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024208aa-250c-4a76-92e1-84fe3eeb9315 | There was a gratifying response and our first meeting, on 1st July, 1953, was attended by the following:— Superintendent Health Visitor, Barking Health Area Senior Education Welfare Officer, Barking Committee for Education Rehousing Officer, Barking Borough Council Inspector Holmes, Barking with Dagenham Branch N.S.P.C... |
641685f4-e62e-49d4-8be5-994c96ef8d5e | It was agreed in each. instance that only one worker would continue supervision, reporting back to the Committee when there appeared to be need for further action. The creation of such a committee does not, of course, enable us to provide help which is beyond the power or scope of its individual members and their respe... |
0273bdbc-dfbe-41de-b485-9bc8724c4dbd | Strangely enough, the Rehousing Officer is only responsible for a portion of the Borough owing to the fact that the Becontree Housing Estate is managed by the London County Council. During 1953 the N.S.P.C.C. Inspector was responsible for Barking, most (but not all) of Dagenham, a part of West Ham and a part of East Ha... |
77df2703-523a-426a-9e22-f145b2013fb8 | Three of these officers cover the boroughs of Ilford and Barking, and any one of these three might consequently deal with Barking cases. To complete the picture the Probation Officers are attached to the Becontree Division, their territory co iprising Walthamstow, Leyton, Ilford, Barking and Dagenham. THE AGED. It is w... |
0c1e60b6-ff6d-4ece-ade8-767c1c489d2b | Our infant welfare services have reduced infant mortality to less than; fth of what it was some 50 years ago, whilst deaths Prom infectiou diseases other than tuberculosis are now rare. As a suit expectatn of life has increased markedly. A baby boy born in 1900 could expect to live on the average 44 years—whilst today ... |
0ccd9da8-ff6a-4dcf-8985-d376aa23e6a9 | We know of the great difficulty in finding hospital beds for the aged sick and of the great increase in demands on the home help service in recent years. Not only are there more old people needing care but they are more willing to accept it now that the stigma of the Poor Law has been removed. Smaller families and the ... |
65d5c680-f9d2-4872-825d-3b667b4f6644 | Unfortunately the old folk have the temerity not to allow themselves to be thus neatly pigeon-holed, and some even have he audacity to change from one category to another! For the able-bodied the Borough Council can provide houses, and I am pleased to record that you are making special provision on your new Thames View... |
7b8612b1-1045-4130-b2c2-9d7c61b50c81 | The aged infirm who can be cared for in their own homes are assisted by the home help service, and they receive supervision from the health visiting staff (both administered by the Health Area subCommittee). The "Meals-on-Wheels "service is provided by the old People's Welfare Committee, whilst if residential accommoda... |
8c4a80dc-e209-4ab6-aac4-2432be7ca072 | I should like to record my appreciation of the assistance received from Mr. Fisher, Area Welfare Officer, in this case. The aged sick being nursed in their own homes, either through choice or lack of hospital beds, have available the services of the district nurses (administered from the Lady Rayleigh Training Home, Le... |
1422c23b-4d24-4301-ab26-b54bfd00dbb3 | Such patients are thus still brought to the clinics by ambulance (one presumes that this costs nothing, and that the ambulances have nothing better to do!) In a further effort to help relatives nursing incontinent patients at home, the Borough Council has inaugurated a laundry service using powers under Section 84 of t... |
0955fa8e-470e-46d5-bea9-5eff812e4b05 | Within the Ilford and Barking group of hospitals there are only 22 chronic sick beds—all for women—at the Barking Hospital, and admissions are controlled by the Page 27 Surgical Registrar at the King George Hospital, Ilford! Most Barking patients have to be admitted to the St. George's Hospital, Hornchurch, which is ad... |
64639c01-55a9-4c63-995a-35202fedb987 | There are seldom vacancies in the County Welfare Department's hostels to which they can be transferred, and difficulties also arise where a patient considered too fit for hospital is classed as too infirm for a hostel! I have the feeling that many old people at present in hostels could have been kept at home had suitab... |
55284c8f-876b-4005-9630-ec6bdbde7ed1 | This, you will recollect, was only a few years after your first Medical Officer of Health was appointed. Since then the services provided by local authorities have increased in nature and in scope out of all recognition, but the framework of local government has hardly altered. The 1929 Local Government Act concentrate... |
cb35a6ac-74e8-470c-be58-6f18a6d95915 | So far as the health services are concerned, I think there is much to be said for the functions of the existing local health and local sanitary authorities, local education authorities, the hospital management committees and local executive councils, all being administered by one elected body in one given area. In orde... |
f12bb4fd-f5e9-47bb-9670-f81c2beda6a1 | These and other lunctions such as Town and Country Planning, Fire and Police services at present administered by County Councils could well be passed to a limited number of new Regional authorities—in some cases formed by a combination of smaller counties. I realise that proposals of such a nature will not find ready a... |
8723a7f2-1603-4d67-9064-0f988655a38e | It is generally agreed that much has been achieved in these first five years, although there is an almost equally widespread feeling that improvements could be made in its administration and available monies spent to better advantage. This was recognised during the year by the setting up of the Guillebaud Committee, wh... |
eb1cdc8e-1c75-47e5-8e4a-1476ee421c03 | In 1931 the first portion of the new permanent infectious diseases hospital, known as Barking Hospital, was opened and in 1935 the second porton was completed. Before' the war this Hospital, with its complemen- of 108 beds, was substantially filled with patients suffering from such seases as diphtheria, scarlet fever a... |
950d3963-1a37-4ab6-97fc-3b1c562c8964 | It is impossible to Compute the enormous sums of money which must have been spent nationally years ago upon the hospital treatment of patients suffering from diphtheria, but I note from my predecessor's annual report for 1927 that a four months' stay in hospital for a diphtheria case was not at all uncommon. As an aid ... |
bdb68020-1ebf-4cd3-b952-723abfbe37ec | At the end of the war the decision that the Barking Hospital should not revert to the reception of infectious disease cases led to accommodation becoming available for other purposes. Amongst other things it gave a happy solution to the problem of finding a new home, complete with X-ray facilities, for the Chest Clinic... |
b73d78ac-0bff-4d0c-a69e-eb7eda10f534 | The Barking Hospital, together with the Upney Maternity Pavilion, came under the administrative control of the Ilford and Barking Group Hospital Management Committee of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board on the "appointed day," but my predecessor continued to hold the post of Medical Sup rintendent unt... |
448006cd-598a-40a8-a6d3-a227a0202690 | It is a pleasure to record my appreciation for their help and co-operation, which has een steadily building up during 1953. I am hopeful that the link will be strengthened during the forthcoming year by my membership of the Group Hospital Medical Advisory Committee. The need for co-operation between the various branche... |
dda8ba22-b29f-4d4d-ae23-8ae25de7b309 | Of the 29 members of the Health Area Sub-Committee, 15 are members of the Borough Council, 7 (including the Chairman and ViceChairman of the County Health Committee ex officio) are appointed by the County Council, and of the remainder one is nominated by each of four voluntary associations and one by each of the Ilford... |
480008c2-8dc9-4956-aa31-ccd958537a8a | Despite this I think it true to say that you remain far from satisfied with these arrangements. I believe I should be right in assuming that your attitude was particularly well summarised in the following extract fron a recent leading article in The Times, dealing with local government and the need for re-organisation:... |
eb400a80-1e55-4226-b029-f2e695c1d0cd | A true health centre provides under one roof facilities for the patient to consult family doctor, health visitors, other members of the local authority team and, where necessary, hospital specialists. A consideration of the development of the services in Barking will show how near you came to this ideal prior to the in... |
f77120e8-48f1-49d2-82d1-c250772304b9 | It is interesting to read that at that time "by instruction of the Board of Education, the following scale of charges has been made:— (a) Spectacles 2s. 9d. per pair (b) Tonsils and Adenoids operations 5s. per operation (c) X-ray treatment No charge (d) Minor Ailments Is. per 3 months, after 14 days free treatment (e) ... |
0911976e-7dc6-41d4-a89f-6dde783c6ec3 | It was then used to house the first public foot clinic until more spacious accommodation could be provided, since when it has been re-equipped as a dentai surgery. Following closely on the erection of Central Clinic, new buildswere opened in Woodward Road in 1935 to serve the rapidly expanding Becontree Estate, but you... |
a95a5fd7-6c4f-45c4-bb71-df6ef50678af | The Porters Avenue premises were eventually adapted for clinic premises according to the plans of the Borough Architect and despite the limitations imposed by the substantial fabric a well planned clinic building has been created, which will serve the area for some years to come. The orthopaedic and physiotherapy servi... |
97ac778b-2405-4cc1-9008-354c49c6e6de | For a number of years clinic services in the town had been accepted as an essential part of the provision for patients coming within the school health and the maternity and child welfare schemes, but their facilities were still denied to patients outside these two categories. A foot clinic had been started in 1938, and... |
819d1a16-cb2b-48a9-b1fc-c367f2f80266 | Page 35 It will thus be seen that prior to the "appointed day" it only remained to make family doctor services available to adult males and the elderly for the clinics to have become health centres in the fullest sense. It now appears unlikely that new health centres will ever be built on the scale envisaged when the N... |
d242d1ef-8b4f-4e04-9c78-d38940855b0d | For the Becontree north area it had been hoped to reserve a site in Cannington Road but unfortunately this was earmarked exclusively for educational purposes in the County Development Plan, and you have somewhat reluctantly decided to accept an alternative site in the Mayesbrook Park adjacent to the proposed community ... |
48d540e4-d69c-42b4-8817-8a03809cc701 | this centre is not likely to be needed for many years to come, and in view of the excellent condition of the existing Central Clinic you may later decide simply to extend the present building and build a new wi to accommodate the dental surgeries still at East Street, the Centra Foot Cliniv and the Dental Workshop. For... |
993629a9-e749-4742-95c9-fdb2c58d6764 | Nose and Throat øOpthalmic (including squint Chiropody training) Chiropody East Street Dental Greatfields Ante-Natal Infant Welfare Manor a nd Eastbury Estates Upney Ante-Natal øObstretic øGynaecological Post-Natal Infant Welfare øPaediatric Immunisation Minor Ailments Paget Ward (Barking Hospital) Birth Control øSkin ... |
e7da3e49-ea7a-4f11-bec9-cf4c0ad1d32e | I believe this idea closely resembles a pre-war concept of a "polyclinic" which would form your main health centre and accommodate all those specialist services which could not be provided in each of the other centres. I hope that it will soon be possible to make a modest start on this project by rebuilding the existin... |
8e512ef2-d547-4d16-9287-d0a42565f727 | The Local Executive Council has been offered accommodation in this clinic for general practitioner services, and we shall all eagerly await the outcome of this approach. Much has been talked for the need for co-operation between the general practitioner and the local health services. In my view this is a golden opportu... |
87620209-7c85-4038-982b-72264f9c7c0c | CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDRE> MATERNITY SERVICE The National Health Service Act has created a split in idministrative responsibility for the maternity services, control of the Upne) Maternity Pavilion having passed to the Ilford and Ba; ing Group Hospital Management Committee whilst it is now the fui > tion of the... |
b9224dc6-5725-44a7-b7bc-c019c48a4fe3 | Reference has already been made to the good use made of your powers under the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act in the building of the Upney Maternity Hospital, and it will have been apparent that from the earliest days you had a highly developed system of ante-natal clinics for mothers booked for confinement at Upn... |
a0475c2d-0c2e-4656-8afe-6d21a835d733 | As long ago as a quarter of a century it was realised that the education of the expectant mother in matters relating to her own health during pregnancy and in the care of the coming baby was even more important than the ection of any obstretic abnormalities, vital though this may be n recent years the health visitors h... |
d2e5995e-3696-4db3-b25c-1e3bcff7217b | By patient work the position has been steadily improved until the present day when some 90% of expectant mothers receive ante-natal care in 'he clinics, the remainder being under the care of hospitals or their own family doctors. Out of a total of 1,110 mothers confined in 1953 onlyone failed to receive any ante-natal ... |
cc6e3217-3602-45bd-bc44-f145b2c9572c | The system whereby all ante-natal records are kept in the Upney Hospital overnight ensures that these records will be available if a mother goes into labour during the night, and is of especial benefit if she has to be admitted in an emergency. Confinements. In 1927 less than a quarter of the deliveries took place in h... |
8440f6c5-97bc-4033-97c2-6bbd3cab766e | It has probably been re-enforced by the introduction of the National Health Service which made it much cheaper for the mother to have a baby in hospital, where domestic help, food and laundry are provided free of charge. The introduction during the year of the new home confinement grant of £3 goes some way to meet this... |
a3fdef2f-cdd3-430d-8e7d-254ca20c84c4 | It is questionable, however, whether beds should be provided for those who do not fall into either of these categories whilst Page 40 Page 41 DISTRIBUTION OF CONFINEMENTS 1928-1953 the national economic position renders it impossible to make adequate provision for certain other classes of patients such as the chronic s... |
8e739be5-b79b-4345-8e1d-70fb2a5b1068 | In 1927 only 26 mothers were examined following their confinements and this figure remained low for many years, despite the repeated plea of my predecessor. POST NATAL CLINIC Number attending for first time 1,016 Total number of attendances 1,244 Whilst there has been a steady improvement so that in 1953 approximately ... |
2a6a6109-386f-4ac0-a02d-9f4212d53cad | GYNÆCOLOGICAL CLINIC Number attending for first time 328 Total number of attendances 1,522 of the conditions treated there could have been prevented had adequate post-natal attention been obtained at the proper time Page 42 Dental Care. The services of the Dental Officers are available to the "priority groups" of expec... |
5fa666b4-9be9-4162-a1c1-b348b05e8adf | infant welfare Infant welfare clinics have also been provided in Barking from the earliest days of the service, the first having been set up in 1908. The results are reflected in the infant mortality rate, at that time 117 per 1,000 live births, which steadily fell to a figure of 66 a quarter of a century ago, and whic... |
e8b9733b-c3fd-4f97-94d6-7c7521075c2d | The task is steadily becoming more diffii It as the mortality falls since most infant deaths now occur in th first weeks of life, the majority whilst mother and babe are still in ospital. We must, therefore, attack the problem more through ou ante-natal and maternity services, and for this we need more know.edge of the... |
927d84af-113f-4e3a-96bf-6eb728a284d4 | "Summer diarrhoea" and rickts are now virtually non-existent, and clinics whose main functions are the distribution of dried milk and vitamins have no place in our Page 43 Page 44 COMPARATIVE INFANT MORTALITY RATES 1929 - 1953 service today. Too frequent routine weighing of an obviously healthy baby can do much harm to... |
838a97a0-ea2e-4122-a44a-b3902d2a1e12 | INFANT WELFARE CLINICS Number of children—First Attendances in Year :— Under 1 year 1,047 Over 1 year 2,385 Total number of attendances of children:— Under 1 year 17,703 Over 1 year 11,016 whilst you have developed excellent services for expectant mothers and for babies, there has been a tendency to neglect the routine... |
d5824f2f-bcea-4c08-a7db-24803421be86 | S. B. Dimson, M.D. Page 45 PÆDIATRIC CLINIC Attendances :— School Children 258 Toddlers 141 DAY NURSERIES Your day nursery service was originated during the war years to look after children whose mothers were contributing to the war effort, but was developed and maintained to care for those whose mothers were unmarried... |
26ca2de5-d135-43ad-85d0-8f76681fac4d | By the end of the year, however, attendances and the demand for places had fallen so precipitately that we were forced to recommend DAY NURSERIES - DEMAND FOR PLACES JULY 1952-DECEMBER 1955 Figure 8 the closure of Lodge Farm and you were not unaware that it might be necessary to close a second nursery. As will be seen ... |
3efb5f65-4961-4097-81ca-7a8076e0ea70 | No doubt largely owing to the excellent day nursery service which you built up there has never been a large demand for registration under this Act. In 1953 two women were registered as Child Minders. Only one took advantage of this registration and had two children in her carc for part of the year. MIDWIFERY For many y... |
7180b733-752a-4bf6-932a-b34d71ed7711 | Those municipal midwives who had been engaged to serve the Upney and Becontree areas were transferred to the control of the Barking Health Area Sub-Committee, whilst the area of "old" Barking was taken over by midwives from the County Training I me at Leytonstone working from the Longbridge Road Home. It ems a pity tha... |
61355ec1-fea6-4302-96ba-a22b0dfff1e1 | s. We may be approaching the point where our midwives will not be aling with sufficient cases to maintain the high degree of competence lied for, a problem which will be accentuated in Barking by the divid control of the domiciliary service. I am attracted by the idea of a combined hospital and home midwifery se ice. T... |
0cf7a6d3-b969-4e33-9197-7e8149c1384d | HEALTH VISITING The first "Lady Health Inspector" in Barking was appointed in 1907, and by the time my predecessor took office 25 years ago your staff consisted of three health visitors, two school nurses and one dental nurse. With the rapid expansion of the Borough and of the standard of service provided the establish... |
00cbaad4-fc24-46b3-9e52-1d24998a6764 | The National Health Service Act, however, broadened the responsibilities of the health visitor to include all members of the family. This has focussed attention on the need for close co-operation with general practitjners who themselves, for the first time, became able to deal with the damily as a whole. Slow but stead... |
563c0be6-1eec-480f-9e90-5e45dc74721e | on the whole attendances at clinics have tended to fall following the ntroduction of the National Health Service, but since those most in need of advice are often those who never attended clinics in the past, or those who through age or infirmity cannot do so, it can only be to the good if health visitors have availabl... |
e77e2353-90ab-466a-8165-c3ec670d8bf4 | In all her activities she must aim to educate, first in the need for action, and then in the methods of achieving the objective. HOME NURSING In the area of "old" Barking services of home nurses were also provided by arrangement with the Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home, who received financial aid ... |
2271f909-7635-4f0b-99e6-40882880e206 | Since the "appointed day," however, when these services were taken over by the County Council, they have been administered from the County's training home at Leytonstone and your Medical Officer lost contact with this service. It seems to me that the health visiting, domiciliary midwifery, home nursing and home help se... |
c4480f33-64dd-44e9-89f4-1dcec4eb2c9d | The County Council's proposals under Section 26 of the National Health Service Act envisaged that vaccinations would be undertaken mainly by general medical practitioners and supplemented by special sessions in the clinics only if circumstances called for such an extension. Page 49 Page 50 The figures for vaccinations ... |
8483c82a-558d-45e4-9dd7-1cbe1c2f3a30 | Apart from a slight setback during the first year of the war, the number of children immunised each year rose rapidly to a peak of over 2,000 in 1943. The numbers of cases of diphtheria notified have fallen steadily since the peak number of cases reached in 1933, the last case having been notified in 1950. The fall in ... |
aa56aa9e-0d44-41f8-a589-c7f3485b99b8 | Your scheme for whooping cough immunisation was introduced during 1941, and in 1946 a combined vaccine was made available so that babies could be immunised against both whooping cough and diphtheria with one series of injections. The scheme for combined immunisation was continued after the "appointed day" but during 19... |
1135e8cc-a3e4-4964-8c2d-f2a4a68f8012 | This led me to turn up the report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1926 in which it is recorded that a horse ambulance was provided for the removal of such cases to the Isolation Hospital ! At that time accident and non-infectious cases were dealt with by ambulances coming under the control of the Chief Fire Office... |
93b2a2a9-7eb5-4e98-b5da-8ce971d20bce | Bearing in mind that it absorbs 28% of the authorities' expenditure, and that the service can in no way be called preventive, it is my feeling that it would more properly have been made the responsibility of Regional Hospital Boards. PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTER-CARE Prevention. The National Health Service was... |
980821f4-3e5a-4269-a8ef-71de4b89802b | It is interesting to compare the money spent on the hospital general practitioner, and local health authority services and as will be seen from Figure 11 the lion's share goes to the Regional Hospital Boards leaving only 8 per cent. to the local health authorities. The breakdown of local health authority expenditure (F... |
ccdfd7bc-6fb9-4b6b-acd4-06aa7d16b61c | The discoveries of doctors and scientists working in laboratories, hospitals, and in the community at large must be translated into action by the individual. Before people will act they must be convinced of the necessity for action. This conviction can only arise from the efforts of our staff in the field of health edu... |
ee0a4585-13ab-4c82-b1ba-e1c4d72a935a | The loan of sick-room equipment, previously undertaken by the nursing associations receiving financial support from the Council and by voluntary bodies, is now dealt with directly from the Health Area Office. The following articles are available on loan :— Air-rings Back-rests Bed-blocks Bed-pans Bed-cradles Commode-ch... |
b6d4f132-9fab-4ed6-941b-f46f1db76b9a | To many, this appears a short-sighted policy since a small expenditure on foot care for elderly people may well reduce the numbers of those who eventually need the scarce and expensive places in hostels or hospitals for the chronic sick. The lack of beds for even seriously ill aged sick persons means that many have to ... |
2eb69202-5399-4f42-8c9f-831b5b02baeb | Since he "appointed day" the County's tuberculosis services have been decentralised to Health Area Sub-Committees, and today include the provision of extra nourishment (1 pint of milk per day), loan of garden shelters, boarding out of child contacts, and rehabilitation at such Village Settlements as Enham-Alamein (Ando... |
c4b522f3-0b27-42e9-af74-db9479a6025c | domestic help service The Domestic Help Service in Barking was originated by the Borough Council in 1943 when three part-time helps were appointed to attend home confinement cases. The following year the scheme was extended to cover illnesses of expectant and nursing mothers and children under 5 years of age, and deman... |
d795d76a-24e4-4fa2-8e92-661af828570e | Year Number of Helps Employed Number of Cases Helped Total Hours Worked 1943 3 8 1944 3 32 1945 6 69 1946 12 261 1947 31 415 1948 36 303 1949 65 344 1950 55 387 80,699 1951 49 327 70,611 1952 84 318 85,743 1953 89 384 105,121 Whilst the number of cases helped has not materially increased since the introduction of the N... |
b86587ad-31d6-4ddd-9ec4-4b92d8aa9bdc | Whilst in a few cases hospitalisation is really required in the best interests of the patient, in many other cases the assistance given renders it unnecessary for the old folk to be admitted to hostels or similar institutions and enables them to remain, as they would wish, in their own homes. GENERAL PRACTITIONER SERVI... |
1e8d67c6-b073-4915-8ae5-496e94277d03 | In an "all purpose" authority, the area served by the Local Executive Council corresponds to the Borough boundaries and the Medical Officer of Health is usually a member both of the Executive Council nd of its Local Medical Committee. In a two-tiered system where the Local Executive Council covers the whole County this... |
10a5ff18-0664-4d50-8eaf-e198b17cd822 | I am certain that we are moving steadily away from the suspicions of the pre-1948 era when it was felt that your extensive services were in competition with the private doctors, and it is with the greatest pleasure that I acknowledge the help afforded me personally by many individual doctors in 1953. True co-operation,... |
6c9a0590-0258-419c-bef8-e90d59ffea71 | It is hoped that the new year will bring with it the required personnel to enable the work to proceed on a routine basis. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA. Statistical tables showing the work of the sanitary inspectors are set oat in the appendix. The year produced fewer complaints than in the previous year, the numb... |
831f10f0-8bed-499d-82a6-29ea064ddef4 | An additional 30 were added during the year, making a total of 32 properties which were dealt with as follows :— 30 repaired by owners 2 remaining outstanding In addition to the above work, in one instance work was carried out by the Borough Engineer in default of the owner in accordance with the provisions of Section ... |
b0d6519c-3d63-451d-8e1f-a42dbf53a3d4 | The major improvements at Loxford Water and the Mayesbrook are now in progress and it is hoped will be completed by the middle of 1955. These works were referred to in the last Annual Report. The following improvements have been carried out :— At the Mayesbrook the stream has been widened and fitted with sluice gates w... |
33be4e57-ea9c-4491-9232-209081c8af05 | The number of premises where dustbins are supplied and maintained by the Corporation in accordance with Section 75(3) of the Public Health Act, 1936, at the end of the year was 5,119. Action taken under sub-section (1) of that section early in year resulted in appeals against notices in four instances nd in each case j... |
03ac1069-643b-4c50-bbfc-9bd54239ab14 | There was in addition 50,630 tons of refuse received from other Boroughs at the Corporation tip. The tip at Jenkins Lane was closed in May and a new tip was opened at Renwick Road. This new tip will provide accommodation for about 20 years tipping. Permanent buildings for personnel and equipment are to be erected. Disp... |
f04cf905-dd81-4bad-b04f-e47f7dfde6a9 | The seasonal treatment of vacant lands, refuse tips, piggeries, stables, fishmongers and butchers premises was continued during the warm weather with satisfactory results. The Borough experienced a minor seaweed fly (Coelopa frigida) infestation it three factory premises using tri-chlor-ethylene. Remedial measures were... |
61434120-37e2-4d8a-81ba-61175b3c18e0 | The half-yearly treatments of sewers were carried out during the months of May and November, the results being as follows :— May November Number of manholes baited 400 397 Number showing bait take 170 193 Number showing complete bait take 66 81 Prior to the May treatment test baiting was carried out throughout the more... |
b7696c77-649d-46aa-938d-555264698ff5 | of properties in Area in which infestation was found Analysis of Col. 4. Number infested by (1) (2) (3) (4) RATS MICE Only Total Notified by Occupier Otherwise discovered Total Major Minor Local Authority's property 29 10 — 10 — 7 3 Dwelling houses 20,555 105 241 346 — 301 45 Business premises 1,599 29 61 90 — 71 19 To... |
dc8aec32-838f-40f6-8019-5925693dd215 | of treatments carried out by arrangement with Occupier Under Section 5 Treatment Works Rats Mice only Rats Mice only Local Authority's Property 10 25 — — 12 5 — — Dwelling Houses 346 614 — — 301 45 — — Business Premises 290 530 — — 256 33 — — Totals 646 1,169 — — 569 83 — — Page 62 OTHER PESTS. There is a developing de... |
e21f7251-1ddb-4b2b-aa0b-6115de0e8758 | This smog was the most disastrous that has occurred for 80 years, the possibility of it arising from a freak weather condition or changes in the character of air pollutants is being investigated. In connection with the possible "unusual" constituents of the atmosphere consideration is being given to the problem of sulp... |
d216627c-def8-4966-b031-3835c4cd8fb3 | The Council is alive to these possibilities and is one of the local authorities taking part in the investigation of atmospheric pollution conducted by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Measurements of the pollution in Barking are taken at three Points in the Borough and are co-ordinated monthly, wit... |
cad8f8f9-213a-41e4-a611-d6046b5b41e0 | 57 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 JANUARY — — — 20.94 35.55 29.65 20.57 28.27 21.18 21.80 35.56 32.87 17.38 24.30 22.29 30.48 28.61 22.32 FEBRUARY — — — 19.44 28.68 28.23 24.26 43.80 36.14 30.87 45.10 36.42 12.52 17.11 11.07 30.52 23.24 24.97 MARCH — — — 15.22 24.44 21.01 18.17 26.38 24.55 17.32 22.99 32.70 25.46 2... |
eadcc97b-bca1-4154-bfd7-8f57845a42c4 | 48 22.38 14.30 APRIL 21.73 30.52 23.25 24.16 27.37 28.99 23.89 29.29 20.98 18.17 22.85 23.39 19.16 21.79 26.72 22.41 19.88 21.94 MAY 22.93 23.13 19.87 25.08 26.93 26.89 16.02 11.83 10.20 17.62 23.65 21.49 26.11 22.28 21.08 — 21.52 17.47 JUNE 16.45 28.20 22.59 17.25 21.56 19.88 23.37 18.33 14.50 23.48 30.15 23.93 29.33 ... |
28225830-94f4-486f-82f9-d972cd4f2bad | 78 25.58 26.52 12.28 JULY 12.20 15.19 11.62 27.89 26.11 22.66 21.83 26.07 25.55 17.25 19.95 23.49 17.18 — 12.10 26.94 24.64 24.79 AUGUST 25.01 29.29 22.94 23.78 32.34 24.97 29.87 21.25 26.62 16.15 23.51 24.97 30.66 35.90 16.16 25.74 22.89 21.49 SEPTEMBER 17.14 22.00 21.05 20.94 25.46 26.65 19.23 33.10 20.91 17.11 28.85... |
7b0fd460-45a4-4d29-b0f3-b022173f5395 | 24 19.92 19.09 30.71 27.75 21.18 OCTOBER 20.05 28.37 26.72 44.35 51.81 47.90 18.89 23.41 19.88 12.11 25.66 26.76 25.35 26.08 22.59 45.89 28.92 21.56 NOVEMBER 31.96 52.18 51.24 21.42 33.98 32.98 37.44 43.02 34.63 23.72 50.13 36.80 — 21.66 20.81 33.55 31.79 21.94 DECEMBER 20.64 43.04 32.74 19.44 29.23 24.83 25.60 29.64 3... |
7a6e30da-e681-49f8-892f-a1a0a2e606be | 57 41.99 45.46 35.86 29.57 41.59 44.04 31.74 Averages 20.90 30.21 25.78 23.30 30.29 27.84 23.26 28.70 23.82 19.94 30.08 29.48 28.19 24.90 20.49 30.25 25.18 21.33 + . STATIONS. D.56 =Barking Park —Alfreds Way from May, 1952. D.57 =Greatfields Park. D.58 =Parsloes Park. Page 65 ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION SULPHUR DIOXIDE READI... |
e6e4a1ad-4c74-48cc-a5a9-0fe112b68dd2 | LEAD PEROXIDE MONTH 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 D.56 D.57 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 D.56 D.57 1 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 D.56 D.57 D.58 JANUARY — — — 3.95 4.69 4.64 2.28 2.85 3.01 2.29 2.60 1.97 2.04 2.84 2.14 3.50 4.06 3.09 FEBRUARY — — — 3.19 4.17 3.92 2.70 3.99 3.44 2.14 2.24 1.81 2.16 2.82 2.38 2.68 2.98 2. |
fd1a76dc-d5d1-48a6-a650-39e9c50f78fe | 01 MARCH — — — 2.75 2.31 2.64 2.07 2.78 2.77 1.48 2.05 2.09 1.57 1.28 1.68 2.89 2.57 2.77 APRIL — — — 1.76 2.29 2.41 1.77 2.31 2.39 1.31 1.48 1.29 0.95 0.98 1.08 2.16 2.48 2.03 MAY — — — 1.22 1.69 1.56 0.42 1.00 1.41 0.43 1.06 1.05 0.72 1.04 0.77 1.53 1.17 1.50 JUNE 1.00 1.6 1.4 0. |
fbe5c08f-1455-4d73-9863-0227c0f7853b | 94 1.50 1.27 1.00 1.72 1.58 0.55 0.85 0.55 0.04 0.65 0.58 1.27 1.35 0.97 JULY 1.98 1.53 1.25 0.66 0.96 0.73 0.62 1.68 1.43 0.72 1.11 0.97 0.50 1.19 0.78 2.19 2.23 1.82 AUGUST 1.28 1.77 1.68 0.89 1.12 0.96 1.07 1.98 1.53 0.87 1.37 1.01 0.75 1.41 0.77 2.43 2.05 1.57 SEPTEMBER 1. |
ed937b1c-0673-4679-a88a-d1ec4e8f2c96 | 68 2.49 2.37 0.67 0.90 0.83 1.56 2.36 2.58 0.94 1.53 1.21 1.02 1.10 0.65 2.18 1.75 1.75 OCTOBER 2.42 3.13 3.08 1.84 2.38 2.45 1.20 1.48 1.06 1.21 1.63 1.50 1.63 1.54 1.93 2.53 1.84 1.78 NOVEMBER 3.62 4.25 4.71 1.31 2.51 2.74 2.14 2.31 1.85 1.82 1.99 1.68 1.96 2.23 2.15 4.15 3. |
8c51fcb9-b8eb-477a-a662-5c6e8ddd1be3 | 91 3.51 DECEMBER 3.09 3.83 3.45 2.63 3.95 3.47 1.91 2.25 1.91 1.35 1.88 1.83 3.77 3.24 3.96 3.38 3.08 3.15 Averages 2.01 2.66 2.56 1.82 2.62 2.30 1.56 2.23 2.08 1.26 1.64 1.41 1.43 1.70 1.57 2.57 2.46 2.16 56= Barking Park up to December, 1952, and thereafter Alfreds Way. D.57 = Greatfields Park. D.58=Parsloes Park. |
7e35ceb2-4ad8-43d7-a28c-a6f0db8ed19f | The estate which will have 2,000 families upon completion would have provided an example of what could be achieved. The Council did not at this first attempt accept the proposal. The tables on pages 64-65 give comparable results of pollution for the years 1948-1953. As a result of the enquiries addressed to Dr. Somervi... |
d5d472fd-373f-43c0-a8de-0d5ce32eace3 | Experiments are being undertaken with another system of removing sulphur gas which may provide a saleable product and may therefore be operated at less than cost to the community. No further information has been elicited on this system. In reply to an enquiry by Dr. Somerville Hastings, M.P. the Chairman of the British... |
50fa961c-7079-449c-8ea9-8ca5da4cbe83 | put down questions on the subject in the House of Commons. In answer, the Minister of Fuel and Power said the problem of removing Sulphur Oxides from flue gases is the subject of continuous research. He reiterated the statements made above and added that a steady decrease in fuel consumption at the Barking Generating S... |
c6c37594-fef7-42e4-bcf0-d01b897685d5 | The disastrous flood which caused serious damage and loss of life in the Eastern Counties affected two small areas in Barking, at Creekmouth and West Bank. The water entered into 65 houses and whilst none of these were rendered uninhabitable there was considerable damage to furniture and household effects. In many of t... |
2fca2609-ec8c-4776-b2fb-c7cd1499cce0 | SWIMMING BATHS AND POOL. East Street Bath.—The season opened on 25th April and closed on 27th September, 1953, a period of 22 weeks. During this period the bath was used by 63,441 bathers, including 37,738 children. The slipper-baths were once more well patronised. During the year they were used by residents on 42,614 ... |
42c8e8cc-9863-47be-9a8e-653e040863ea | BURIAL OR CREMATION OF THE DEAD. The unclaimed body of a child which was found dead was disposed of by burial in accordance with sub-section (1) of Section 50 of the National Assistance Act, 1948. PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951. In accordance with Section 1 of this Act, Licences for the keeping of pet shops have been issued to ... |
b2e19faf-4df6-49c2-9b19-ed178a430954 | There became operative during the year :— The Offals in Meat Products Order, 1953 The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1953 The Labelling of Food Order, 1953 The Public Health (Preservatives, etc. in Food) Regulations, 1953 The Food Standards (Ice Cream) Order, 1953 Page 68 The Cream and use of Milk (Re... |
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