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33 The following are particulars of cases notified under Forms "C " and "D" during the year :— FORM C. FORM IX Pulmonary. X on-Pulmonary. Pulmonary. Non-Pulmonary. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female, Male. Female. 31 27 6 2 17 21 1 — 39 deaths occurred from tuberculosis all forms, 35 of these being pulmonary case...
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not notified at time of death 7 No. notified less than 3 months before death 14 No. notified 3 to 6 months before death 4 No. notified (6 to 9 months before death 2 No. notified 9 to 12 months before death 1 No. notified 12 to 18 months before death 1 No. notified 18 to 24 months before death 1 No. notified more than 2...
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1922. 1923. 1924. No. Rate. No. Rate. No. Rate. No. Rate. No. Rate. No. Rate. T.B. (all forms) 49 1.3 49 1.3 48 1.3 43 1.1 45 1.2 39 1.2 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 35 0.99 38 1.08 41 1.1 33 0.89 38 1.02 35 0.92 35 The incidence and death rate from tuberculosis form an index to a very great extent of the sanitary conditions...
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Gascoigne. Central. Ri pple. I.ongbridge. West bury. Notifications 18 18 13 16 7 25 Ratio to 1,000 Population 2.1 1.9 2.2 4.0 1.2 5.2 Deaths 8 12 8 2 3 6 Ratio to 1,000 Population 0.9 1.3 1 1 3 I 0.5 0.5 1.2 While a specific bacterium universally distributed in all civilised communities exists as the direct cause of tu...
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Quoting from the last Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Newcastle-on-Tyne, it is found that, over a period of 9 years, the average tuberculosis death rate in two of the st wards of the City was 2.55 and 2.53 compared with 0.81 and 0.70 for two better class neighbourhoods. Apart from certain dangerous t...
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Tuberculosis in children is in the majority of cases directly due to the ingestion of milk from tuberculous cows, though at the moment no legislation exists requiring milk purveyors to provide milk, free from tubercle bacilli. 37 A table of comparative tuberculosis notification and mortality rates for Barking and surro...
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2 9.5 9.6 0.7 4.5 3.3 4.1 1.9 2.1 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.1 1.2 30.8 142.2 32.2 58.9 55.5 Ilford 0.9 10.2 10.0 10.1 10.5 2.3 1.5 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.0 0.7 0.7 0.0 0.7 46.0 143.1 [00.9 50.4 51.1 Last Ham 42.5 42.8 43.0 43.8 43.9 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.9 2.0 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.
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2 1.1 38.8 50.9 J 3.3 03.3 54.0 West Ham 61.l 03.6 03.9 04.7 66.8 3.1 3.1 2.5 2.0 3.0 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1 45.5 141.2 49.2 44.2 38.7 Poplar 74.9 74.8 76.7 77.1 77.9 5.1 4.0 3.0 2.9 2.3 1.4 1.6 1.3 1.3 1.2 23.5 37.8 40.5 41.2 46.4 Stepney 120.7 147.0 131 2 132.5 133.
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3 3.9 2.1 2.8 2.5 2.3 1.7 1.1 1.3 1.4 1.2 43.2 47.9 18.5 45.4 52.3 38 AFTER-CARE; Tuberculosis in the great majority of cases is a curable disease provided the patient is seen at a sufficiently early stage of the malady, undergoes sanatorium treatment and subsequently passes his life under reasonably hygienic conditioi...
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Equally important in the matter of after-care is that of dealing with the large number of advanced cases who are, in tin majority of instances, in a highly-infectious condition, and not infrequently living under overcrowded home conditions. For these at the moment practically no remedy exists except, perhaps, that of t...
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At the request of the medical practitioners of the district, compulsory disinfection of all homes after death from tuberculosis was adopted by the Council during the year, under Section Prevention of Infectious Diseases Act, 1890. 39 DISINFECTION. The methods in use for disinfection within the district were explained i...
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The main argument against the need for room disinfection at all exists in the fact that apart from certain exceptions hereafter mentioned, infection consists in a personal transference from the infected to thers and not through fomites or Infected articles, rooms, etc., due to the further fact that the various causativ...
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With the exception of recently soiled articles, which may harbour infection for short periods, it may be said that scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, cerebro-spinal fever, diphtheria, etc., are only infectious in the individual sufferer, and that any need for chemical disinfection of the home may be safely abandon...
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40 In the case of small pox, tuberculosis, typhoid, dysentery, typhus, relapsing fever and some others, steam disinfection of bedding, clothing, etc., should be rigorously practised, while the applications of disinfectant solutions to ail room surfaces, including vermin destruction in appropriate cases would be similar...
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of Preliminary Notices served 1709 Total No. of Preliminary Notices uncomplied with and Statutory Notices issued 367 Percentage of Statutory Notices to Preliminary Notices 21.4 Number of Statutory Notices complied with in scheduled period 136 Ditto in one month 122 Ditto in two months 58 Ditto in three months and over ...
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41 On an average of various districts, while little variation appears to exist between the actual number of primary and subsequent inspections, re-inspections in Barking during the year were necessitated at the rate of 2.9 to every primary inspection. Whilst six weeks appears to be an average period for the time of com...
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outstanding (a) Public Health Act, 1875, tion 91 324 324 — — (b) Public Health Act, 1875, tion 36 43 43 — — (c) Public Health Act, 1875, tion 46 — — — — (d) Public Health Act, 1875, tion 49 7 2 — 5 (e) Public Health Act, 1875, tion 41 — — — Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 9 2 — — Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909 — — ...
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42 RETURN AS TO STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. Drains examined and tested 180 Drains re-laid and amended 12 Drains—ventilation improved 3 New w.c. apparatus provided 40 W.C. apparatus repaired 85 W.C. flushing- power improved 80. New soil pipes fixed Soil pipe ventilators enlarged 2 New main taps provided 51 Sanitary dustbins...
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SMOKE OBSERVATIONS. Compared with the previous year when eight observations were made of nuisance caused through the emission of black smoke within the meaning of the Act, 136 observations were carried cut during 1024. No actual pressure was brought to bear upon responsible parties, with a result that little or no note...
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of notices served for the abatement of smoke nuisance:— (a) Informal •> (b) Statutory — No. of prosecutions — The public health policy of the department towards recalcitrant property owners was dwelt upon at some length in my previous Report, and need not be referred to again this year. To put matter upon a sound and s...
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the difficulties commented upon in my Report for 1923 incidental to the satisfactory inspection of slaughtering in privately-owned avattoirs continued during 1924, although the issue of draft Public Health (Meat) Regulations during the year made for improvements which might be regarded as a step at least towards theore...
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Provision has been made in these Regulations—which would come into force on 44 April 1st, 1925—lor notices of times of slaughtering to be sent to Medical Officers of Health, for protection of meat, including offal, sausages, etc., from contamination exposed on stalls or in shops, stores, etc., for the general cleanline...
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Regulations, it may be added, applicable to meat should equally apply to other foodstuffs such as fish, game, poultry, bakery goods, sweets, ice-cream and confectionery of all kinds, which are just in many cases as urgently needed as a public health security. Slaughter-houses received 368 visits during the year, and 2 ...
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See Annual Report for 1923. 45 FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. 1. Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces. Premises. Number Inspections. Written Notices. Prosecutions. Factories Including Factory Laundries) 57 4 — Workshops 149 5 Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces 41 1 Other than Outworkers' Premises.) ...
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Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— Want of cleanliness 3 3 — — Want of ventilation 2 2 — Overcrowding — — — — Want of drainage of floors 1 1 — — Other nuisances 6 0 — — Sanitary accommodation:— Insufficient 4 4 — — Unsuitable or Defective 7 7 — — Not separate for sexes — — — — Offences under the Factory and Works...
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Of the 64 factories on the register the industries engaged in are as follows:— Wharfingers 2 Wood Flooring Makers 2 Maltsters 1 Rubber Manufacturers 1 Match Manufacturers 1 Pipe Makers 2 Engineers 9 Chemical Manufacturers 3 Timber Merchants 4 Letter File Makers 1 Dust Shoots 2 Tar Distillers 2 Dye Manufacturers I Boot ...
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except indirectly where a sanirtary inspector or other official authorised by the Council can visit factories for the purpose of examining employers' lists of outworkers. The question of sanitary conveniences are generally referred to the Medical Officer of Health by factory inspectors. Means of escape from fire in fac...
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In fact, as already mentioned, Section 11, regarding means of escape from fire, places a definite duty upon the local authority as regards factories, but gives no right of entry, while again, offensive trades when carried on in factories must be periodically visited under their respective bye-laws. 49 WORKSHOPS. The 30...
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Inspector of Factories. 157 visits were paid to workshops during the year, or on an average 5.2 per workshop. It cannot be stated that full information has yet definitely been obtained respecting the workshops of the district, so that no detailed statement regarding them from a public health point of view can yet be ma...
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The following are the occupations of outworkers in the district during 1924 Fancy Leather Goods 1 Wearing Apparel 6 Covering of Tennis Balls 1 Boot and Shoe Repairing 2 Brush Maker 1 Tie Makers 4 Umbrella Maker 1 Paper Bag Maker 1 During the year 23 lists of outworkers were received from authorities outside the distric...
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Private enterprise does not appear to be sufficient to meet housing requirements, because in practically every instance such houses are built for sale, leaving the poorest of the district— who are generally unable to afford the rent of houses built on subsidy—to continue the use of premises in many cases quite unfit fo...
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COMMON LODGING HOUSES. Two registered common lodging-houses of the old, or common cubicle type, one in North Street, with accommodation for 27 lodgers, and one in Heath Street, providing accommodation for 36 lodgers, continued in use and received 102 inspections during the year, a total of 4 infringements of the bye-la...
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Bve-laws regulating houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family belonging to the working classes and framed under Section 29 of the Housing, Town Planning, Etc., Act, 1919, came into force during the year, but lack of time prevented attention being given to the question of registering houses s...
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During the year it was found that a gut scraper and a fish skin scraper had been for some period carrying on the additional offensive trades of fat melter and fat extractor respectively without being registered therefor by the sanitary authority. In the latter case the premises were the reverse of satisfactory; while a...
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53 During the year noxious odours prevalent in the district presented some difficulty as to seat of origin, but eventually the nuisance was located in premises where linseed oil was being boiled to a high temperature as a preliminary in the preparation of a gelatinous product required for the manufacture of printer's i...
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(1) There are 33 dairies and milkshops on the Register, 371 inspections of these premises being carried out during the year. In 10 cases the premises are used as dairies only, while in the remaining instances they are of the type of small general shop, an undesirable combination from a health point of view, and for the...
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54 (3) Bakehouses.—The question of bakehouses has been reviewed under the Section devoted to factories and workshops. Here it may be mentioned that there are 16 bakehouses on the Register, 7 of these conforming to factory and the remainder to workshop bakehouses. There are no underground bakehouses in the district. (4)...
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Fines. 47 51 41 139 1 10/- 55 SECTION 4 MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. Midwifery and Midwives.—The arrangement foreshadowed in my Annual Report for 1923. providing for closer co-operation between the Maternity and Child Welfare staff of the Council and the District Midwives of the Plaistow Maternity Charity took effect f...
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During the year 9 midwives notified their intention of practising in Barking to the Local Supervisory Authority, which is the Essex County Council, the Medical Officer of Health for Barking filling, as formerly, the place of Assistant Supervisor in accordance with the County scheme. 31 quarterly visits were paid to mid...
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56 Although it may be said that the old type of uncertified handy women has probably now officially disappeared from the neighbourhood, it must be admitted that unqualified women to some extent still minister to the needs of the puerperal period, a circumstance which falls considerably short of the ideal of district mi...
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Still Births Medical Practitioners 203 4 Certified Midwives 596 9 Parents and Others 30 - The actual number of births within the district during the year was 861, the net total of 816 being reached by adjustment of inward and outward transfers, etc. Of the total births occurring during the year, 596, or 69.2 per cent.,...
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One of the wards at the Isolation Hospital continued to be used for maternity cases, 113 cases being admitted and 124 babies born, as compared with 120 in 1923, or 14.2 per cent. of the total births during the year, took place in the maternity ward. The low percentage of beds occupied is some matter for regret, conside...
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The following return required by the Ministry of Health for the year ended 31st December, 1924, in respect of the Maternity Ward should serve to remove many of the existing fears and prejudices in the minds of m..ny with respect to the use made of part of an infectious hospital for maternity work.
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The almost entire freedom from complications and necessities for medical aid are worthy of notice:— (1) Total number of cases admitted 143 (2) Average duration of stay 1.34 days (3) Number of cases delivered by— (a) Midwives 124 (b) Doctors — 58 (4) Number of cases in which medical assistance was sought by the midwife ...
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Feebleness 1 (5) Number of cases notified as puerperal sepsis with result of treatment in each case. —Nil. (6) Number of cases in which temperature rose above 100.4 for 24 hours with rise of pulse rate.—Nil. (7) Number of cases notified as opthalmia neonatorum with result of treatment in each case.—Nil. (8) Number of c...
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39 (11) Number of foetal deaths (still-born or within 10 days of birth) and their causes, and the results of the postmortem examinations, if obtainable : (a) Still-born 3 (b) Prematurity2 Total 5 (12) Number of cases remaining in ward on 31st December, 1924:— (a) Women 8 (b) Babies 5 Total 13 As previously, advantage w...
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Special investigations were carried out by the health visitors in all notified cases, but in no instances was it possible to arrive at any specific cause for the condition. MATERNAL DEATHS. Three deaths occurred attributable to the puerperal state, giving a maternal mortality rate calculated on the number of deaths per...
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Of the total number of births registered 20, or 2.3 per cent., were illegitimate, compared with 25, or 2.9 per cent., for the previous year. STILL-BIRTHS. Of the net total of notifications received under the Notification of Births Act, still-births formed 1.5 per cent., compared with 2.6 per cent. for 1923. The actual ...
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Special visits of investigation were made in all still-births, and the following details elicited as far as accurately could be established:— (1) Duration of pregnancy:— (a) Less than seven months 4 (b) More than seven months 9 (2) Presentation:— (a) Vertex 8 (b) Breach 4 (c) Footling 1 61 (3) Supposed cause of still-b...
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Of the total number of mothers who had still-births, 2, or 15.3 per cent had attended the ante-natal clinic once or oftener. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Seven cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified, as compared with ten in 1923. Of these five occurred in the practices of midwives, the remaining cases being attended by...
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Compared with 192 and 208 respectively during 1923, the total attendances made by new cases were 325, while re-attendances numbered 434 during 1924. The average number of casei attending per session and re-attendances per patient amounted respectively to 14.8 and 2.3. It is mainly, if not entirely, through the ante-nat...
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It is therefore expedient that every expectant mother, not under the care of a medical practitioner, should realise the importance of placing herself under adequate ante-natal supervision throughout pregnancy, a fact all important in first pregnancies, and little less so in any subsequent pregnancy which may occur. As ...
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It is impossible from the post-natal aspect to over-estimate the significance of child birth as a factor in the causation of gynaecological morbidity, in fact such conditions as arise unconnected with the puerperal state are comparatively few, emphasising accordingly the need for more attention being paid to the early ...
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The average number of attendances at the ante-natal clinic during the months of October, November and December reached 19.2, and the necessity became obvious for the opening of one additional clinic per week, the question being under the consideration of the responsible committee at the end of the year. WORK OF THE HEA...
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Regular subsequent visitation is carried out by Health visitors of all cases which cither do not attend a centre regularly or not at all, and herein lies the more important part of the health visitor's work, home visiting therefore occupying the,major part of her time and attention. Owing to the numbers attending the v...
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of attendances per session 63.0 70.9 90.9 No. of new cases 151 257 227 No. of old cases 2,90(5 3,291 4,231 Average No. of attendances per mother 20.2 13.8 19.0 The need of six sessions per week instead of three for infant welfare work will become apparent from the above figures, a suggestion, however, only practicable ...
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Barking with its 846 births last year cannot be regarded as other than exceptional in so far as in most entirely industrial and therefore requiring additional assistance to cope with its present needs, which are obviously more than two health visitors can satisfactorily cope with. 65 Particulars of the work of the heal...
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of special visits in connection with Ophthalmia Neonatorum 7 Ditto Deaths of children up to 3 years of age 89 Ditto Still-births 9 Ditto Puerperal Sepsis 2 Ditto Foster Children 42 Other visits (not specified) 194 Average No. of home visits per working day equal to 27.4 It may be pointed out that the number of children...
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Ihe following scheme for submission to the Maternity and C hiid Wellare Committee was prepared by the Medical Officer Health towards the close of the year, and the following recommendations made :— (I) That arrangements be made for taking advantage of the massage and remedial, etc., clinic, established by the Education...
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in the case of the administration of gas; (3) That one session per week be devoted to dental treatment and one to propaganda, the School dentist visiting one Infant Welfare Centre per week, giving talks to mothers, examining mothers and children offering themselves therefor, and offering treatment to those requiring it...
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Glaxo (Full Cream) 5,865 60 635 6,560 Glaxo (Half Cream) 96 28 124 Ambrosia 2,900 50 252 3,202 Cow and Gate 6,424 35 536 6,995 Trufood 114 2 — 116 PROVISION OF FREE MILK TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. No. of pints supplied at reduced price. No. of pints supplied free. Total. Total cost of milk supplied. Council's liability i...
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This provision is not valued, probably for sentimental reasons as much as it ought to be, only five mothers availing themselves of its advantages during the year, 68 dinners having been supplied. FOSTER CHILDREN. Cases of foster children received in the district are notified to the Medical Officer of Health by the Guar...
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While the infantile death rate among legitimate children was 83.53 per thousand births, that among illegitimate children was equal to 150.0. Ignorance, the age of the mother and other causes, probably account for such a disproportionate mortality amongst illegitimate compared with legitimate children, and the need has ...
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The number of deaths from diarrhoaji diseases under two years of age per thousand births was 17.7 forming 41.6 per cent, of the zymotic death rate, which was 0.9. The actual number of deaths from all causes under one year was 72, 23 being female and 49 male children. During the same period the infantile mortality rate ...
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The importance of breast feeding and the regular use of dried milk, instruction in mothercraft, demonstrations in infant clothing, etc., at the Centres, have been emphasised in the part which they have played in the lessened infantile mortality rate which has occurred since the beginning of the present century by nearl...
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Births. Deaths. Births. Deaths. Births. Deaths. Births. Deaths. 184 19 170 15 80 6 406 32' DEATH RATE PER THOUSAND BIRTHS. 103.2 88.2 69.7 78.8 70 Particulars of feeding of certain children who came un< supervision during 1924 are as follows :— Breast Fed. Mixed. Artificis No. of children under supervision— feeding a...
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The death rate among male children was 113.02 per thousand births, and among females 04.76, the excessive male death rate ! during the year btring noteworthy. NEONATAL MORTALITY. The neonatal mortality rate is calculated on the number of deaths of children under four weeks per thousand births, and during 1924 was equal...
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Under twentyeight days . Prematurity 7 2 2 1 . 12 Prematurity and Debility 6 1 — — 7 Asphyxia by Accident — — 1 — 1 Congenital Malformation — — 2 — 2 Convulsions 1 — — — 1 Abscesses and Broncho-Pneumonia — — — 1 1 Colitis — 1 — 1 Atelectasis 4 4 Cerebral Hemorrhage 1 — — — 1 Measles — — — 1 1 Totals 19 4 5 3 31 THE An...
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An important staff change more fully considered on Page 82 consisted in the replacement on retirement of Mr. G. M. Hick, L.D.S., part time dental surgeon since 22nd August, 1921, by Mr. W. W. F. Dawe, L.D.S., a school dentist to the Southampton Education Committee, as a full time denta! surgeon for the District. (2) CO...
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73 In 1924 there were in Barking (a) seven Council schools, in eluding seventeen departments, and (b) two voluntary schools including five departments. The total provision in the district in 1924 for elementary school children thus amounted to nine schools with 22 departments, affording accommodation, exclusive of Fair...
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of children examined 550 828 553 115 179 2,225 No. referred for treatment 135 190 121 88 78 612 No. referred for observation 55 67 15 8 17 162 Percentage of defective children 34.54 31.03 24.59 83.47 53.07 34.78 Routine medical inspections were conducted throughout the year on the various elementary school premises, wh...
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The number of children examined during the year falling within the above age groups totalled 1,931 (979 boys and 952 girls). In addition, 115 children (60 boys and 55 girls) of varying ages were presented for special medical examination, while 899 re-examinatior.s (487 boys and 412 girls) were made at school to ascerta...
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Gascoigne 21 238 246 262 North St 18 190 155 196 Castle 3 35 27 35 Crecksmouth 3 12 13 13 We9tbury 20 211 199 242 Ripple 16 188 164 208 VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS. Church of England 14 113 131 91 Roman Catholic 7 52 72 47 75 (b) The following are, as in previous years, the sources from which early ascertainments of crippling de...
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(5) FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS. The arrangement was commenced in January, 192-1, of keeping medical inspection cards at the various schools in preference to the central office, and the practice continued throughout the year. The medical records of individual children are now available at school, and the teacher ha...
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Table 6, appendix (a), gives a return of defects found in the course of routine medical inspections during the year, some of the noteworthy defects so discovered being considered more particularly below. 76 Of all children inspected during the course of the year the percentage of those vaccinated was as low as 39.39 pe...
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Defects in "entrants" referred for treatment or observation were found present in the following proportions in respect of particular schools attended :— 77 Chief Defects. Percentage to total defects. Percentage to total defects at each Individual School. Gascoigne. North Street. Westbury. Ripple. National. Catholic. Ca...
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5.67 2.63 2.43 5.71 13.04 5.71 11.70 Nil Nil Defective Vision 1.54 Nil 4.87 Nil Nil Nil 5.88 Nil Nil Malnutrition 3.09 2.03 2.43 5.71 Nil 2.85 5.88 Nil Nil Otitis Media 4.63 10.52 2.43 Nil Nil 5.71 11.76 Nil Nil Heart Disease 5.15 2.03 2.43 8.57 4.34 2.85 11.76 25.00 Nil Suspected T.B.
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2.57 Nil 4.87 2.85 Nil 5.71 Nil 25.00 Nil Other Defects (not specified) 27.83 36.34 26.82 22.85 34.78 25.71 23.52 Nil Nil 78 The following table indicates the number of children re inspected during the year, and the number and percentage found to have obtained treatment. Routine. Specials. Total. No. of children re-ins...
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Percentage 441 405 40 13 899 221 196 .417 46.38 The secret of successful treatment in the great majority of instances is efficient following up on the part of the school nurse, and, although parental obstinacy may account for a certain percentage of cases not dealt with, the fact that the task in its present proportion...
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CLEANLINESS.—Surveys under this heading are carried out at (a) routine medical inspections, and (b) special inspections conducted by the school nurses. (a) At the former 376 children out of a total of 2,225, or 16.89 per cent., were found to have nits in their hair, while 7, or 0.31 per cent. were found infested with h...
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(b) During the year the school nurses made 13,632 individual examinations as compared with 16,296 in 1923. Of this number, 1,911 children were found to have nits only in the hair, 290 harboured nits and vermin in the hair, whilst 36 showed the presence of verminous bodies and clothing. Every school in the area covered ...
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Infants 95 8 2 Boys 27 3 4 Girls 199 9 2 Caatle Infants 41 12 4 Boys Girls Creeksmouth Infants 33 — — Boys Girls Westbury Infants 84 23 — Boys 16 2 — Girls 153 13 — Ripple Infants 72 6 2 Boys 30 3 1 Girls 136 9 — C. of E Infants 65 23 3 Boys 18 16 2 Girls 159 14 — R.C. Infants 39 5 3 Boys 180 23 9 Girls Faircross — 56 ...
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(c) The progressive application of the cleansing scheme to every school. (d) Steady development of educational methods and the pressure of public opinion. (e) Legal proceedings as a last resort in dealing with recalcitrant parents or guardians. Two obstacles, however, still obstruct the path to more rapid coping with t...
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The necessity of a Cleansing and Disinfecting Station for the efficient treatment of scabies apart from verminous conditions cannot be overestimated. CLOTHING.—Children with dirty clothing numbered 47. or 2.11 per cent., compared with 155, or 5.06 per cent. in 1923. Children with defective footgear numbered 19, or 0.85...
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1924. 5 years 41.4 41.5 38.8 39.3 8 years 46.9 48.1 50.4 52.4 13 years 59.8 58.7 74.7 82.4 TONSILS AND ADENOIDS.—228 children, or 10.24 per cent. of those examined, were found suffering from enlarged tonsils or adenoids, or both, with such symptoms that it was found necessary to refer them for observation or treatment....
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A defect exists in the scheme whereby greater facilities might exist for the over-night detention of cases following operation, but in the present dearth of sufficient hospital accommodation throughout the Eastern part of the extra Metropolitan area, it must be felt that the final consideration of this question must st...
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were fouud to be deaf, while 40, or 2.0(i per cent. suffered from ear disease, the latter generally having discharging ears, and a certain amount of deafness in consequence. Otorrhoae, although essentially a chronic condition, usually exhibits signs of improvement on treatment, but little can usuaily be done to restore...
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DENIAL DEFECTS.—As all children are annually inspected by the dental surgeon, a regular inspection of the teeth, except in special cases is not generally undertaken as part of routine medical inspection in every instance, although special cases brought to the notice of the Medical Officer are where necessary seen and r...
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The extent to which dental disease is prevalent is shown by the fact that of a total of 4,483 children, 3,052, or 68.07 per cent. were found to require treatment, of which numbers, however, only 1,181, or 38.69 per cent. actually accepted treatment. Had the full number of children referred for treatment actually been t...
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Of all cases of heart affections referred for treatment or observation from routine inspection, seven, or 39.44 per cent., on reiinspection, were found to have received treatment. AFFECTIONS OF THE LUNGS.— Forty-five children, or 2.02 per cent., suffered from pulmonary affections exclusive of tuberculosis, most of the ...
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During the vear 79 cases were referred to the Tuberculosis Officer, of whom 8 were subsequently notified as tuberculous. The total number of attendances made at the Dispensary by children of school age amounted to 415, while during the year 28 school children were recommended through the Essex County Council for hospit...
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of those examined at routine inspection, were found to be suffering from vision so defective as to require treatment. Further particulars of these cases will be found in tabular form on page 104. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the prescribing of spectacles in most of these cases—many of whom are myopes—altho...
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CRIPPLING DEFECTS AND ORTHOPÆDICS.—The existing need referred to in my last Annual Report for dealing with this question has now been remedied by the establishment of a Remedial Centre in conjunction with the cripple class at the Special School, such provision being required both for cripples attending this School and ...
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B. Whitchurch-Howell, F.R.C.S., Weymouth Street, W.1., who attends the centre one session per month in order to examine cases and where suitable refer them for operative treatment to Brookfield Orthopaedic Hos pital, where he is a member of the honorary staff and has consequently a certain proportion of beds at his dis...
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As Sir George Newman points out in his report on the School Medicol Services for 1923, the correction of Orthopa;dic defects should begin not in many cases when the child enters school, but during the earliest years, or even months of life, a suggestion which it is hoped the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee will a...
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The following extract from a preliminary report submitted by the Orthopaedic Surgeon is appended :— "The following groups come within the scope of the work of the Orthopædic Surgeon, and can be conveniently dealt with at in Orthopædic Clinic established in connection with the School Medical Service of a district:— (1) ...
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86 It will thus now be seen that orthopaedic surgery is both preventive and curative; hence it will be readily understood that any scheme for the prevention and curing of cripples must b. very comprehensive, and should consist of:— (a) An orthopædic team. (b) An orthopaedic clinic. (c) An orthopaedic hospital. "Where i...
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"The orthopædic team consists of (1) orthopaedic surgeon, (2) masseuse, (3) school medical officer, (4) local medical practitioners. (5) infant welfare centre workers, (6) school nurses, (7) voluntary association, i.e., Invalid Children's Aid Association, etc. All personnel should be under the direct training and super...
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Educable defectives are feeble minded children, whose mental deficiency does not amount to imbecility, yet is so pronounced that they are incapable of receiving proper benefit in an ordinary elementary school, although not incapable by reason of such defect of being instructed in a special class or school. Ineducable d...
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In assessing the degree of defect present and the suitability or otherwise of any case for special school, besides the consideration of various psychological factors, the pedagogic or educational attainments of the child are considered in respect of his age in years, the resultant of which forms the mental age, intelli...