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1 2 - - Gastritis - - - β€” - β€” β€” β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” Syphilis - - - β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” - 1 β€” 1 1 β€” β€” Rickets - - β€” β€” β€” β€” - β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Atropyh Debility and Marasmus - - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 1 - - Premature Birth 3 - β€” - 3 1 β€” β€” β€” 4 β€” 4 1 3 2 Congenital Malformations 2 1 - - 3 - - - - 3 2 1 3 - - Injury at Birth β€” - β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” - ...
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2 β€” β€” β€” 2 β€” β€” β€” 2 2 2 β€” 2 β€” - Other causes β€” 1 β€” 1 2 β€” 1 β€” β€” 3 2 1 2 1 1 All causes 11 3 - 2 16 5 4 1 3 29 11 18 2 3 6 5 Nett Births in the Year: Total Births, 574; Legitimate,548; Illegitimate, 26. Nett Deaths (under 1 year): Total Deaths, 29; Legitimate Infants, 21; Illegitimate Infants, 8. Infantile Mortality Rate: ...
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There were 548 births of legitimate children during 1922, and only 21 deaths occurred amongst legitimate infants under one year of age, whereas in the case of illegitimate infants, whilst there were only 26 illegitimate births, the number of deaths of illegitimate infants numbered 8 in the year. This gives an Infantile...
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Infantile Mortahtw Deaths of Legitimate Infants per 1,000 Legitimate Births. Deaths of Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 Illegitimate Births. 1914 50 63 83 1915 43 65 519 1916 52 48 380 1917 81 54 238 1918 86 83 132 1919 51 70 461 1920 41 56 312 1921 51 58 182 1922 45 38 308 In the ease of all illegitimate births notified...
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The following are the Infectious Diseases cumpulsorily notifiable in the District, and the number of cases notified during 1922 is given for each disease. Diphtheria 65 Scarlet Fever 100 Enteric Fever β€” Puerperal Fever 1 Erysipelas 6 Continued Fever β€” Relapsing Fever β€” Typhus Fever β€” Small Pox β€” Cholera β€” Plague Tuberc...
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Erysipelas Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Measles. Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis. Puerperal Fever January 28 6 16 4 1 β€” 42 3 β€” – February 28 8 13 2 β€” 114 9 1 β€” March 25 2 13 3 β€” 1 239 6 1 β€” April 22 7 5 3 β€” β€” 87 4 3 β€” May 20 15 12 4 2 – 48 5 1 β€” June 17 2 10 1 β€” β€” 16 6 β€” β€” July 15 5 4 1 β€” 1 5 2 3 1 August ...
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1 3 2 β€” β€” November 4 5 6 3 β€” β€” 5 4 β€” β€” December 2 2 4 2 3 β€” β€” 1 β€” β€” December 31 4 1 β€” β€” β€” 5 2 β€” Totals 65 100 29 6 3 590 52 10 1 16 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Table showing the distribution in age-groups of the cases notified during 1922, the number of cases removed to hospital, and the total numbers of deaths in ...
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25 to 35 35 to 45. 45 to 65. 65 and over. Barnes Mortlake. Diphtheria 65 β€” β€” 3 2 2 25 17 8 3 2 2 1 β€” 23 42 61 3 Scarlet Fever 100 β€” 3 2 2 3 39 29 10 6 4 1 1 β€” 44 56 85 4 Puerperal Fever 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” 1 Pneumonia 29 2 2 β€” β€” β€” 5 2 β€” 1 2 5 9 1 5 24 β€” 25 Erysipelas 6 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 1 β€” 1 1 1 1 β€” 2 4 1 1 Op...
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β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” 2 β€” Measles 590 13 57 37 29 37 367 40 7 1 2 β€” β€” β€” 193 397 β€” 2 Tuberculosis: (a) Pulmonary M. 24 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 2 2 β€” 2 7 6 5 β€” 12 12 β€” 14 F. 28 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 β€” 4 4 9 7 1 1 10 18 β€” 13 Total 52 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 3 3 4 6 16 13 6 1 22 30 23‑ 27 (b) Non- Pulmonary M. 3 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 1 2 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 2 1 β€” 1 F.
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7 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 3 β€” 1 1 2 β€” β€” β€” 2 5 β€” 2 Total 10 β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” 4 2 1 1 2 β€” β€” β€” 4 6 β€” 3 All Diseases ... 856 18 62 42 33 42 444 94 30 19 29 23 18 2 294 562 171 96 ‑ 23 Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients were removed to Institutionsβ€”14 to Sanatoriums and 9 to Barnes Isolation Hospital. Β§ The deaths recorded in this column are the t...
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17 For purposes of comparison of the incidence of notifiable diseases occurring in the District, a Table is given below of the cases notified during 1922 and during the previous 10 years. Year. 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 Diphtheria 56 67 56 41 34 28 29 42 103 90 65 Scarlet Fever 109 95 153 1...
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Fever β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Typhus Fever β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Small-pox β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Cholera β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Plague β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” β€” Tuberculosis, P. 106 74 66 60 55 54 58 44 35 52 52 β€ž Non-P. β€” 28 22 9 β€” 14 17 12 6 4 10 Cerebrospinal Fever β€” β€” β€” β€” 3 4 2 2 β€” β€” β€” Poliomyelitis 1 2 β€” 4 3 β€” 1 β€” β€” β€” β€” ...
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570 44 590 Encephalitis Lethargica (Not Notifiable) 2 1 5 β€” Polio encephalitis β€ž β€ž β€ž β€” β€” β€” β€” Malaria β€ž β€ž β€ž 18 12 β€” β€” Dysentry β€ž β€ž β€ž 1 1 β€” β€” Trench Fever β€ž β€ž β€ž 3 1 β€” β€” Pneumonia β€ž β€ž β€ž 67 35 34 29 Anthrax β€ž β€ž β€ž β€” β€” β€” β€” 18 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. DIPHTHERIA. The usually severe epidemic of Diphtheria which commence...
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An outbreak of limited proportions occurred during April and May, but from then onwards until the end of the year the number of cases occurring were comparatively few. The number of cases notified during the year was 65, of which 61, or 94 per cent. of the cases, were removed to Hospital; only 4 cases were treated at h...
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Three deaths occurred, representing a mortality rate per 100 cases of 4.61, compared with a rate of 8.00 per cent. for England and Wales, and 7.44 per cent. for London. Of three fatal cases one died 3 days after admission from acute toxæmia; in the other two cases death was due to heart failure associated with diphther...
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To enable an early diagnosis to be arrived at and to secure prompt administration of antitoxic serum, Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 19 logical outfits are supplied, and inoculated swabs from suspected cases are examined bacteriologically by the Public Health Department for Medical Practitioners free of charge, and di...
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In no instance did another occupant of the house become infected after removal of the patient to Hospital and subsequent disinfection of the premises had been carried out, and in no instance did a second case occur subsequent to a patient's return home after discharge from Hospital. Table showing thenumberof notificati...
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Number of cases treated at home January 28 6 6 β€” February 25 8 7 1 March 25 2 2 β€” April 23 7 7 β€” May 20 15 14 1 June 17 2 2 β€” July 15 5 3 2 August 12 6 6 β€” September 9 2 2 β€” October 7 1 1 β€” November 4 5 5 β€” December 2 2 2 β€” December 31 4 4 β€” Total 65 61 4 20 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Table showing the number of c...
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Incidence Kate. Cases per 1,000 of Population. Percentage Removed to Hospital. lity Rate per 100 cases.
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1913 67 43 2 2.01 64 % 3.00 1914 56 40 β€” 1.61 71 0.00 1915 41 32 1 1.22 78 2.44 1916 34 25 1 1.06 74 2.94 1917 28 27 1 0.86 96 3.57 1918 29 28 3 0.89 97 10.34 1919 42 38 4 1.27 90 9.52 1920 103 56 7 3.07 54 6.80 1921 90 77 1 2.88 84 1.10 1922 65 61 3 1.90 94 4.61 SCARLET FEVER.
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Scarlet Fever was epidemic in the District at the commencement of the year 1922. The severe epidemic which had occurred in the last quarter of 1921 was then on the decline, and the number of fresh cases continued to decrease through the first four months of the year; there was a slight increase in prevalence of the dis...
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Four deaths occurred, representing a mortality-rate per Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 21 100 cases of 4 00, compared with a rate of 1.40 per cent. for England and Wales and of 1.74 per cent. for London. A larger proportion than usual of the cases admitted were suffering from the disease in a severe form; in several o...
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In 5 families two cases of the disease occurred in each (in each of these families the second case had become infected from the first case before the latter's removal to Hospital). In one instance, where two families occupied separate floors in one house, investigations following the notification of a case of scarlet-f...
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Table showing the number of Notifications of Scarlet Fever received during 1922, the number of cases removed to Hospital, and the number of cases treated at home arranged in four-weekly periods:β€” Four weekly period ending Number of cases notified. Number of cases removed to Hospital Number of cases, treated at home.
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January 28 16 13 3 February 25 13 11 2 March 25 13 13 β€” April 22 5 3 2 May 20 12 9 3 June 17 10 6 4 July 15 4 4 β€” August 13 7 7 β€” September 9 3 3 β€” October 7 6 6 β€” November 4 6 5 1 December 2 4 4 β€” December 31 1 1 β€” Totals 100 85 15 Table showing the number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified and the incidence-rate (cas...
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Incidence Rate Cases per 1,000 of Population. Percentage removed to Hospital. Mortality Pate per 100 Cases.
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1913 95 82 β€” 2.85 86 0.00 1914 153 119 β€” 4.40 78 0.00 1915 137 111 3 4.09 81 2.19 1916 94 81 2 2.94 86 2.13 1917 37 35 β€” 1.12 95 0.00 1918 32 25 1 0.99 78 3.13 1919 88 63 β€” 2.65 72 0.00 1920 69 57 1 2.02 83 1.45 1921 108 83 1 3.18 77 0.92 1922 100 85 4 2.93 85 4.00 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 23 ENTERIC FEVER.
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No case of Enteric Fever occurred in the District during 1922. The comparative freedom of the District from Enteric Fever is significant and is undoubtedly due to the safety of the water supply and to the almost universal adoption throughout the District of a water carriage system of sewage disposal. Cases occurring in...
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No case of Small-pox occurred in this District. During the year 962 cases were notified in England and Wales, and the disease was present in the Country throughout the year. An outbreak occurred in the County of London in September, and cases continued to arise in London, and in some of the surrounding Sanitary Distric...
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24 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Vaccination. The following return as to Vaccination during 1922, has been supplied to me by the Vaccination Officer for the District:β€” Births 524 Certificates of successful Vaccination 528 Certificates of exemption (statutory declarations) 157 Certificates of Insusceptibility 1 Remova...
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An outbreak of Measles occurred at the commencement of the year, rapidly assuming epidemic proportions. During January 42 cases were notified, during February 114 cases, and during March the number notified reached the high figure of 239 The number of cases then rapidly decreased, 87, 48 and 16 cases respectively being...
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The attack rate of measles is usually highest in the third, fourth and fifth years of life, whilst the death rate caused by the Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 25 disease is highest in the first and second years of life. After the age of five years the death rate caused by it is relatively very small. It is therefore o...
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The number of cases notified in each of the previous 5 years was in 1917, 743 cases; 1918, 620 cases; 1919, 159 cases; in 1920, 570 cases; and in 1921, 44 cases respectively. Two deaths occurred, corresponding to a death-rate of 0.06 per 1,000 of the population, contrasted with 0.35 for London, and 0.15 for England and...
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Notification is obligatory upon the parent unless the case has been already notified by a Medical Practitioner in attendance. Unfortunately in many cases a doctor is not called in, and, in a certain proportion of these, the parent fails to notify the case to the Medical Officer of Health. It is on this account that the...
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A school cannot be expected to be other than a potent agent in the spread of infectious disease unless there is this co-operation between Head Teachers and the Public Health Department. PNEUMONIA. The number of cases notified in 1921 was 29, contrasted with 67, 35 and 34 respectively in 1919, 1920 and 1921. Priorto 191...
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ERYSIPELAS. Six cases only of Erysipelas were notified, and 1 death occurred from this disease. The number of notifications for each of the previous 5 years being 8, 2, 13, 13 and 6 respectively. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Three cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified, contrasted with 3, 3, 2, 3 and 1 respectively in ...
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum is the cause of the blindness of over 40 per cent. of the inmates of our Institutions for the Blind. In consequence of its importance the disease was made notifiable by doctors and midwives in 1914. I am convinced that a certain proportion of these cases are not notified in accordance with the req...
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The number of notifications from this disease during the previous 10 years is shown in the table on page 17. The number of deaths assignable to this district, after correction for transferable deaths, from Tuberculosis was 30 (27 being due to the pulmonary form of the disease and 3 to the non-pulmonary form), represent...
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Of the 7 non-notified deaths 5 were "Inward Transfers," these deaths from tuberculosis having occurred outside the District; inquiries from the Medical Officer of Health of the districts in which the deaths took place showed that the cases had not been notified in those districts. Two of the non-notified deaths were th...
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(2) Sputum outfits are supplied for the patient's use if required. (3) Disinfectants are supplied from the Public Health Department. (4) Disinfection at the home is carried out after death, or on a patient's admission to an institution, and on such other occasions as are necessary. (5) To assist in the early diagnosis ...
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Close co-operation between the Medical Officer of Health and the Tuberculosis Officer has been laid stress upon by the Ministry of Health as being essential, and the Ministry suggested that the Tuberculosis Officer should, for the purpose of Tuberculosis Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 29 Regulations, act as an Officer...
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Patients attend under the following circumstances:β€” (1) Cases attending for examination for the purpose of diagnosis. (2) Contacts attending for examination and observation. (3) Doubtful cases attending for re-examination and further observation until a diagnosis is made. (4) Patients suffering from tuberculosis who ar...
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The total number of attendances made by patients during the year was 513. 30 Notifiable Infectious Diseases. The number of patients recommended from the Dispensary for institutional treatment was 23; 9 being admitted to a Hospital for advanced cases and 14 sent away to Sanatoriums. Tuberculosis Blockβ€”Isolation Hospital...
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Total cases under treatment during 1922 21 20 41 10 31 Patients under treatment on January 1st, 1922 2 2 4 l 3 Patients admitted during the year 19 18 37 9 28 Patients discharged 9 14 23 6 17 Transferred to sanatorium 2 1 3 1 2 Returned home 7 13 20 5 15 Patients died 7 2 9 3 6 Patients still under treatment, December ...
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Of the 41 cases under treatment during the year, 10 were residents from the Barnes Urban District, and 31 were admitted from other Sanitary Areas in Surrey. Three of the patients so far improved under treatment as to admit of their transference to a Sanatorium. Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases. 31 Twenty patients wer...
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NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND OTHER CAUSES OF SICKNESS. There have during the year been no cases under this heading of sickness and invalidity which have been specially noteworthy in the District, with the exception of whooping-cough and influenza. WHOOPING COUGH. Whooping-cough was prevalent during the first ...
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There were 4 deaths from this disease representing a deathrate of 0.12 per 1,000 of population, contrasted with a death-rate of 0.25 for London and 0.16 for England and Wales 32 Maternity and Child Welfare. INFLUENZA. Influenza was again prevalent in this District in 1922, and was of a severe type in a large proportion...
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The following is a summary regarding Poor Law Relief for persons in this District during the year 1922:β€” (1) The number of orders issued for Medical Attendance 177 (2) The number of orders issued for sion to the Workhouse and Infirmary 143 (3) The number of deaths which have occurred amongst Barnes and Mortlake residen...
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In practice, part of the services, namely, the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics and the Home Visiting, are undertaken by Maternity and Child Welfare. 33 the Medical Officer of Health, as Medical Officer to the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, and by two Health Visitors, whose duties also include other branches of...
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Infant welfare work during 1922 has been very thoroughly carried out, and has undoubtedly been effective in assisting to secure the very favourable low death-rate amongst infants for the year. The work carried out is summarised below:β€” Home-Visiting. The homes of all newly-born infants amongst the working classes have ...
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Of the 504 infants whose births were notified, 345 were visited in their homes by the Health Visitors, and 358 re-visits were made to the homes of such of those infants as appeared to require "following-up." It will be seen that 68 per cent. of the total births notified were home visited; a very satisfactory proportion...
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All infants and children at their first attendance at the Clinic, and subsequently whenever appearing to be ailing or not making satisfactory progress, have been seen by the Medical Officer, and advice given to the parents. Educational work, which is essential to the proper conduct of an Infant Welfare Centre, has been...
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The number of new cases, the total number of infants and young children attending at the Centre, and the total attendances made by them during the year are set out below:β€” Number of new cases under 1 year 130 Number of new cases, 1 to 5 years 45 Total new cases (infants and children β€” under 5 years) 175 Maternity and C...
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I called attention above to the fact that 63 per cent. of all births notified were home-visited. It is satisfactory to note that, as a result of these home-visits, in 40 per cent. of the infants visited the mothers were induced to bring their babies to the Child Welfare Centre. It is evident from an analysis of the abo...
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As so much of the mortality amongst infants occurs during the first few weeks of life, ante-natal work is of the utmost importance. Other Services provided under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act. The other services for which the County Council make provision under the Maternity and Child Welfare Act, are administere...
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Convalescent homes for mothers and their infants. Homes for widowed, deserted and unmarried mothers, and for illegitimate children. The County Council accept responsibility for charges incurred in the provision of the above services provided that the charges are reasonable and the parents contribute according to their ...
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It is important to remember that it becomes difficult to prevent the spread of infectious diseases where numbers of very susceptible young children under 5 years of age are in frequent and close contact. The younger the children the greater is the mortality from these diseases, especially Measles or Whooping-cough: nin...
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In order to prevent as far as possible the spread of infectious and contagious diseases amongst children at the Day Nursery I instituted, in co-operation with the Committee of the Day Nursery, arrangements whereby inquiry would be made as to the reason for absence in the case of every child ceasing to attend at the Nur...
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There are 14 Public Elementary Schools and 19 Private Schools in the District. Both the Public Elementary and the Private Schools have been inspected by the Sanitary Inspector and, in addition, for the purpose of special investigations, by me personally. The water supply, sanitary accommodation and general sanitary con...
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There are approximately 3,500 children in attendance at the 14 Public Elementary Schools, and the medical inspection of these children has been carried out by me under the Surrey County Council Scheme. The general inspection of the children for defective conditions requiring parental attention has been carried out by t...
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Inspection of children in the Public Elementary Schools, 2. Attendance at (a) School Clinics; (b) Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics; (c) Tuberculosis Dispensary. Health Visitors. 39 3. Home-visiting in connection with:β€” Notified Births; Child Welfare in respect of children under 5 years; School children found defecti...
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Schools Inspected 14 14 Visits to Schools for Inspection of Children 565 508 Inspections of Children for defects 29,187 29,401 Children excluded for verminous conditions 390 257 Home visits to defective Children School Clinics. 153 246 Attendances by Health Visitors at School Clinics 251 164 Attendances by Children at ...
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Attendances by Health Visitors at the Dispensary 114 103 Home visits to Tuberculosis patients 76 325 Infectious Diseases. Home visits to cases of infectious disease 91 422 The amount of work in the District to be undertaken by Health Visitors is very large, and more than two Health Visitors are necessary to effectively...
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No provision has been made for the actual nursing of cases of infectious disease in the homes of the poor. The services of the above-mentioned District Nurses are not available, as they are debarred from attendance on patients suffering from infectious diseases. Cases of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, or Enteric Fever are ...
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There are nine Midwives practising in the Districtβ€”four of these are resident within the District, and five, although resident outside the Urban District, occasionally practise in Barnes. There are no Midwives working in the District employed by or subsidised by a Public Health Authority, and I do not consider such pro...
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(a) Situated in the District: Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic Technical Institute, North Worple Way, Mortlake Thursday, 2.30 Surrey County Council School Clinicsβ€” Attendance Clinic β€ž Monday, 10 β€ž Minor Ailments Clinic β€ž Wednesday, 2 β€ž Eye Clinic β€ž Monday, 2 β€ž Dental Clinic β€ž Tuesday, 2 β€ž Tuberculosis Dispensary Sout...
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(1) Tuberculosisβ€” (a) Institution situated within the District. Barnes Isolation Hospital By agreement between the Surrey County Council and the Barnes Urban District Council, a Tuberculosis Pavilion containing 12 beds, to accommodate 6 male and 6 female patients, is provided for the reception of cases from Barnes Dist...
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Royal National Hospital, Ventnor. Royal National Sanatorium, Bournemonth. St. Catherine's Home, Sanatorium, Ventnor. Hospitals: Alexandra Hospital for Children suffering from HipDiseases. Brompton Hospital. City of London Hospital, Victoria Park. Lord Mayor Treloar's Hospital, Alton, for surgical cases only. Royal Sea ...
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Reigate and Redhill Hospital. Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Marylebone. South London Hospital for Women, Clapham Common. (3) Children's Hospital. There is no Hospital situated within the District for the treatment of diseases of children. The Royal Hospital, Richmond, the...
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The Barnes Isolation Hospital, situated in South Worple Way, Mortlake, is provided by the Council for the treatment of cases of infectious disease, and has accommodation (on the Ministry of Health's basis) for 40 cases apportioned as follows:β€” 12 beds for Scarlet Fever, 14 beds for Diphtheria. 14 beds for the purpose o...
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Use is made of the Richmond and Putney Hospitals, and of the General and Special Hospitals situated in the County of London. Increased facilities for both in-patient and out-patient treatment of cases of non-infectious diseases are urgently required, and, here again, as in connection with the lack of provision for the ...
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A motor ambulance in place of the last-mentioned horse-drawn ambulance would be far more efficient; it would enable patients to be more promptly removed into hospital, a very important step particularly in times of epidemic. (b) For Non-infectious and Accident Cases. The Council have provided a motor-ambulance which is...
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Pathological outfits are provided by the Council for practitioners' use, and specimens sent by medical practitioners from patients in the district are examined free of charge. Examinations undertaken during the year amounted to 688, for diphtheria bacilli 525, for tubercle bacilli 163. Diphtheria antitoxin is supplied ...
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In addition to carrying out the duties of Medical Officer of Health of the Barnes Urban District, 1 act as Medical Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital and as Tuberculosis Officer for the District, and also carry out the work of School Medical Inspection and Maternity and Child Welfare, under the Surrey County Coun...
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There are two whole-time Health Visitors employed in the District: their duties include those of School Nurse and Tuberculosis Nurse, work under the Notification of Births Act, and in connection with Maternity and Child Welfare and Infectious Diseases. Both Health Visitors are trained nurses and hold the Certificate of...
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The Officers to whose salary contribution is made under the Public Health Acts or by Exchequer Grants are the Medical Officer of Health, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, and the two Health Visitors. 46 10. SANITARY ADMINISTRATION. The fallowing is an account of the work undertaken during the year by the Sanitary Departmen...
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28th Sept., 1897 Part III. 11th July, 1893 Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 Part III. 8th Dec., 1896 Private Street Works Act, 1892 The Whole Act 8th Aug., 1893 Small Dwellings' Acquisition Act, 1899 The Whole Act 12th Dec., 1899 Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1907 Part II., III., IV. 14th July, 1908 (exce...
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New Streets and Buildings Prevention of Nuisances Cleansing of Earth Closers, &c Removal of Filth through Streets Offensive Trades (Fish-Fryers) Slaughter Houses Public Mortuary Common Lodging Houses Houses Let in Lodgings Domestic Servants1 Registries Tents, Vans and Sheds Fire-escape in Factories and Workshops Dairie...
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Act, 1907 Housing of Working Classes Act, 1885 Factory & Workshops Act, 1901 Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk Shops Order, 1885 City of Leeds (Measles and German Measles) Regulations, 1920 Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act,1899 Date coming into Operation. 15th April, 1914 17th Dec., 1894 21st Feb., 1906 22nd Mar., 1912...
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47 Table showing the number and nature of the inspections made by the Sanitary Inspectors during 1922, the number of notices served in respect of defects found in the course of inspection, and the number of notices complied with:- Nature of Inspections. Number of Premises Visited. Number of Visits of Inspection and Rei...
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β€” β€” β€” β€” Bakehouses 13 28 4 4 β€” β€” Chocolate Factory 1 2 1 1 β€” β€” Factories 3 8 2 1 β€” β€” Workshops 86 86 β€” β€” β€” β€” Workplaces 14 14 β€” β€” β€” β€” Home-workers 29 34 β€” β€” β€” β€” Schools 33 33 β€” β€” β€” β€” Dwelling - houses (including houses let in lodgings):β€” (1) House - to - House Inspection 185 1504 134 65 33 25 (2) Inspected on complaint...
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Drains inspected on complaint 59 β€ž Water tests applied 46 β€ž Smoke tests applied 19 β€ž Cleansed or repaired 60 β€ž relaid 16 β€ž reconstructed 2 Inspection Chambers repaired 4 β€ž β€ž new provided 19 Interceptorsβ€”caps fixed 2 Soil Pipes renewed 1 β€ž β€ž new provided 5 Ventilating Shafts repaired 4 Fresh air inlets repaired or new p...
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Cisterns repaired or renewed 31 Taps off main provided 7 Dustbins. Provided 102 Ashpits abolished 3 Yards. Paving repaired 65 Newly paved 42 Dampness. Roofs repaired 93 Gutters and rain water pipes repaired 51 Damp proof courses provided 31 External wall repointed 107 Floor spaces ventilated 12 Dangerous structures rep...
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Manure receptacles provided or repaired 1 Floors and yards properly paved and drained 2 50 Sanitary Administration. In Connection with Infectious Disease. Rooms disinfected 348 β€ž stripped and cleaned 99 Lots of bedding disinfected 258 β€ž ,, destroyed 3 The following Schools were also disinfected during the year:β€” Public...
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FOOD SUPPLY AND PLACES WHERE FOOD IS STORED OR PREPARED. Milk Supply. No milk is produced in the District, the source of the whole of the milk supplied to inhabitants is from outside. It is of the utmost importance that milk, especially as it enters so largely into the dietary of young children, should be produced as p...
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With regard to contamination, much greater care is required in the storage and handling of milk. With the additional powers conferred under the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, which came into operation (with the exception of Section 3) on 1st September, 1922, and under the Milk (Special Designations) Order, 192...
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There are also three firms registered as retailers of milk in the District, but whose premises, from which their milk is retailed, are situated outside the District. There is no cow-shed in the District. All the milk-shops and milk-stores have been kept under close supervision by the Sanitary Inspector: in instances wh...
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The source of the great bulk of the meat sold in the District is from outside. Meat from outside the District comes in mainly from the Smithfield and Islington Markets, and such meat is inspected at the place of slaughter. In spite of inspection, diseased meat may get through, and meat may also deteriorate before it re...
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The Ministry of Health issued in March, 1922, a Memorandum on a System of Meat Inspection recommended by the Ministry, together with a Circular thereon, with the object of securing uniformity in meat inspection throughout the country. The methods recommended by the Ministry were in the main already in operation in this...
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53 Such premises have included fishmongers, poulterers, greengrocers, restaurants and eating-houses, and cooked-provision shops (for list of unsound articles of food discovered, see below). Bakehouses. There are 13 bakehouses in the District; four of these are underground bakehouses. These premises have been inspected,...
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β€ž Codling 6 stone. β€ž Kippered Herrings 3 boxes. Sale of Food and Drugs Act. This Act is administered by the Surrey County Council; the County Medical Officer has supplied me with the following table, setting out the work undertaken in the District by the County Inspectors. Return of Samples Analysed during the Year end...
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The supply is constant. Almost entirely throughout the District the supply is through a storage cistern. Where this system is in use it is desirable, from a health point of view, to have a direct supply from a tap on the service pipe, available for water used for drinking purposes. In only a relatively small number of ...
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The water carriage system of sewage disposal is in use throughout the whole District, with the exception of 3 earth closets and 16 cesspools in positions where connection with a sewer is difficult or impossible ; the condition of these has been found to be satisfactory. One cesspool was abolished during the year. The p...
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The public conveniences in the District (both those maintained by the Council, and the public house urinals which are entered from the street and available to the public) have been regularly inspected during the year by the Sanitary Inspectors, and defective conditions found have been remedied. The urinal at the Bridge...
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I do not consider that the requirements of the District as to public conveniences are met by the above-mentioned facilities ; the public conveniences are too few in number, the water-closet accommodation especially is insufficient, and the entire absence of women's lavatories for the use of the public (except those sit...
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Almost entirely throughout the District movable ash-bins of galvanised iron are in use. A small number of fixed receptacles, about 10 in number, still exist in West Road, Mortlake. In compliance with notices served by the Sanitary Inspector, 102 new movable ash-bins have been provided and 3 ash-pits abolished during th...
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Difficulty arises in connection with passages at the rear of premises, such premises being very liable to get into an insanitary condition, and the securing of the cleansing of them not an easy matter. Such passages are much more easily kept in a sanitary condition if they are suitably paved. During the past year some ...
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57 Sanitary Administration. RATS AND MICE DESTRUCTION ACT, 1919. A whole-time Rat Catcher has continued to be employed by the Council during the year to assist in the work of rat destruction, under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspector. The Sanitary Inspectors make inspections in the District for the purpose of dis...
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The following is an account of the work carried out during the year in connection with :β€” (1) The disinfection and disinfestation of (a) Premises; (b) Bedding and other articles. (2) The cleansing of persons infested with vermin. The Disinfecting Station attached to the Isolation Hospital, and the Cleansing Station sit...