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1 2 Tailors 9 9 8 8 17 17 Dressmakers 7 12 7 10 14 22 Shoemakers 12 12 21 21 33 33 Cycle and Motor Works 3 3 4 4 7 7 Saddlers 1 1 1 1 2 2 Photographers 1 1 3 3 4 4 Smiths 3 3 3 3 6 6 Umbrella Makers . . 2 2 2 2 Glove Cleaning 1 1 . . 1 1 Upholsterer . . 1 1 1 1 Coachbuilder . . 1 1 1 1 Picture Frame Makers . . 2 2 2 2 ...
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1 3 HAND LAUNDRIES β€” Under 40 employees 2 6 4 11 6 17 BAKEHOUSESβ€” 2 6 9 27 11 33 C.β€”DOMESTIC WORKSHOPS Dressmakers 15 21 16 16 31 37 Family Laundries 9 18 10 30 19 48 D.β€”WORKPLACES β€” Stable Yards 5 12 5 10 10 22 Restaurants 5 12 12 20 17 32 Ice Cream Maker 1 5 . . 1 5 Totals 92 153 127 201 219 354 66 Sanitary Administr...
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Various other visits 1736 1366 1164 , Defects Notified 641 593 624 , Houses cleansed 220 160 226 , β€ž , after Infectious Disease 89 45 70 β€ž Disinfections performed 235 348 340 , Drains unstopped 36 30 20 , , repaired IS 14 14 , , reconstructed 34 26 24 , Defective closet pans and traps 20 12 21 , , dust receptacles repl...
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Roofs and eaves' gutterings repaired 46 14 45 β€ž Yards paved and paving repaired 06 39 37 , Dampness remedied 36 20 25 , Manholes made watertight 16 4 10 , Mica valves made good 8 5 6 , Receptacles for manure provided 2 3 2 , Cases of overcrowding abated 3 5 4 , Houses found unfit for habitation 16 12 15 , Bakehouse ins...
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Premises licensed for storage of Petroleum 22 22 25 Re-inspections are not included in this table. At the request of the M.O.H. the Assistant S.I., Mr. Robinson has reported on subjects coming more particularly within his ken. FISHMONGERS. There are 14 shops of this class in the district. In 7 shops only wet and dried ...
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Proper offal receptacles are provided, which, in some cases, are removed daily by a contractor, and in others three times a week, depending, naturally, on the amount of trade. Empty receptacles are left in place of the full receptacles removed. All these shops are constructed on hygienic principles, with impervious flo...
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Covered receptacles on the top of the stove are provided for the storage of fish and potatoes. These stoves are much more economical, both in the quantity of frying medium used and in coal, and when properly managed are quite satisfactory. All parts of the stove are easily accessible for cleaning purposes, the tiling g...
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Contrary to theory, only a small percentage of steam is actually carried into the flue, as evidenced by the amount of steam which can be seen escaping into the shop. In the majority of cases side screens are not fixed, so that the function of the canopy is interfered with through draughts. Although that portion of the ...
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The practice obtains of adding fresh oil to the pan as occasion demands, so that the stale oil is never entirely removed. In the other shops dripping is the frying medium used, and is of varying qualities. This medium does not, however, give rise to such an effluvium nuisance as when cotton-seed oil is used. The trade ...
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The difficulty being, under the present conditions, a monetary one, the Inspector has to use every consideration, the immediate locality being an important factor, as has been stated by the Courts. RESTAURANTS AND COFFEE SHOPS. There are 17 shops of this character in the district, and 32 visits have been made to them. ...
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Although two slaughter-houses exist, one in Barnes and one in Mortlake, only one of them is used. During the year 8 pigs have been killed at this establishment, and on each occasion the Assistant Inspector has been present and carefully inspected each carcase and organs, but no evidence of disease was found warranting ...
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At such shops it is obvious that extra care has to be taken in inspecting the stock. Sometimes the Assistant Inspector sees the carcases being delivered at the shop; he is then able to make an examination of the carcase and organs before they are cut up. During the summer months nuisance sometimes arises through the ke...
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This is a difficult matter to deal with, because it is not an offence to remove such offensive matter at any other times provided the receptacle or vessel is properly constructed so as to prevent the escape of any offensive effluvia therefrom. While dealing with this matter of food supply, it would be appropriate to po...
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At the same time a Local Act should embody power enabling more than one Sanitary Inspector to be appointed to an Urban District, as in the Metropolitan Boroughs, thus increasing the efficiency of the administrative machinery. In both circumstances practically the same work is carried out. The disadvantages of the prese...
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Certificates have been granted to tradesmen, submitting the following articles of food for inspection, to enable them to secure the return of the purchase-money from the wholesale dealers: 1 box of catfish, 8 boxes of tomatoes, 1 trunk of haddocks, 3 boxes of kippers. With regard to the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, the...
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They are the officers who have any knowledge of the varying circumstances or know the itinerant traders who frequent the district. Fish frying is the only offensive trade, and is now controlled by Bye-laws. There are 7 such shops in the district. The Public Health Authority have received a complaint, signed by twelve h...
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of Notices servΒ»d. No. complied with. Fried Fish Shops 7 36 4 3 Slaughter Houses 1 8 - - Stable Yards 10 20 - - Houses let in Lodgings 43 129 28 28 73 Sanitary Administration. TABLE showing the number of certain places under the Council's supervision, and the visits made to them during 1914. BARNES. MORTLAKE. TOTALS. P...
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Adulterated, or deteriorated. Proceedings taken. Convictions Total Fines and Costs. Β£ S. d. Milk 89 79 10 3 3 26 4 0 Butter 18 14 4 1 1 7 15 6 Margarine 1 1 β€” β€” β€” 0 0 0 Flour β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Spirits β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - Cream β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Totals 108 94 14 4 4 Β£33 19 6 FOOD CONTAMI NATIONIt is very important that the large group of per...
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They should all know by this time that dust and dnrt convey the germs of disease, and it should require no great effort of the magination to picture the wily microbe having a "joy ride" on the back of a particle of dust as it is chivvied about from place to place. Milk should be supplied to every householder on the ste...
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Bread.β€”There is far too much handling of bread after it leaves the oven, and the final handling outside the house is often by a dirty boy who ought to be at school. Bread should invatiably be wrapped in paper before it leaves the shop for the van, the basket and the dirty hand. Meat.β€”Meat as a rule gets quite a " rind"...
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Dates are about the worst offenders in this respect. Sweets.β€” Sweets should not be exposed for sale uncovered, and Sanitary Administration. 75 put in the window for show. It is just as easy to cover sweets with glass. No doubt many young children become ill by eating infected and dirty sweets. TABLE SHOWING WORK DONE D...
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There were 6 deaths among residents from the following zymotic diseases:β€” Scarlet Fever 0 Diphtheria 0 Measles 1 Whooping Cough 0 Epidemic Diarrhoea 5 Typhoid Fever 0 6 This gives a Zymotic Death Rate of .17 per 1,000. 76 Sanitary Administration. Pulmonary Tuberculosis gives 31 deaths registered in the district, but af...
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As a result of this inspection 624 notices have been served, 15 closing orders have been made, and 3 demolition orders have been carried out. Report of the Inspectors appointed under the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. barnes. MORTLAKE. TOTALS. 1. No of dwelling houses which on inspection were considered to be in ...
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of houses demolished after closing orders β€” 3 3 77 Sanitary Administration. In the majority of cases the defects remedied were of a structural kind. 226 houses were cleansed, 37 yards were paved or repaired, 45 roofs and eaves gutters were repaired, 25 cases of dampness were remedied, and 4 cases of overcrowding abated...
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Fife Road. WORKING CLASS HOUSES. No. demolished in 1914 16 in Malthouse Area. No. built and occupied 14 β€ž β€ž No. now building 8 β€ž ,, No. of prospective new houses for workpeople 32 The rents of the houses (which are well appointed) varies from 7s. 6d. to 8s. 6d. per week. 78 Hospital Administration. HOUSE BUILDING GENER...
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4. In the Malthouse Area. 5. In the High Street, Barnes. In the Malthouse Area 16 of the old cottages have been pulled down, a new street called "Limes Avenue'' has been laid out, and 14 cottages have been built and occupied in the street. The work of pulling down the remaining cottages in this area, and erecting new c...
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79 The Resident Staff consists of The Matron, 2 Sisters, 7 Probationers, 3 Ward Maids, 1 Laundress, 1 Laundry Maid, 1 Cook, 1 Kitchen Maid 1 House Maid, 1 Lodge Keeper (Porter and Wife), The Porter is also Mortuary Keeper. Outdoor Staff: 1 Gardener. Lectures are given to the Probationers by the Matron and Medical Super...
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The hospital is excellently managed by the Matron, who is able to get the best results with the maximum of economy consistent with efficiency, and the district is well served in having such a competent and experienced Matron in charge of its hospital. Probably 1914 is a record in that we have lost no cases of infectiou...
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This was, in some cases, disadvantageous to the district, but at the same time the public should know that, even if a local authority builds and controls an Isolation Hospital, that authority is not legally bound to give way to the demands of any ratepayer for admission. In connection with this outbreak 1 reported as f...
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These cases should be isolated from the others, but our ward does not admit of this." Without going into a dissertation on the uses of an Isolation Hospital one can summarise as follows:β€” 1. An Isolation Hospital is of use to a district, when judiciously used, for those cases who cannot be satisfactorily isolated at ho...
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In connection with septic cases, should they occur in hospital, 1 have drawn up the following rules for the nurses:β€” RULES FOR SCARLET FEVER NURSING. 1. All newly admitted cases to be isolated as far as possible, or in some way kept aparc from the others for a fortnight. 2. Septic or dirty cases are not to mingle with ...
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Cases of ear discharge, nose discharge, neck glands, and kidney disease may be a direct reflection on the way the nurse does her duty. 7. Ward windows to be kept open in all weather. 8. All dressings and used wool to be burned at once. 82 Sanitary Administration. SCARLET FEVER.
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The following cases of Scarlet Fever were complicated or modified in some way:β€” Peeling on admission 8 Dental Caries 2 Abscess of Neck 1 Impetigo or other Skin disease 4 Nasal discharge 10 Albuminuria 5 Vaginitis 1 Ear discharge 9 Heart disease 1 Adenoids 9 Chorea 1 Enlarged Tonsils 18 *Mumps 1 β€ž Neck Glands 19 Conjunc...
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Probably no child with tonsils and adenoids will escape Scarlet Fever, and when he gets it he will have it badly with complications which may handicap him for life. The nursing of these cases is arduous and responsible, the convalescence prolonged and the result often unsatisfactory. This state of things will go on so ...
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Tracheotomy was required in one case, while another just escaped it by vomiting the membrane up. The complications were:β€” Tracheotomy 1 Mentally Defective 1 Serum Rash 2 Nasal Diphtheria 1 Paralysis 2 "Carrier" Cases 2 Scarlet Fever 1 Adenoids 1 Impetigo and other Skin disease 2 Enlarged Neck Glands 1 Nasal Discharge 1...
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The following Table shows the results of Bacteriological Examinations carried out by the Medical Officer of Health at the hospital during 1914:β€” Result. Diphtheria. Typhoid Fever. Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Other Diseases. Totals. Positive 59 β€” 65 14 138 Negative 84 3 56 8 151 Totals 143 3 121 22 289 It is proposed to giv...
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SHEWING CHIEFLY WORK DONE AT THE HOSPITAL. Sixty-six cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified in 1914, against 74 in 1913 and 107 in 1912, This shews a diminution in the number of cases over a period of three years, and should do much to assuage the fears in some minds that the district runs a danger in admitting ...
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Number of new cases seen in 1914 107 Total number of cases seen since Dispensary opened 327 Of the 107 cases, 57 passed a course of treatment, plus 20 cases carried on from 1913 77 Residents attending Dispensary for course of treatment in 1914 58 Non-residents attending Dispensary for course of 77 treatment in 1914 19 ...
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This diagram shows that on 17 weeks of the year no notifications of Consumption were received, and there appears to be no marked seasonal variations. Thirty-one deaths from this disease occurred during the year among residents. In addition to this, 7 cases have been transferred to us from other districts, and 12 deaths...
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Given cautiously no untoward results occur, and in the thousands of injections given at this Dispensary, there has never been a skin abscess. Malt and Oil is given to most of the cases, and palliative, expectorant and tonic medicinesβ€”and other treatment where found necessary. In Patients: Eighty-nine patients were admi...
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Hospital Administration. 89 These figures are explained by the fact that practically all the cases admitted have the disease in an advanced stage. On looking over the 77 patients admitted during 1913, we find that 36 are still alive, 36 are dead, and 5 are untraced. TUBERCULOSIS ADMINISTRATION. Judged from the standpoi...
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Sanatorium treatment is quite distinct from Hospital treatment, and as much so as Hospital treatment is distinct from Dispensary treatment. What can be done in Barnes ? 1. We can treat Hospital cases, i.e., advanced and brokendown cases in our wards. 2. We can treat early cases, and chronic resistant cases at our Dispe...
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Up to a certain point, yes, i.e., we can give him a month's open air treatment in a shelter in order to watch his progress. If the progress is satisfactory then he should be transferred to a Sanatorium proper, and there put through such physical outdoor culture as we cannot give him here. The air and surroundings moreo...
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Retain some shelters for observation purposes, and particularly for those patients whom we intend to draft shortly into a properly established Sanatorium where advanced cases are not treated. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SURREY C.C AND THE BARNES U.D.C. The County Council will during the continuance of this agreement establis...
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The District Council shall also provide for the Dispensary, Hospital and Shelters, all proper necessary and adequate furniture and equipment, drugs and appliances. The District Council will, at their own cost, maintain and keep during the continuance of this Agreement the said Dispensary, Hospital and Shelters with the...
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The County Council will pay to the District Council for or towards the maintenance and upkeep of institutional treatment by the District Council in the said dispensary hospital and shelters, the following sums:β€” (a) for dispensary treatment Β£100 per annum. 92 Hospital Administration. (b) for the services of a Health Vi...
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(e) for the like treatment of non-insured persons resident in other parts of the Administrative County the sum of thirty shillings per week inclusive of all charges. The result of the Agreement will be that at the end of 20 years the Ward Block and Dispensary becomes the property of this District Council, and that in c...
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The deaths from Tuberculosis of the lungs for the last two years are in excess of the average for the last ten years, but this is probably due to the compulsory notification of the disease Hospital Administration. 93 and more correct certification. With regard to deaths from other forms of Tuberculosis there is no mark...
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1914 34,745 26 8 34 0-98 1913 33,386 33 8 41 1-2 3-5 1912 32,000 28 5 33 1*3 1911 30,786 21 11 32 1-03 *1910 32,500 22 9 31 103 30,000 β€’β– =1909 30,500 23 1 24 0-83 29,000 1908 28,500 19 5 24 0-84 1907 28,000 18 6 24 0-85 1906 25,500 13 7 20 0-78 1905 24,250 30 9 39 1-60 1904 23,200 17 8 25 1-64 *Population over-estimate...
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In 1914 the notifications have been less than in the previous two years, and the resident deaths much less. Towards this improvement the Dispensary has, 1 venture to think, played its small part. 94 Hospital Administration. PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS CASES, 1914. TABLE shewing treatment of cases. Ages. Attending other hosp...
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2 1 4 - - - Note.β€”Totals do not correspond with No. notified. Total No. notified 67* Hygienic condition of premises Bad 10 Fair 22 Good 35 *Three of these are doubtful cases and one ease passing through Barnes only. NON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, 1914. Ages. Barnes. Mortlake. 1β€”15 8 9 15-25 β€” 1 25β€”45 2 3 46β€”65 β€” 1 95 PULM...
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Brewery Worker, Errand Boy. Club Grou'dm n Plumber. Unclassified occupations. No occupations. Married Women. 1 and under 15 - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - 14 β€” 15 and under 25 3 - 2 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 1 β€” - β€” 7 1 25 and under 45 3 1 4 1 1 β€” β€” 1 β€” 2 1 β€” 1 β€” - 1 5 45 and under 65 β€” β€” 3 β€” β€” 1 1 β€” 1 1 1 β€” β€” 1 β€” 1 5 65 and over...
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Total cases notified 67β€”1914. Deaths 26 β€ž β€ž 74β€”1913. β€ž 33 β€ž β€ž 106-1912. β€ž 28 Statistical Cables. 98 TABLE 1. Vital Statistics of whole District during 1914 and previous Years. Name of Districtβ€”Barnes Urban. Year Population estimated to middle of each year. Births. Total Deaths Registered in the District. Transferable D...
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28181 703 β€” 24.9 277 7.8 β€” 44 62 88 321 11.00 1910. 29437 682 β€” 23.1 215 7.3 β€” 44 47 69 259 9.1 1911. 30786 721 731 23.7 272 8.8 9 73 70 95 336 10.9 1912. 32000 679 700 21.8 220 69 11 82 41 58.5 291 9.0 1913. 33386 718 736 22.07 294 8.8 29 85 62 84.2 350 10.5 1914.
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34,745 734 754 21 7 276 7.9 28 88 48 63.6 336 9.6 Area of District in acres Total population at all ages 30,377 (land and inland 2,518 Number of inhabited houses 7,157 At Census of 1911 water). Average number of persons per house 4.2 TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1914. Notifiable Diseas...
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Plague - - - - - - - - - - - Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 56 β€” 7 24 13 7 5 - 17 39 40 Erysipelas 11 β€” β€” - 2 4 5 β€” 7 4 β€” Scarlet Fever 153 1 35 95 15 6 1 β€” 54 99 119 Typhus Fever β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” Enteric Fever 2 - - - - 1 1 - 1 1 2 Relapsing Fever - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Continued Fever Puerperal Fever β€” β€”...
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- Pulmonary Tuberculosis 66 β€” 2 13 14 22 14 1 22 44 13 Barnes 14 Other Hosp. 27 Other forms of Tuberculosis 22 1 7 7 1 6 β€” β€” 9 13 - Totals 312 4 51 139 45 46 26 1 110 202 188 Isolation Hospitalβ€”South Worple Way, Mortlake. S.W. Tuberculosis Dispensary, Hospital Block and Sheltersβ€”South Worple Way, Mortlake. 100 TABLE II...
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5 and under 15. 15 and under 25 25 and under 45. 45 and under 65. 65 and upwards. All Causes (certified) 364 48 7 11 6 19 59 100 114 β€” Enteric Fever β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” Small-pox β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” - - - β€” Measles 1 β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” - β€” β€” - Scarlet Fever - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Whooping Cough 4 3 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” Diphtheria and Croup β€” β€”...
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12) Tuberculous Meningitis 4 2 2 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - Other tuberculous diseases 4 β€” 1 1 1 1 β€” β€” - β€” Cancer, malignant disease 34 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 5 9 20 β€” Rheumatic Fever 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” Meningitis 1 β€” β€” 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Organic Heart Disease 39 β€” - - 1 1 7 16 1 1 101 meningitis - β€” * 1 Organic Heart Disease 39 β€” β€” 1 1 7 16 1 β€” Br...
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1 β€” - β€” β€” - - Appendicitis and Typhlitis 3 β€” β€” 1 β€” - 1 1 β€” - Cirrhosis of Liver 10 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 3 7 - - Alcoholism - - - - - - - - - - Nephritis and Bright s Disease 10 - β€” - - - - 5 5 - Puerperal fever β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” - Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition 3 - 1 - - - 2 - - - Congenital Debility an...
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excluding Suicide 21 1 - - - 4 4 9 3 - Suicide 4 β€” β€” - - - 1 2 1 - Other defined diseases 113 13 - 3 β€” 4 19 23 51 - Diseases ill-defined or unknown - - β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” - Totals 364 48 7 11 6 19 59 100 114 - Inquestsβ€”Residents, 27 ; Non-Residents, 17; Total, 44. 102 TABLE IV. Infant Mortality during the Year 1914. Nett De...
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All Causes (certified) . 9 1 2 6 18 12 10 6 2 48 Small-pox - - - - - - - - - - Chicken-pox β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” - β€” - β€” Measles β€” - β€” - - - β€” β€” β€” β€” Scarlet Fever - - - - - - - - - - Whooping Cough β€” β€” - - β€” 1 1 1 β€” 3 Diphtheria and Croup β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” - β€” β€” Erysipelas β€” β€” β€” β€” - - β€” β€” β€” β€” Tuberculous Meningitis β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” 1 1 β€”...
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β€” β€” - - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - Bronchitis β€” β€” β€” - - β€” - 1 β€” 1 Pneumonia (all forms) β€” β€” - - β€” - 3 3 - 6 103 DiarrhΕ“a β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 3 2 β€” β€” 5 Enteritis β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” β€” - 1 Gastritis β€” - 1 1 2 1 β€” β€” β€” 3 Syphilis β€” 1 β€” 1 2 2 β€” β€” β€” 4 Rickets β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Suffocation,
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overlying β€” β€” β€” 1 1 β€” 1 β€” β€” 2 Injury at birth β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - Atelectasis β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - Congenital Malformations 3 β€” 1 β€” 4 β€” β€” β€” β€” 4 Premature Birth 5 β€” β€” 1 6 β€” β€” β€” β€” 6 Atrophy, Debility, and Marasmus β€” β€” β€” 2 2 3 1 β€” 1 7 Other Causes 1 - - - 1 1 1 - 1 4 Totals 9 1 2 6 18 12 10 6 2 48 Nett Births in the year L...
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CT AC4413(I)BARAES BARN (Later Mun.B.) Annual Report on the Health, Sanitary Conditions, etc., of the URBAN DISTRICT OF BARNES, for the Year 1916. by B. C. Stevens, a.d,, f.r.cs.e., d.p.h., Medical Officer of Health Barnes, S.W R. W. Simpson & Co., Ltd., Printers, 15 High Street, 1917. Urban District Council ot Barnes....
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Staff. Medical Officer of Health, Medical Superintendent of Isolation Hospital, Tuberculosis Officer, etc. Bertram Crossfield Stevens, F.R.C.&. (Kdin.j, D.P.H (Oxon.), M.D.. M.S. (Dunelm), L.R.C.P. (Lond.) Assistant School Medical Officer Surrey Education Committee. Medical Officer, Child Welfare Centre and Day Nursery...
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067 acres β€ž Mortlalse 1,583 β€ž 2,650 Tidal waters of foreshore 133 2,517 *Population (approximately) 34,745 *Birth Rate 164 per 1,000 Residential Death Rate for 1916 7.3 , After adding deaths of residents * district Death dying outside the district and' q.ij Rate for 1916b deducting those of noil.residents i ' " (.dying...
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in the Β£ for District Rate Purposes produces Β£1,047. ANNUAL REPORT. The Council House, Mortlake, S.W. The Chairman ami Members oj the Barnes Urban District Council. Gentlemen, I beg to submit my annual report for 1916. This year the tables of Vital Statistics will be compiled by the Registrar General. My duty, therefor...
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1 am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, January, 1917 B. C. Stevens. 6 Vital Statistics. VITAL STATISTICS. The Registrar General is undertaking this duty this year, and his tables will be found in an appendix to the Report. The population I still estimate as the same as in 1914, viz. 34,745. The exodus of men being cou...
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The Deaths of residents in the district number 256, compared with 287 in 1915. This gives a residential death rate of 7.3 per 1,000, compared with 8'2 in 1915. This is a strictly residential death rate, and does not include people who have died elsewhere and given a Barnes or Mortlake address. This rate is 9.7, compare...
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Deaths From Cancer number 29, compared with 22 in 1916. The number of illegitimate births number 24, with 11 deaths, compared with 27 in 1915, with 14 deaths. VACCINATION AND SMALL.POX. Fifteen per cent, of the school children are unvaccinated, and exemption certificates are obtained for 25 per cent, of all children bo...
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The notifications of infectious disease were considerably m lower than in the previous year. Measi.es and German Measles. The compulsory notification of these diseases began in January, 1916. 229 cases of Measles and 200 cases of German Measles were notified either by parent or doctor. That there were only two deaths s...
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The notice states that:β€” " The above regulations came into operation on 1st January, 1916, and shall then apply and have effect in this district and shall be enforced and executed by the Local Authority. " The object of the Public Health (Measles and German Measles) Regulations, 1915, and of the requirement as to notif...
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(d) The patientβ€”often feeling perfectly wellβ€”is not going to be properly isolated for 3 weeks. (e) The disease need not be confused with ordinary Measles, and is in fact quite dissimilar With regard to Measles the case is very different:β€” (a) It is a dangerous disease to infancy. {b) It requires careful nursing. (c) It...
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Between one-half and two-thirds occurred in children of school age, and one-fourth in youth and adult age in equal proportion. The large proportion of cases among school children would seem to indicate that if notification was useful in their cases, it was in enforcing absence from school until the period of infectivit...
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Disinfection is not done as a routine measure in all cases, but only if desired or thought necessary. One infant school only was closed during the present outbreak. The outbreak this year has been mild, whereas in 1915 there were more severe cases. The poorer parts of the district have been singularly exempt. LOCAL GOV...
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81 of these were removed to hospital, 77 to the Council's Isolation Hospital, and 4 to other hospitals. One was a military case, and one was wrongly diagnosed, and turned out to be cellulitis of the neck, and died of pycemia. There were no deaths in the District from Scarlet Fever. A small outbreak in one school necess...
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Enteric Fever, Thanks to pure water and sound drainage enteric or typhoid fever continues to remain almost a negligible quantity in the District. Two cases were notifiedβ€”one was removed to hospital, the other nursed at homeβ€”both recovered. Erysipelas. The notification of this disease to the Public Health Authority is n...
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Three cases were notified, and one removed to hospital. One case was fatal. This disease is spread by " carriers " only, and is likely to occur where there is overcrowding. Tuberculosis. 11 The organism causing Cerebro-Spinal Fever can be detected either by swabbing the throat or by withdrawing fluid from the spinal co...
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During 1916, 120 new cases attended the Dispensary for diagnosis or treatment, many of whom were found not to be tubercular. In addition to these, 47 were carried over from 1915 for further treatment. In the hospital 30 of the more advanced local cases were treated. From my experience of this disease the following dedu...
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That I have no faith in domiciliary treatment, and that the man who can run a working man's home on Sanatorium lines is a genius, and that it cannot be done, or anything approaching it, so long as human nature is what it is. 12 Tuberculosis. That the advanced case wants humouring, for his mentality is often unstable an...
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Tuberculin is not required at all where the patient can be got to do graded work under medical supervision, which at present is only possible in a Sanatorium. That a number of gardeners appear among the patients, and that the soil or manure they work in may be a contributory factor. That patients should not be sent to ...
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(d) Destroys all expectoration ; (e) Convinces his employer that with reasonable care he is not infectious. That the question of employment after discharge is a difficult one, with barriers of prejudice and ignorance to be first broken down. On the other hand one has to balance the hope of the patient taking advantage ...
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That cases of blood-spitting and pleurisy are nearly all tubercular, and that influenza, followed by pneumonia, is often the forerunner of tuberculosis. That one-fourth of the patients admitted to a hospital for advanced cases have previously had institutional treatment without any permanent benefit. That so long as th...
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(a) Every Medical Officer of Health shall send to the Army Council, Whitehall, London, in the form shown on the Schedule in this Order, a list containing the names and other specified particulars of all tuberculosis male persons entered in the register kept by the Medical Officer of Health in pursuance of sub-division ...
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The Tuberculosis (Domiciliary Treatment in England) Order of 1916 states that from January, 1917, with regard to cases of consumption treated at home :β€” Article II.β€”The treatment shall be carried out under the care and direction of a Medical Practitioner, subject to the following conditions, and to such other condition...
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(3) That the Medical Practitioner prepare and transmit to the Consulting Officer at such reasonable intervals, not being less often than than once in every three months, as may be arranged between them, a report in regard to each patient in the Form set forth in the Schedule to these Regulations. (4) That the Medical P...
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15 sanitary conditions under which the patient is living, and in respect to which action by the Medical Officer of Health or of the Sanitary Authority would, in the opinion of the Medical Practitioner, be necessary or desirable. VENEREAL DISEASES. The treatment of these diseases on the basis of voluntary notification b...
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Cancer is a new growth arising generally at the site of tissues subjected to prolonged irritation, as in the breast, the tongue, the lips, the entrance and exit to the stomach, various angles and narrow places in the intestines, also the liver. It may also supervene on the irritation or erosion set up by ulcers or othe...
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The Staff consists of the Matron, one Sister, six Probationers, Domestic and Laundry Staff, Ward Maids, Porter and Portress, and two Gardeners. There is accommodation for fifty patients in all. Tuberculosis Wards. β€”14 patients were carried over from 1915, and of these 5 died during 1916. 70 fresh cases were admitted du...
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23 patients were sent on to Hospital or Sanatorium. 123 visits were paid to patients' homes. Scarlet Fever.β€”13 cases were carried over from 1915. 77 cases, including 1 soldier, were admitted in 1916 with no deaths; 1 case of cellulitis sent in as a case of scarlet fever was fatal. Diphtheria.β€”Only 25 cases were admitte...
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Heavy Articles 105 Smaller Kit 123 228 These articles were brought and fetched by the Military Authorities. HOSPITAL DISINFECTION. Two changes of clothing disinfected for all patients and in serious cases, the bedding also. After death of a consumptive patient the bedding is disinfected. MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT. 3...
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Arising out of the fact that soldiers were billetted in the District, the following instructions were printed and circulated:β€” TREATMENT FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN. Arrangements should be made for the bathing of affected individuals and other inmates of infected tents and houses. Two teaspoonfuls of " Kerol " or " J...
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All clothes and kit will be disinfected at the Isolation Hospital, South Worple Way, Mortlake. Infected bed linen can be dealt with by hanging on lines and the room fumigated with sulphur candles. Cresol Soap Solution is made as follows Jeyes' Fluid, 1Β½ ozs.; soft soap (or cheap vaseline), lbs.; and water, 10 gallons A...
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19 MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. As this is the paramount subject in public health administration this year, it will be referred to more fully than other subjects. The Urban Council, having recognised the importance of the whole question of life-saving, has made considerable progress recently. The Child Welfare Scheme h...
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1 his is essentially a war-time scheme, and it is generally admitted that, in natural times, the place of the mother is at home with her children, except in a few exceptional cases. In the same house the Surrey Educational Committee hold their medical, ophthalmic, dental, and attendance clinics for the school children ...
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If this scheme was amalgamated with the one proposed by the Child Welfare Committee, viz., providing a bed for a complicated or necessitious case of pregnancy, one half the cost is recoverable from the Local Government Board. 20 Infant Welfare. With reference to the above paragraph, the Sub-Committee suggest that shoul...
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To avoid this in future I got the Registrar to furnish me weekly with the names and addresses of all children born in the district, with the result that the figure (140) has been reduced to 28 in 1916. ANTE-NATAL WORK. The progress in this direction is slow, but is gradually improving, the difficulty being to get knowl...
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The Health Visitor visits all the expectant mothers she hears of, and gives them verbal and printed advice on diet, abuse of stimulants, work and leisure, rest and sleep, fresh air, cleanliness, and preparation for confinement, and encourages them to come to the Centre and bring the baby as soon as they can go out. In ...
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The very poor never have bought much milk, using chiefly the condensed milk. They have only had a half-pennyworth or a pennyworth at a time, so that they have not felt the increased price of 2d. per quart. The better class of people still get the same quantity as before, not feeling the extra price of milk so much as s...