon deals with every such similar di... |
dc26eae4-7ae3-47e9-8b1d-9a9dfb0690a1 | For easy reference I want to give this arch a name and will call it the longitudinal arch. Incidentally, if you look very carefully— particularly on the ball of the foot—you will find that at right-angles to this longitudinal arch there is another arch from side to side, and if we call the first one the longitudinal ar... |
3370bf43-7449-4faf-9035-cc30dcd13975 | This can, and does, give the appearance of a flat foot and this trouble is very real and quite common. The main cause of this defect is lack of muscle tone and is particularly likely to occur when children are growing fast or when they are run down after an illness. It does not matter what the defect is—whether it is t... |
f596295d-44f9-46ec-a1be-f7955cd79af1 | When first I began to think out an answer I could not help wondering what on earth bunions had to do with school children because, whilst we cannot say no child has ever had a bunion, I certainly cannot remember one that did. A bunion is an inflamed, swollen joint, between the great toe and the ball of the foot; in som... |
0aa8ec9d-ff83-4a33-b400-858035c19edf | I have been told that Henry VIII wore shoes with bulging toes because he had deformed toes and that his courtiers followed suit. In these days I wish some child prodigy of the screen was, for this reason, or that, constrained to wear shoes with plenty of room for the toes. These would, of course, look strange to us at ... |
39c9284c-84f1-48f2-8bc3-01d07f650d84 | Much new equipment has been purchased and the department now compares not unfavourably with that of the best hospitals. Children, of course, only form a fraction, though an important fraction, of the patients treated. Many attend for courses of artificial sunlight treatment. There is no doubt, especially during the win... |
a979f32f-305f-48fa-9231-66411c295566 | Apart from these routine types of treatment many other individual children have been treated in one way or another for such conditions as old fractures, stiff necks, bow legs, knock-knees and infantile paralysis. In June special sessions were started for those children who suffer from various degrees of spastic paralys... |
5ef30808-067f-4afa-abad-4e25e334061a | treatments given 3,478 Total Number of other treatments given 4,941 (i.e. Electrical, Massage, Plaster, Remedial Exercises). 14 FOOT CLINICS Question:—What facilities are there for looking after the feet of school children in Barking? Answer:—At all school medical inspections special attention is given to the feet. Eve... |
15adaf57-61f4-46ce-8ad2-6b5208ebb820 | Question:—What are you doing about warts? Answer:—Warts may be divided into two classes; there are the unsightly warts which we find usually on people's hands, and there are the plantar warts which occur on the soles of the feet. It is, however, of the plantar wart which I now particularly write. This is sometimes mist... |
a29b6797-5429-4ee5-b808-41ff35c0bd52 | FOOT CLINICS Number of cases treated j 629 Total Number of treatments given 1,757 PLANTAR WARTS Treated at Foot Clinics 223 Treated at Wart Clinic 321 Average Number of attendances per case 3 While I am talking about this question I may as well say that last year " I got into hot water." To my mind plantar warts are de... |
bdb695d8-2437-4d18-9b99-4b95dca1d088 | 15 THE CULPRITS Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of PUNCH 16 DIFFICULT CHILDREN Question:—What have you to say this year about so-called "difficult children" ? Answer:—The cartoon on the opposite page is reproduced with the kind permission of the proprietors of "Punch". This cartoon teaches, on one small pag... |
f46d4f3c-a3d1-4e97-ab82-04294105e7da | Only when we are able to face the tragic truth that we grown-ups are at fault are we likely to get to grips with the problem of children who, by reason of our mistakes and our sins, find themselves in unhappy circumstances. 17 SPEECH THERAPY Question:—Is stammering hereditary ? Answer:—NO ! Stammering is not directly h... |
cf95e934-2189-46ab-bf08-e7bc3530b0b7 | SPEECH THERAPY New Patients 34 Total attendances 859 Number of sessions 175 Stammering is a symptom of an underlying lack of self-confidence which may become a habit and which, curiously enough, affects boys more commonly than girls. Treatment, therefore, consists broadly in re-establishing general self-confidence and ... |
ef50d85d-4c8d-452f-8998-988026262b37 | Because I use the words "Children's Specialist" no-one should think we have not a Paediatrician in Barking. Children's Clinic Number of new cases seen 60 Total number of attendances 153 When I was a young man Children's Specialists were very schooled in the diseases of children, and much of the literature that Children... |
add9ef9f-c14b-400a-a895-89858a4fde58 | I like to think that in the new order of things, some of the Iron Curtain which divided one aspect of medicine from another, will be broken down, and I believe that this must inevitably come to pass, in spite of the efforts of some people who are trying to rebuild this Iron Curtain. 18 INFECTIOUS FEVERS Question:—What ... |
98b1061c-1de7-4eff-aabf-e1676089c080 | In this same year there were no less than 22 deaths. Now deaths from Diphtheria are so infrequent that we cannot comment upon them because somebody would know the actual cases of which we should be writing. Deaths from Diphtheria (all ages) Year Number Year Number 1929 4 1939 2 1930 — 1940 1 1931 7 1941 — 1932 5 1942 —... |
b190267f-cacf-4098-8cf9-a6a1a732291f | There is every indication, however, that, in the near future, with advances in technique, immunisation may be begun earlier and discontinued earlier than formerly. DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION Number of immunised school children 9,307 Percentage of school population immunised 72.71 Whooping Cough.—For many years now we have... |
2de94949-7ab5-4696-93be-73ade0120ea7 | With regard to Meningitis among children we have so few cases that it is not practical to make any deductions but we do not include Meningitis yet as one of the victories of Public Health, although on the other hand there has been a very considerable victory so far as curative medicine is concerned. This dread disease ... |
9ddb4bfc-32ab-45cc-acd7-fd3c02993f98 | Incidentally, of course, it does interfere considerably with school life and if we are to tackle it properly it is going to interfere still more with school life. There is no denying that the common childhood infections are still a serious problem in the amount of school time wasted and the protracted ill-health they c... |
418b068b-5b85-48b4-88b2-d7c0106d3b84 | NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Measles 335 88 441 217 264 523 Whooping Cough 94 173 17 54 85 116 Scarlet Fever 253 85 58 101 71 84 Diphtheria 9 4 10 3 4 7 Question:—Vaccination against Smallpox is no longer compulsory. Why don't you bother about Smallpox now ? Answer:—Oftentimes I hav... |
bf59b067-3f49-40ed-9232-907a526f00e4 | What I have felt for a long time and what I am very happy to find is now recognised, is that voluntary vaccination with the co-operation of enlightened public opinion is the real answer to our problem, and not mass vaccination during infancy. Several deadly outbreaks of imported Asiatic Smallpox have occurred in recent... |
6a769f12-7bde-41e3-91be-d6b2512e784b | This does not mean I am suggesting to parents that they should not have their children vaccinated, because whilst the protection for such vaccination only lasts a matter of some years it almost invariably means that when these people come to be vaccinated in later life they have much less disability than if they are va... |
e8b01b85-84c1-4ee0-b5a2-eba40d1db47a | SKIN DISEASES Question:—Why are skin troubles so common in children ? Answer:—Quite frankly I cannot help people asking this question and I know they ask it in all good faith, but the fact is that skin trouble is not common in children; that is, certainly not to an old man like myself who can remember the conditions wh... |
99dfff12-5094-4692-b8c3-cc656d7900c9 | In the same way girls, at even an early age, are very conscious of what I believe is properly termed the "latest hair-do," and I do believe that this fashion of the hair has meant a great improvement in the physical condition of the scalp. So also the fact that girls are going about with bare legs, and sometimes bare f... |
bd493bcf-0a8d-4f8f-b801-9536ce8fae4b | SKIN DISEASES Number of cases treated 1946 1947 1948 Ringworm: Scalp 7 9 3 Body 19 13 9 Scabies 231 110 32 Impetigo 257 138 93 Others 1,011 752 776 Totals 1,525 1,022 913 To be kept healthy the skin requires that it should be in the most natural conditions possible and in England we do not get sufficient fine weather t... |
46bd4c4c-6c34-49fb-b957-7df98ba2d1bb | 21 In certain foreign parts, particularly where cattle and sheep are reared (such as Australia) worms, or at least certain larval stages in their development, may be picked up from too intimate contact with dogs. This, however, is not at all likely to occur in England and certainly not in Barking. Even so, it is never ... |
009473a3-8d9a-4f2f-b406-a9d650b7235f | Lousy heads, generally speaking, come from other lousy heads. Nor is this necessarily a disadvantage for every head cleansed means the prevention of further infestation, though, of course—contrariwise—every dirty head in a family, not cleansed, perpetuates the trouble. In my last report I did point out how I have great... |
afe58f0c-7587-4b66-a8c0-6866a998652d | Answer:—There are officially eleven categories of children handicapped in one way or another who require special educational facilities, in some cases at special schools. In Barking we have one special school (namely Faircross). The PhysicallyHandicapped and Open-Air Sections include physically handicapped children (su... |
25f35a00-5a00-45a0-8a87-cd1d2e112142 | 22 During the year 24 other delicate and debilitated school children were sent for varying periods to Boarding Open-Air Schools, and 19 were recommended for convalescent treatment. During 1948 there were only two blind children in Barking who needed special schooling and they were both away at special Residential Schoo... |
8533c204-1cfe-46c1-b110-16a134cd6275 | When I was a boy and children complained of aches and pains in the arms and legs, their parents put them off by saying that they were only "growing pains." Not only can we say that growing pains are not due to growing and oftentimes are not very painful, but sometimes it is these little pains that are by no means painf... |
73b2e37d-f48f-4602-89f1-b19df9fbe174 | Now this I have written to show how important even trivialities can be, but I want to say something on the opposite side. Many people, when they hear that their child has anything wrong to do with the heart, immediately think that the child should be wrapped in cotton wool. Now this is not the case. The heart has a tre... |
cb1b7834-1124-447a-bc8c-3e4992dd9714 | Answer:—Most of the children with asthma are under their private doctor or attending a hospital for advice and treatment. While no cure can be guaranteed in this distressing complaint a good deal to afford relief can be done in the way of treatment and, of course, some patients get better by themselves. Our Physiothera... |
7384c194-b7d8-4b11-ab7a-c3f15348e3dd | OPEN-AIR EDUCATION Question:—If Open Air Schools are good for delicate children, would they also be good for normal children ? Answer:—I am told by people who grudgingly admit that there ought to be maximum fresh air, that this fresh air should be so limited that the children, and the teachers too, should never feel co... |
6e3c7545-0ef7-43a8-85f9-061ef40a2498 | I want to see a curriculum so devised that the children will have an opportunity of moving about when they want to and sitting down when they want to, and if this were achieved we should find that much had been done towards the "bogey" that, of necessity, proper ventilation means that the child will be too cold. The an... |
bdbc01fd-c1e5-472f-8e46-d139f5440b92 | So far as Barking is concerned this state of affairs has passed and we can say it is passing elsewhere, but there still remains the fact that young children do require association with other young children, both a little older and a little younger than themselves, and so long as the Nursery class is a good means of pro... |
3177cedf-74cf-4f3e-8ea2-4c606c69c8d5 | Number of Inspections in the prescribed Groups: Entrants 1,603 Second Age Group 1,531 Third Age Group 1,221 Total 4,355 Number of other Periodic Inspections 5,542 Grand Total 9,897 B.—OTHER INSPECTIONS Number of Special Inspections 12,537 Number of Re-Inspections 13,862 Total 26,399 C.—PUPILS FOUND TO REQUIRE TREATMENT... |
3dd1643b-99ec-4bb3-bb8d-a11ea924a2b7 | (3) Total individual pupils (4) Entrants 23 205 206 Second Age Group 45 138 164 Third Age Group 58 155 206 Total (prescribed groups) 126 498 576 Other Periodic Inspections 212 376 531 Grand Total 338 874 1,107 26 TABLE II. A.—RETURN OF DEFECTS FOUND BY MEDICAL INSPECTION. Defect Code No. Defect or Disease (1) Periodic ... |
c7f04cbc-906a-403a-8428-147f616aa2e2 | Other 36 19 597 1 6 Ears — a. Hearing 13 3 33 2 b. Otitis Media 4 3 29 — c. Other 29 7 382 21 7 Nose or Throat 261 113 223 36 8 Speech 33 5 30 4 9 Cervical Glands 8 14 43 20 10 Heart and circulation 20 30 35 25 11 Lungs 38 55 33 39 12 Developmental— a. Hernia 4 5 3 1 b. Other 3 10 4 3 13 Orthopaedic— a. Posture 27 32 1... |
8bef23c6-9085-4034-bc85-ccd8f49cb7e0 | Other 12 15 14 14 15 Psychological— a. Development 15 10 34 8 b. Stability 2 4 13 12 16 Other 641 92 5,755 389 27 TABLE II. B.—CLASSIFICATION OF THE GENERAL CONDITION OF PUPILS INSPECTED DURING THE YEAR IN THE AGE GROUPS. Age Groups Number of Pupils Inspected A.x (Good) B.+ (Fair) C.— (Poor) No. % of col. 2 No. % of co... |
560f0a37-6523-4e4d-92ce-a354909e6a65 | 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Entrants 1,603 745 46.48 856 53.40 2 .12 Second Age Group 1,531 618 40.36 907 59.24 6 .40 Third Age Group 1,221 450 36.85 760 62.25 11 .90 Other Periodic Inspections 5,542 2,037 36.76 3,482 62.83 23 .41 Total 9,897 3,850 38.90 6,005 60.67 42 .43 x A.—Excellent Nutrition. + B.—Normal Nu... |
372c9098-5290-4bc4-bd20-42141c59e8b6 | Skin— Ringworm—Scalp— 2 (i) X-Ray treatment (ii) Other treatment 1 Ringworm—Body 9 Scabies 32 Impetigo 93 Other skin diseases 776 Eye Disease (External and other, but excluding errors of refraction, squint and cases admitted to hospital). 595 Ear Defects 436 Miscellaneous (e.g., minor injuries, bruises, sores, chilblai... |
15bfe32f-a4d2-456a-9c7a-3b5ffaa42f60 | of Pupils for whom spectacles were (a) Prescribed 493 (b) Obtained 453 GROUP III.—TREATMENT OF DEFECTS OF NOSE AND THROAT. Received operative treatment:— Total number treated. (a) for adenoids and chronic tonsilitis 356 (b) for other nose and throat conditions — Received other forms of treatment 345 Total 701 GROUP IV.... |
34814fb5-f702-4c55-ab61-c7d3fea158af | (1) Number of pupils inspected by the Authority's Dental Officers— (a) Periodic age groups 4,778 (b) Specials 1,109 (c) TOTAL (Periodic and Specials) 5,887 (2) Number found to require treatment 3,332 (3) Number actually treated 6,440 (4) Attendances made by pupils for treatment 12,753 (5) Half-days devoted to: (a) Insp... |
91fc1b28-cb4d-4af8-9c9f-02bdf18abb31 | Infestation with Vermin. (i) Total number of examinations in the schools by the school nurses or other authorised persons 14,325 (ii) Total number of individual pupils found to be infested 463 (iii) Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54 (2), Education Act, 1944) 69 (iv... |
dce07ea8-4153-45b3-8c3d-4d8c02a2026c | Bark 43 BOROUGH OF BARKING. ANNUAL REPORT (ABRIDGED) ON THE HEALTH OF BARKING FOR THE YEAR 1949 by C.LEONARD WILLIAMS, B.Sc.,M.R.C.S.,L.R.C.P.,D.P.H. Medical Officer of Health. BARK 43 TOWN HALL BARKING,Essex November,1950 To The Mayor,Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Barking. Mr.Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, ... |
67faa62d-12ac-483e-8741-f4b075ac6104 | The number of Barking residents who died during the year was 735, an increase of 142 over the previous year. Of this total 384 occurred in the age group 65 years and over, and of these 204 were in respect of persons aged 75 years and over. Heart diseases accounted for nearly one third and cancer one seventh of the tota... |
67360006-1a8a-475d-92e0-9a3d60c4a4d1 | During the year one person was buried under Section 50 of this Act. It was not found necessary to invoke Section 47 of the Act, but throughout tho year wo were reminded by the many tragic cases coming to our notice of tho grave shortage of beds for the chronic sick and suitable and sufficient places for the aged and in... |
136d8001-f729-41e1-a651-50d4d1b1e1a6 | Live Births- Total Males Females Legitimate 1,288 676 612 Illegitimate 40 21 19 Totals 1,328 697 631 Still-Births Legitimate 23 14 9 Illegitimate 1 1 Totals 24 14 10 Live and Still-Births 1,352 711 641 Live Birth Rate per 1,000 of Estimated Population 16.7 Still-Birth rate per 1,000 (Live and Still) Births 17.0 - 2 - D... |
f7576d95-2fb8-44e3-9555-e09d5ff44256 | Total Males Females Deaths in 1949 735 396 339 Death Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population 9.25 Maternal Mortality;- Deaths from Puerperal Sepsis Deaths from Other Maternal Causes 2 Rate per 1,000 total (Live and Still) Birth 1.48 Infant Mortality:- Death Rates of Infants under one year of age:- All Infants, per 1,000 Li... |
c665b8b9-d983-4e77-a621-d08cccb334e9 | Causes of Death Total Entoric Fever - Cerebro-spinal Fever - Scarlet Fever - Whooping Cough - Diphtheria 1 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 39 Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2 Syphilitic Diseases 3 Influenza 8 Measles - Acute Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis 3 Acute Inf.Encephalitis - Cancer (all forms) 109 Diabetes 5 Intra-cran... |
e3073b2b-6ada-47de-b5c1-4a2509be23c0 | Infantile Diseases 16 Suicide 12 Road Traffic Accidents 2 Other Violent Causes 10 All Other Causes 46 Total 735 - 4 - INFANTILE MORTALITY - 1949. Causo of Death. Age at Death. 0-1 mth. 1-3 mths. 3-6 mths. 6-9 mths. 9-12 mths. |
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