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358edabe-4264-4859-a557-58e835050e63 | I should look with the greatest disapproval on any invidious distinctions drawn between the children who are attending Faircross School for ordinary elementary education and those who attend there for special reasons, because we have been at great pains to make sure no one attends the Open-air School who is likely to spread infection, of whatsoever nature such infection 29 may be, and anything which might lead the parents of the children at the Open-air School to suppose that they incur any risk from infection by reason of the fact their children attend this school will be detrimental to the interests of the Open-air School and of education generally. The fact that there is a waiting list for admission to the Open-air School makes it, to my mind, unfortunate that a classroom should have been taken for purposes other than official open-air education. In making this statement I am not unmindful of the fact that there are other reasons which have urged you to take the action you have taken. |
6dc48fee-1e05-437e-a22c-71ad48605ae2 | This brings me naturally to the questions: " How many places do you really want in any educational system for open-air school education ? " " How many debilitated children are you likely to meet who cannot obtain proper benefit from education in an ordinary elementary school ? " " Have we nearly enough places in Barking ? " The answer to these questions is that we do not exactly know how many places are required; but I am persuaded that the number of places is far beyond those we have already built, although at the same time I must gratefully and readily acknowledge you have more such places in Barking compared with the size of your town than any other authority; that is, so far as I know. If we are going to have great gaunt school premises, halfway between a factory and a prison on the one hand and a monastery on the other, so far as architecture is concerned, then, of course, we shall want a large number of places for open-air education. |
29f78012-fec3-4757-bb6b-5722be7e535e | • (/) Residential Open-air Schools.—We have no residential openair school as such, and I do think the time has come when something should be done, at least during the summer months, to make Faircross a residential school. 30 So far as possible in the selection of cases for admission to Faircross, I try to make sure that there is some real physical disability by reason of which the child is debarred from gaining adequate benefits from tuition in an ordinary elementary school, and that the case is not one merely of maternal indifference militating against the efficiency of the child's school life ; but, notwithstanding my efforts in this direction, I do feel that home circumstances are a very pertinent factor in the conditions of many of the children attending your Open-air School, and that the benefits of the few hours a week they spend at that school are brought to naught by the many hours they spend in the uncongenial atmosphere of their own homes. |
54b00519-af63-41d0-a904-8f06a32c1161 | For my part I am willing to look upon it as a definite possibility that an equal amount of money spent on a residential institution of fewer places would give more definite and lasting results than that amount of money spent on an ordinary non-residential open-air school. What I suggest is that, at least during the summer months, with at least a small number of children, an attempt be made on a voluntary basis to keep the children at the school throughout the whole of the week with the object of expediting the recovery of such debilitated children, and the further object of investigating the possibilities of such a course of action on a permanent basis. (10) PHYSICAL TRAINING. The Local Education Authority have no officer with special duties for organising physical training in your schools. A large amount of work, however, is carried out, and .the provision of a playing field at the Park Modern School is, I hope, to be regarded as a precedent which will be a standard in all our future school planning. |
ed81da25-c1de-4a7f-a6da-23979a266ede | The spectacular efficiency of physical exercises, whilst, indeed, an index of the efficiency of these exercises, must not keep us from recognising that the very best exercises of all are those in which the movements of the body are purposeful and free from restraint. 31 In this connection, organised games fulfil a very useful function, and no scheme of physical exercises is complete in which such organised games do not find a very prominent place. There is one matter of very considerable interest of which I am constantly speaking, and which cannot be emphasised too often. There are a large number of children who do not learn to breathe properly. There is, as you know, a great deal of difference between the breathing of an infant and the breathing of an adult, and these children carry into their adult lives the infantile type of breathing. It is to be remarked that these children who breathe defectively are usually of lesser intelligence than those who breathe properly. |
e74d9a1b-722b-402d-9270-0b91e1ea38e0 | It would be unwise at the present juncture to state that by teaching these children to breathe properly they will of necessity become more intelligent ; but this may be so, and in so far as correct breathing will increase their physical vigour, it certainly will in some measure be so. The fault lies in the fact that our physical exercises have developed as a modification of the bad old army methods of training, in which an expanded chest was looked upon as the quintessence of everything to be desired, even when it was attained not by actually increasing the volume of the chest, but by pressing abnormally on the contents of the abdomen and thrusting the liver abnormally high into the chest itself. There is, too, an idea that putting the shoulders back increases the capacity of the chest. This is not so. |
25ff5478-4a6c-47a9-81b5-a3e1b4fd046c | When the chest is expanded the shoulders will naturally be carried somewhat backwards, but merely by muscular activity to null the shoulders backwards and so to expose the greater part of the upper chest has nothing whatsoever to do with chest expansion, and, however spectacular, does not add one iota to the efficiency of the ventilation of the chest. The erect posture, too, is a matter which has received very considerable attention of late, and I am convinced that too much attention cannot be given to it at the present time. 32 If a' child stands correctly it will do so naturally and easily, without effort and without fatigue. If a child stands incorrectly it will become fatigued readily, and, not only so, the first attempts to stand properly will be found difficult and wearisome, because the muscles will not have only to help to maintain the erect posture, but they will also be doing considerable work overcoming the deformities which have been encouraged by incorrect posture. |
f5f520fd-2533-440b-a03e-7851ffc258e5 | The straight back is the ideal, and the hollow backs seen in many of our children are much to be discouraged. In boys they detract from mechanical efficiency, and in girls they do even more, because they militate against " normal deliver}' " when in process ,of time the selfsame girls become the mothers of the nation. (n) PROVISION OF MEALS. With reference to the provision of meals I have dealt with this elsewhere, and it only remains for me to add that the dietaries are submitted to me for approval. (12) SCHOOL BATHS. School baths are provided at the Special School and the Park Modern School, and I hope they will soon be found in every school, and that certainly provision will be made for baths at every new school opened by the Local Education Authority. It cannot be too often enforced that the skin is an organ of the body as much as the heart and the lungs. It requires to be kept clean, and requires to be kept working if it is to be healthy. |
9508b405-9884-4b1a-a3b8-9ad4247acbfb | The stimulus of bathing makes the skin react naturally, and the more people accustom their skin to this and similar reactions the less are they likely to find themselves subject to colds. There are public swimming baths at East Street. These belong to the Council. Children attending elementary schools are instructed in swimming at these baths, and here is a healthy exercise which should be encouraged. 33 (13). (14). (15) and (16) CO-OPERATION OF PARENTS, TEACHERS, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICERS AND VOLUNTARY BODIES. The attendance of parents at routine medical inspection is considerable, no less than 64.8 per cent, having attended during the year 1928. The teachers, too, take a remarkable interest in this work, and their help is invaluable. |
ffd47f26-ce2b-4356-950e-f0acb6b88e9e | I would like here, once again, to call your attention to the fact it is highly desirable to include in your statistics the children who come within the code groups, whether they are suffering from any disability or not, because only by so doing can you test the efficiency of your educational system as a public health measure for the promotion and maintenance of health. The school attendance work in Barking is carried out by investigation officers who undertake, not only the ordinary duties of school attendance officers, but also duties in connection with maternity and child welfare, etc. The closest co-operation is maintained, and through these officers, as well as directly, any necessary help is sought and obtained from the various voluntary organisations which interest themselves in the happiness of children. I am credibly informed that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children have dealt with 17 cases. |
4a44cc0b-19a4-4b16-af64-c0c5c0c4fbf4 | The following table shows the way in which these cases have been dealt with:— Total number of cases investigated 17 (a) Prosecutions Nil (b) Warnings 15 (c) Otherwise dealt with 2 It is always a pleasure when I am able to support this very deserving charitable organisation, and the fact there has been no prosecution this year shows how essentially preventive is the work this association is carrying on. 34 The figures given relate to all cases in the town, and not expressly to cases in which school children only are involved. (17) BUND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND EPILEPTIC CHILDREN. It may be taken that substantially every blind, deaf, defective or epileptic child is known to the authority. |
b2644fd6-a48d-4915-8ed4-826a9719d8f9 | To make absolutely certain it would be necessary to hold a special census, but even if this were done the result would be uncertain unless exceptional measures were taken, so that although, of course, we cannot declare that our returns under these headings are absolutely accurate, we know them to be sufficiently accurate to make any alternative method of ascertainment unnecessary. You, as the Local Education Authority, have so many agencies at work interested in child welfare that I can scarcely believe that any children who should be known to you are not known. Even the Municipal Hospital plays a part in this ascertainment, because every child in there is very closely watched, and any necessary information is filed with the school dossiers. Six deaf and dumb children have attended at Frederick Road Centre, Custom House, during the year, and one child has been maintained in a residential institution. The number of known epileptics of all grades is 13, and you have been much exercised in the problem presented by epilepsy where it is associated with other defects. |
7b867ba5-9218-47a8-9556-8092423761d3 | Mentally Defective Class, Open-air School.—This class serves a very useful purpose. It takes out from the ordinary elementary schools a number of scholars who would unquestionably clog the machinery of ordinary elementary education. Further, it gives these children a training from which they can benefit educationally. To a certain extent, and in certain cases to a considerable extent, the actual intelligence of the children is increased. This, however, as I shall show, is a two-edged sword. There are no clear lines of demarkation between the highest intelligences and abject idiots and imbeciles, and if you have only a mentally deficient class, naturally there would gravitate into that class a certain number of children who are on the border 35 line between " mental deliciency" and low-grade " dull and backwardness." |
a72de5ad-ed3a-4a37-91d1-26a91e41a8c2 | It is invidious that these dull and backward children, however low grade, should be classified as mentally defective, and no scheme is complete which deals only with mentally defectr children and leaves the larger class of dull and backward children uncatered for. It may be possible for these dull and backward children to get along somehow in the ordinary elementary schools. My submission is their education is even more important than that of ordinary children and that of specially intelligent children, because, apart from any question of ordinary education, of which I cannot speak expressly, there is the question of the further development of these children after they leave school. In the ordinary way the education of a child goes on long after the age of fourteen. An impetus has been given, the momentum of which is felt for several years, and, either consciously, by attending evening schools or by other means, or unconsciously, the child still continues to learn and the intelligence still continues to expand ; but in the case of these dull and backward children there is, as a rule, no momentum. |
7751f30e-aed4-4c1e-b79f-5e2943b20d04 | They are only educable under the influence of a constant stimulus. Directly they leave school they not only entirely discontinue their education, but actually go backwards. These are the children who bring great discredit on our educational system, and are the evidence on which the critics of education found their biting sarcasm. If this were all, it would be bad enough, but worse remains yet to be told. These are the children who become the " work-shys " of later life. The women often become harlots and the men petty thieves, with not enough intelligence to excel even in that art, with the result that they spend long terms of servitude at the expense of the State. |
953d2b86-ce2e-449a-91b5-447c6c45fa23 | It is these dull and backward children who decrease the productivity of industry; they increase expenditure, not only on prison services, but also on relief work and many other forms of public enterprise, including expenditure on hospitals and other 36 medical organisations, because the health of these people is visually below the average to begin with, and invariably gets worse owing to their hand-to-mouth level of existence. It is from this particular standpoint I would commend to you the need there is for looking after the dull and backward children. In referring to the double-edged sword, of which I spoke previously with reference to the education of the mentally defective, I would say we have seriously to consider as to if and whether a large amount of the money spent on these children does not in reality only turn them from people who would merely be a charge on the State for themselves into the rather higher grade of which I have already written, who, in addition to being a drain on the resources of the nation, are a positive danger to society. (18) NURSERY SCHOOLS. |
6b10a502-c565-48ec-a076-d4f3f726a2ed | There are no nursery schools in the district. (19) SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Last year I pointed out it seemed invidious that many of the children, passing from your elementary schools to the secondary school should lose the benefit of your very comprehensive scheme of medical inspection and treatment, and I still feel something should be done to co-ordinate or to re-distribute your duties and those of the county with reference to education, so that the amenities for treatment open to the children of your ordinary schools should be available for the children at the secondary school also. (20) CONTINUATION SCHOOLS. There are no continuation schools in the district. (21) EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS. Milk and newspaper deliveries, general errands, etc., are the usual forms of employment of children and young persons. |
ee8d4587-65a7-40be-be6c-f20066a08b44 | In accordance with Bye-laws of the Education Authority, 14 applicants of school age submitted themselves for examination prior to 37 employment, of which number it was necessary to refuse two applicants on medical grounds. Street trading is permissible to boys of 15 years, although licence is refused girls under 16 years, no prior medical examinations being required of applicants. Certain conditions, however, such as mental defect, prevent street trading being engaged in. (22) SPECIAL ENQUIRIES. There have been no special enquiries within the meaning of the Board of Education. There is plenty of work waiting to be done, and I hope the time will soon come when, not only in Barking hut throughout the country, it will be recognised that staffs should lie sufficiently large to allow a reasonable amount of research to be undertaken. (23) MISCELLANEOUS. Three young persons who desired to become bursars and student teachers were medically examined during the year by a private medical practitioner, none being rejected on medical grounds. |
8a3caee3-8c99-4fd6-9faf-eedf5b9a5042 | 38 REPORT OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC , CLINIC. Orthopaedic Clinic, Faircross School, Barking, Essex. To the School Medical Officer. The Orthopaedic Clinic this year has shown a slight increase in numbers. Twenty-nine school children and 22 children under school age were examined by me for the first time, and 119 school children and 67 children under school age were re-examined during the year, the findings of my primary examinations being as follows:— SCHOOL CHILDREN. Deformities—Bones and Joints— (a) Congenital (b) Acquired— (i) Fractures 1 (ii) Arthritis 1 (iii) Genu Valgum 4 (iv) T.B. |
b976d862-32ed-4845-93fc-a4215004a76b | Hip 1 — 7 Muscular Deformities— (a) Congenital abnormality— (i) Absence of Pectoralis Major 1 (b) Acquired— (i) Pes Piano Valgus 9 (ii) Kyphosis 2 (iii) Kypho-lordosis 2 (iv) Scoliosis 1 — 15 Paralysis— (a) Congenital (b) Acquired— (i) Anterior Polio Myelitis 2 — 2 39 Various— (i) Hydrocephalus 2 (ii) Contracture following burn 1 (iii) Baker's Cyst 1 — 4 CHILDREN UNDER SCHOOL AGE. |
32024182-3eb6-4bfd-a047-3d340ce3c8ee | Deformities—Bones and Joints— (a) Congenital— (i) Abnormal skull 1 (b) Acquired— (i) Rickets 7 (ii) Genu Valgum 3 — 11 Muscular Deformities— (a) Congenital— (i) Torticollis 3 (ii) Talipes 5 (iii) Hemihypertrophy 1 (iv) Hypotonia 1 (b) Acquired— (i) Pes Piano Valgus 2 — 12 Paralysis— (a) Congenital (b) Acquired— (i) Double Erb's 1 — 1 During the year, four school children and three children under school age were admitted to hospital. |
a6566e27-6cfc-41e3-9296-6c474be5a8b9 | The following operations have been carried out"— (a) School children— _(i) Manipulation for congenital dislocation of hip joint 3 (ii) Tenotomy Tendo Achilles1 (iii) Steindler's operation 1 (iv) Manipulation—foot 1 (v) Tenotomy of Adductors 1 — 7 40 (6) Children under school age— (i) Osteoclasis Tibiae (bow legs) 1 (ii) Osteotomy Femur, right and left (Genu Valgum) 1 (iii) Manipulation and P.P.'s—Talipes, right and left 2 — 4 Total ii The special features of this year's work are the successful results of the operations, particularly the cases of Talipes, and the increasing number of children under school age sent up for advice and treatment. For example, a case of Club Foot, seen and treated from the moment of the child's birth, can be cured within a few months,, often without operation. |
d9da12f1-daf5-43e7-9a79-8062e187e745 | The motto of the Orthopaedic Clinic should always be " Prevention is better than cure," and this idea is fostered by the medical examination at an early age of every child, whereby defects are discovered and treated, and potential weaknesses, strengthened and often cured. B. WHITCHURCH HOWELL, F.R.C.S. 41 report of dental surgeon. To the School Medical Officer. I have pleasure in submitting to you the report and the figures of work done in the Dental Clinic during the year ending 31st December, 1928. Throughout the year, the routine of work at the clinic has gone on in circumstances of fullest cordiality and co-operation with the parents. Every endeavour has been made to afford every encouragement by the treatment, by the courtesy, and by the advice given towards the good name and reputation of the clinic. |
9e160f50-66b9-493b-b07f-381df1ed640d | It is the wish, I feel sure, of the governing authorities that in this clinic, as in all others which they govern, the standard and reputation should be of the highest, and this, therefore, has been the keenly sought objective throughout the past year. There has been very little leakage of time for treatment. Unfortunately, as in all clinics where fixed appointments are made, there have been times when appointments have not been kept. This difficulty, though, in a great measure has been overcome by slightly increasing the daily number of appointments and then, in the event of a rush occurring, distributing the work evenly throughout the session. It has also been found that the erratic attendances of mothers from the Child Welfare Centres has continued, the cause for this irregularity more than probably being due to domestic duties. In this latter case, rather than letting an opportunity occur for time wastage, a few urgent child cases have recently been included in their gas session. |
0493fdd3-85cf-43f6-b822-4273525fbca4 | It must be stated, however, that these have not been allowed to encroach in any way upon the due treatment for each individual mother, but that the children cases have been worked into the session as opportunity occurred. Conservation Work.—It will be seen from figures included that a considerable amount of saving of deciduous teeth has been resorted to. The temporary teeth certainly do a short time of service in the mouth, but indisputably the service which they 42 do is at a very important age of the child's development. Justification in filling them is also afforded by the fact that the process is a comparatively speedy one, and, too, it is an excellent foundation upon which to overcome the old-fashioned prejudice against fillings, as very little pain is experienced by the child, and the lasting results very satisfactory. The number of permanent teeth saved by conservation treatment, as indicated in the returns, is also very satisfactory. These fillings call for a considerable period of time if they are to be satisfactorily and lastingly done. |
c26aa603-33ef-42dc-9374-c3df216cc815 | Upon a fair average, twenty minutes can be allocated to each of them. It can readily be seen, therefore, how working time is very quickly absorbed. It is to be remembered also that permanent fillings in a child should be made with the consciousness that they will be called upon to serve many more years than in an adult, and in the all-important developing years. Fraenum Cases.—A fair number of cases of slight severance of the fraenum have been undertaken. These cases do, of course, bear upon the orthodontic branch of dentistry. Usually, this minor operation has been done in cases requiring this treatment where the oral hygiene has been obviously well attended to. It has been found necessary to make application for an additional gas session per fortnight in order to cope with the gas cases. If this request be conceded, the number of gas sessions now will be exactly equal to the number utilised by my predecessor whereas if not conceded I shall be having exactly half of the number which he had and he found necessary. |
e3e4ec43-a697-46a9-a47f-ef25aa1810ca | With the work of the clinic growing, it seems inevitable that in the latter circumstances a congestion must occur. It must be pointed out also that these gas sessions accelerate the work, it being possible to do two to three times the amount of work in one of these gas sessions as compared with the amount of extraction in a normal session by local injections. H. S. SMYTH, L.D.S., R.C.S.(Eng.). 43 BARKING TOWN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE. TABLE I.—RETURN OF MEDICAL INSPECTIONS. A.—Routine Medical Inspections. Number of Code Group Inspections: Entrants 946 Intermediates 687 Leavers 581 Total 2214 Number of other Routine Inspections 126 B.—Other Inspections. Number of Special Inspections 141 Number of Re-inspections 1347 Total 1488 44 TABLE II—A. |
25e12b1c-9b0d-4765-b57f-cd45a0bd1fd7 | RETURN OF DEFECTS FOUND BY MEDICAL INSPECTION IN THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1928. Defect or Disease. Routine Inspections Special Inspections. No. of Defects. No. of Defects. Requiring Treatment. Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment. Requiring Treatment. Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Malnutrition 12 12 1 1 Uncleanliness — — — — Skin Ringworm. |
9f9d2893-2b02-40af-9b12-ec7b611a49eb | —Scalp — — — - Body - — — - Scabies 2 — 1 - Impetigo 3 — 1 - Other Diseases (NonTuberculous) 1 2 1 - Eye Blepheritis 3 2 — - Conjunctivitis — — 1 - Keratitis — — — - Corneal Opacities — — - - Defective Vision (excluding Squint) 90 14 22 - Squint 17 3 2 - Other Conditions 2 — — - Ear Defective Hearing 1 — 3 - Otitis Media 9 — 4 - Other Ear Disease — — — - Nose and Throat Enlarged Tonsils only 42 58 7 1 Adenoids only 8 14 1 2 Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids 70 51 6 1 Other Conditions 21 11 3 2 Enlarged Cervical Glands (NonT.B.) |
43b8d056-56d3-47e2-89ed-bb15c5b09457 | 1 48 1 3 Defective Speech - 1 - 1 Teeth—Dental Diseases (See Table IV., Group IV.) Heart and lation. Heart Disease: Organic 1 25 - 2 Functional - 38 1 9 Anœmia 9 9 1 3 Lungs Bronchitis 19 20 2 — Other Non-Tuberculous Diseases — 3 — — TABLE II.—Continued. Defect or Disease. Routine Inspections. Special Inspections. No. of Defects. No. of Defects. Requiring Treatment Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment Requiring Treatment. Requiring to be kept under observation, but not requiring Treatment. |
6951fc5b-6494-477e-a4df-811f010ae11d | (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Tuberculosis Pulmonary: Definite - — - - Suspected - 2 - - Non-Pulmonary: Glands 1 10 - 1 Spine - — - - Hip - - - - Other Bones and Joints - - - - Skin - - - - Other Forms 1 2 - 2 Nervous System Epilepsy - 2 - — Chorea 4 8 1 — Other Conditions — 5 - — Deformities Rickets 12 9 2 1 Spinal 1 1 1 1 Other Forms 3 4 1 — Other Defects and Diseases 11 48 9 30 46 B.—Number of Individual Children FOUND AT Routine MEDICAL INSPECTION TO REQUIRE TREATMENT (EXCLUDING UNCLEANLINESS AND DENTAL DISEASES). Group. Number of Children. Percentage of Children found to require treatment. Inspected. |
423d8312-e43e-4806-896a-cdb6f71f6120 | Found to require treatment CODE GROUPS: Entrants 946 143 15.1 Intermediates 687 115 16.7 Leavers 581 71 12.2 Total (Code Groups) 2,214 329 14.8 Other Routine Inspections 126 22 19.0 47 TABLE III—RETURN OF ALL EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN THE AREA. Boys. Girls. Total. Blind (including partially blind.) (I.) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the totally blind. Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Blind - - - Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At other Institutions - - - At no School or Institution - - - (II.) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the partially blind. |
4abaf1e1-76de-470c-a5a8-8fb706c7d3f4 | Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Blind - 1 1 Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At other Institutions - - - At no School or Institution... - - - Deaf (including deaf and dumb and partially deaf.) (I.) Suitable for training in a School or Class for the totally deaf or deaf and dumb. Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Deaf 3 6 9 Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At other Institutions — — — At no School or Institution... 1 - 1 (II.) Suitable for training in a School or Class for partially deaf. Attending Certified Schools or Classes for the Deaf - - - Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At other Institutions - - - At no School or Institution — - — Mentally Defective Feeble Minded cases not notifiable to the Local Control Authority. |
64e9de08-90e8-4496-adfd-b9598248cade | Attending Certified Schools for Mentally Defective Children 21 22 43 Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At other Institutions — — — At no School or Institution... — — — Notified to the Local Control Authority during the year. Feebleminded - - - Imbeciles 1 1 2 Idiots - - - Epilepsy. Suffering from severe Epilepsy. Attending Certified Special Schools for Epileptics 1 2 3 In Institutions other than Certified Special Schools - 1 1 Attending Public Elementary Schools - - - At no School or Institution - - - Suffering from Epilepsy which is not severe. Attending Public Elementary Schools 6 4 9 At no School or Institution - - - 48 TABLE III.—continued. Boys. Girls. Total. Infectious pulmonary and glandular Tuberculosis. |
77c420c2-5bac-46aa-a99f-acc8ab5f610c | At Sanatoria or Sanatorium Schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board 2 1 3 At other Institutions - — — At no School or Institution - - - Non-infectious, but active pulmonary and glandular tuberculosis. At Sanatoria or Sanatorium Schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board - - - At Certified Residential Open Air Schools - - - At Certified Day Open Air Schools - - - At Public Elementary Schools - — — At other Institutions - — — At no School or Institution - - - Physically Defective. Delicate children (e.g., preor latent tuberculosis, malnutrition debility, anaemia, etc.) At Certified Residential Open Air Schools - - - At Certified Day Open Air Schools 63 65 128 At Public Elementary Schools 14 16 30 At other Institutions - - - At no School or Institution - - - Active non-pulmonary tuberculosis. |
a69388d7-03a6-4cdc-9c15-351ecb82cc42 | At Sanatoria or Hospital Schools approved by the Ministry of Health or the Board 1 1 2 At Public Elementary Schools — — - At other Institutions — — - At no School or Institution — — — Crippled Children (other than those with active tuberculous disease), e.g., children suffering from paralysis, etc. and including those with severe heart disease. At Certified Hospital Schools - - - At Certified Residential Cripple Schools - - - At Certified Day Cripple Schools 21 15 36 At Public Elementary Schools — — — At other Institutions — 1 1 At no School or Institution - 1 1 49 TABLE IV.—TREATMENT TABLE. Group I.—Minor Ailments (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see Group V.). Disease or Defect. Number of Defects treated, or under treatment during the year. Under the Authority's Scheme. Otherwise. Total. |
0827e174-fe2e-477e-92c2-7cb50094353d | Skin:— Ringworm—Scalp 10 — 10 Body 13 — 13 Scabies 8 — 8 Impetigo 326 1 327 Other Skin Diseases 101 — 101 Minor Eye Defects (External and other, but excluding cases falling in Group II.) 66 4 70 Minor Ear Defects 109 1 110 Miscellaneous (e.g., minor injuries, bruises, sores, chilblains, etc.) 1385 1 1386 Total 2,018 7 2,025 50 Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects Treated as Minor Ailments—Group I.) Defect or Disease. (1) Under Authority's Scheme. (2) Number of defects dealt with. Submitted to refraction by private practitioner or at hospital apart from the Authority's Scheme. (3) Otherwise (4) Total. |
a605d863-7c2f-42b6-ada8-78ca367e8add | (5) Errors of Refraction (including Squint) 144 37 - 181 Other Defects or Diseases of the eyes (excluding those recorded in Group I.) - - - — Total 144 37 — 181 Total number of children for whom spectacles were scribed:— (a) Under the Authority's Scheme 141 (b) Otherwise 37 Total number of children who obtained or received spectacles:— (a) Under the Authority's Scheme 141 (b) Otherwise 37 Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat. NUMBER OF DEFECTS. Received Operative Treatment. Received other forms of treatment. Total number treated. Under the Authority's Scheme, in Clinic or Hospital. By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme. Total. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 122 33 155 14 169 51 GROUP IV.—Dental Defects. |
1f8ec4e8-051c-43e7-9243-1b677dba0957 | (i) Number of Children who were:— (a) Inspected by the Dentist. Routine Age Groups- Age 3 — 4 3 5 323 6 571 7 527 8 509 9 450 10 398 11 401 12 332 13 287 14 148 15 6 Special 1 Total 3956 (b) Found to require treatment 2945 (c) Actually treated. 2787 (d) Re-treated (included in (c)) 935 (2) Half-days devoted to Inspection 26 Treatment 352 Total 378 (3) Attendances made by children for Treatment 2787 (4) Fillings—Permanent Teeth 853 Temporary Teeth 980 Total 1733 (5) Extractions—Permanent Teeth 379 . |
d653a527-2b1b-4700-b036-e264abbbbeae | * Temporary Teeth 3671 Total 4050 (6) Administrations of General Anaesthetics for Extractions 665 (7) Other Operations—Permanent Teeth Temporary Teeth 169 52 GROUP V.—Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions. ♦ (i) Average number of visits per school made during the year by the School Nurse 3 (ii) Total number of examinations of children in the schools by School Nurses 17153 (iii) Number of individual children found unclean 1545 (iv) Number of children cleansed under arrangements made by the Local Education Authority 25 (v) Number of cases in which legal proceedings were taken:— (a) Under the Education Act, 1921 - (b) Under School Attendance Bye-laws - |
27d74ff4-cc96-49d9-8f9c-6a4783d39f8f | BARK 23 Barking Town Urban District Council. OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH For the Year 1929. C. LEONARD WILLIAMS, B.Sc. Hons. (Lond.) M.R.C.S. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Camb.) 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE SECTION 1—GENERAL. Ambulance Facilities 17-18 Births 26 Causes of Death (Table) 24 Causes of Death at Various Ages under I year 25 Causes of Sickness 11-12 Clinic and Treatment Centres 15-16 Comparative Statistical Table 9 Deaths 22-23 Inquests 23 Laboratory Work 19 Local Bye-Laws, Regulations and Adoptive Acts 19-21 Marriages 26 Staff 3 Statistical Summary 8 Summary of Nursing Arrangements and Hospital Provision 13-17 . |
771f3b87-61fa-413f-aa98-784bf585feb7 | Table of Vital Statistics from 1923 to 1929 10 SECTION 2—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT. Common Lodging Houses 36 Factories, Workshops, Workplaces, etc. 42-45 Housing Statistics 29-31 Houses Let in Lodgings 36 Improvement of Existing Housing Conditions 45-48 Inspection and Supervision of Food :— (a) Milk 37-38 (b) Meat 38-40 (c) Unsound Food 40 Notices Served 34 Offensive Trades 36 Overcrowding 46 Piggeries 36 Kainfall 27 Kivers and Streams 27 Sale of Food and Drugs Act 40 Sanitary Inspection of the Area 31-32 Scavenging 28 4 SECTION 2—Continued. PAGE Schools 41 Sewerage 28 Stables 36 Summary of Sanitary Work carried out 32-34 Smoke Abatement 34-36 Tents, Vans, Sheds, etc. |
56eb3a25-d426-400d-bb09-bf9f58e609b2 | 36 Water Supply 27 SECTION 3—INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 55 Asbestosis .. .. .. .. .. 62-64 Cases Classified According to Age, Groups and Wards 51-52 Chicken-pox 55 Diphtheria 55 Encephalitis Lethargica 55 Enteric Fever 55 Erysipelas 55 Malaria. 55 Measles and Whooping Cough 56 • Monthly Summary of Receipt of Notifications 53 Non-notifiable Diseases 55-56 Puerperal Fever 55 Scarlet Fever 53 Small-pox and Vaccination 54 Table of Admissions and Discharges from Hospital 56 Tuberculosis 56-62 Tuberculosis After-care 62 Table of Cases of Infectious Diseases notified and removed to Hospital 49 SECTION 4—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. |
29270bae-0bfb-45db-a295-425c72862d80 | Ante-Natal Clinics 66 Artificial Sunlight Clinic 74 Dental Clinic 72, 73. 76, 77, 78 Foster Children 72 Illegitamacy 73 Infantile Mortality 72 Maternal Mortality 69 Maternity Ward 67-68 Neo-Natal Mortality 69 Notification of Birth Acts, 1907-1915 65 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 70 Orthopaedic Clinic 73-74 Post-Natal Cases 66 Provision of Meals and Fresh and Dried Milk 75 Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 68 Still Births 69 The Pre-School Child 72 Work of Health Visitors and Infant Welfare Centres 71 ECONOMICS 79-80 5 STAFF, 1929. Medical Officer of Health, School Medical Officer, Medical Superintendent, Isolation Hospital, and District Tuberculosis Officer. ♦C. LEONARD WILLIAMS, B.Sc. Hons. |
f0e7a96e-9f9e-4b54-902c-246fe868d056 | (Lond.) M.R.C.S. (Eng.) D P.H. (Cambs.) Asst. Medical Officer of Health and Asst. School Medical Officer : ♦MURIEL J. LOUGH, M.B., B.S., B.Sc., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Died Mav, 1929.) *J. GWEN BEVAN, B.Sc., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Orthopaedic Surgeon (Part Time) : *B. WHITCHURCH HOWELL, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S. Dental Surgeon : *H. S. SMYTH, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.). (Resigned August, 1929.) *W. H. FOY, L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.). (Commenced November, 1929.) |
42b104cc-fecc-4d6f-b65b-b5e159d8648d | Sanitary Inspectors : *N. BASTABLE (Chief Sanitary Inspector) (b, c, d and f). *H. CARR (Sanitary Inspector) (b, c and e). *C. S. COOK (Sanitary Inspector) (b). Health Visitors : *MRS. G. STOKES (g). *MRS. M. W. WALTON (a, h and 1). *MISS G. ELLIOTT (a, h and 1). Matron, Isolation Hospital : MISS M. J. HEDGCOCK (h, i and j). Masseuse, Orthopaedic Clinic (Part Time) : ♦MISS A. E. FINDLAY, C.S.M.M.G. (k). Clerical Staff. E. W. HILL (Chief Clerk). D. G. TONKIN. MISS V. SHEAD. |
66ce6b02-ad5e-4a7b-af6b-5d4a7bed7ae4 | MISS H. NUNN MISS H. KING. Disinfector and Mortuary Attendant: H. LONG. (a) Sanitary Inspector's certificate of Sanitary Inspectors' Examination Board. (b) Sanitary Inspector's certificate of Royal Sanitary Institute. (c) Meat, etc., Inspector's certificate of Royal Sanitary Institute. (d) Smoke Inspector's Certificate of Royal Sanitary Institute. (e) Building Inspector's certificate of Worshipful Company of Carpenters. (f) Sanitary Science Certificate of Royal Sanitary Institute. (g) Health Visitor's certificate of Royal Sanitary Institute. (h) Certificate of Central Midwives' Board. (i) General Hospital Training. (j) General Fever Training. (k) Certificate M.E. and S.R.E. (1) Health Visitor's Diploma of Board of Education. ♦Proportion of salary contributed under Public Health Acts or by Exchequer grants. |
76a8adef-6187-48db-8c7a-053b3b1391e3 | 7 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health for the Urban District of Barking Town, in the County of Essex, for the Year ended 31st December, 1929. Public Health Offices, Barking, Essex. To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council of Barking Town. Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Jackson and Gentlemen, The year 1929 has been a very energetic one so far as the whole of the Council's Services are concerned, and the Public Health Department has shared these activities. The development of the Becontree Estate has made it necessary to lay the foundations of an extended medical service. The present Report, being chiefly a record of technical work completed, will not, of course, show the amount of spade work which has been done during the year. This Report is unavoidably late. The circumstances which have helped to make it so are not likely to recur. I am, Mr. Chairman, Mrs. |
ccd4b5ca-9a8d-4633-8de6-e32624236271 | Jackson and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, C. LEONARD WILLIAMS, Medical Officer of Health. 8 SUMMARY OF PARTICULARS REQUIRED BY CIRCULAR 834 OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH, DATED 15th DECEMBER, 1927. 1. General Statistics. Area (acres) 4,106 Ward areas Tidal Water H.W.M. Thames 240 Roding 58 Loxford Water 2 3,806 300 4,106 Population (Census, 1921) 35,523 Population (June, 1929) (Registrar General's estimate) 42,160 Number of inhabited houses (1921 Census) 6,762 Number of Families or separate occupiers (1921 Census) 7,594 Population Density, i.e.. No. |
6c2e3f29-d81e-493b-8ce3-48a8c7872816 | of persons per acre 10.3 Rateable Value—General £354,229 0 0 Sum represented by a penny rate /1,500 19 0 Education rates :— Elementary Secondary .. Included in General Rate Figure 3 0J 6 Assessable Value—Revaluation of District under the Rating and Valuation Acts, 1925 and 1928 General Rate 12.11 2. Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year. Births :— Males. Females. Total. Birth Rate. Legitimate 391 382 773 18.3 Illegitimate 7 7 14 0.33 Total 398 389 787 18.7 Deaths:— Male. 221 Female. 214 Total 435 Death Rate. 10.3 Standard Death Rate (Factor 1.049) 10.8 Number of deaths of women during, or in consequence of, childbirth :— From Sepsis. 0 From other causes. |
3b5515e0-cb26-4e57-b36a-119df537b55c | 2 Total. 2 Number of deaths of infants under one year of age :— Total Infantile Death Death Males. Females. Total. Rate. Rate. Legitimate 21 16 37 47.9 53.4 Illegitimate 2 3 5 357.1 Number of deaths from Measles (all ages) — ., Whooping Cough (all ages) 3 Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 9 H KMt, AMJ AJJALHtlt !_>*• MUKIAUIY DURIN*.. THE YEAR. Birth Rate per 1,000 Total Population. Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Population. Rate per 1,000 Births. Percentage of Total Deaths. All Causes. Enteric Fever. Small Pox Measles. Scarlet Fever. Whooping Cough. Diphtheria. Influenza. |
5f518620-104d-4f78-be83-b860f1d88aed | Violence. Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under Two years). Total Deaths under One year. Causes of Deaths Certified by Registered Medical Practitioners Inquest Cases. Certified by Coroner after P.M. No Inquest. Uncertified Cause9 of Death. England and Wales 16.3 13.4 0.01 0.00 0.08 0.02 0.15 0.08 0.74 0.55 8.1 74 91.5 6.1 1.5 0.9 107 Count;- Boroughs and Great Towns including London 10.6 13.7 0.01 0.00 0.12 0.02 0.19 0.09 0.76 0.50 10.9 79 91.8 5.8 1.9 0. |
6d0f52b2-6c95-4427-b0a2-5dda5503b96b | 5 157 Smaller Towns (1921 Adjusted Populations 20,00050,000) 16.0 0.71 0.01 0.00 0.06 0.02 0.15 0.07 0.71 0.45 5.9 69 92.6 5.4 1.0 1.0 London 15.7 13.8 0.01 0.00 0.04 0.02 0.26 0.08 0.69 0.56 10.7 70 89.5 6.8 3.7 ; o.o BARKING 18.7 10.3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.07 0.07 0.09 0.47 0.45 11.4 42 93.1 3.7 3.2 0. |
e1332081-b7ce-4909-9703-627ba68e0eae | 0 VITAL STATISTICS OF WHOLE DISTRICT FROM 1923 to 1929. Year. Population estimated to Middle of each Year. Births. Total Deaths Registered in the District. Transferable Deaths Nett Deaths belonging to the District. Nett. Number. Rate. Of Nonresidents registered in the District. Of residents registered out of the District. Under One year of age. At all Ages. Number. Rate. Number. Rate per 1,000 Nett Births. Number Rate. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1923 37,210 S62 23.1 234 6.2 5 86 *43 *49.8 *318 *8.5 1924 37,890 846 22.3 273 7.2 3 109 72 85.1 379 10. |
c6a8fce2-a070-4d0b-b001-1b17cd4a882f | 0 1925 38,450 825 21.4 287 7.4 8 107 66 80.0 386 10.0 1926 38,920 818 21.0 259 6.6 11 118 49 59.9 366 9.4 1927 39,900 710 17.7 251 6.2 7 162 47 66.1 406 10.1 1928 40,870 805 19.7 276 6.7 6 144 .51 63.3 414 10.1 1929 42,160 787 18 7 291 6 9 8 152 42 52.4 435 10.3 * ??? 11 5. |
a30783f1-c477-4191-bdeb-9f64bce344f8 | CAUSES OF SICKNESS, Last year I called your attention to the fact that amongst things prejudicial to health must be counted the condition of the District Railway to Barking. My information is that certain steps have been taken to mitigate this nuisance, but I myself have been unable to see any change for the better. It is not only bad from a public health standpoint but bad economically for people to have to spend no inconsiderable part of their working day under the unhygienic circumstances which obtain on this railway. 11 Last year also, I called to your notice that my attention had been drawn to a particular disease which, whilst resembling consumption in many ways, was not due, I felt sure, to tuberculosis. At that time, too, I expressed the opinion that there was possibly some association between this disease and industrial life. During the year under review I have had the greatest help from my colleague, Dr. Burton Wood, and also from Dr. |
734afedc-9cc2-4c12-a775-677c4f64ca5b | Gloyne, who is the pathologist at the Victoria Park Chest Hospital, and we have established that many people in Barking are suffering from disease of the lungs due to the inhalation of asbestos dust. Somewhat late, the Home Office on 17th March, 1930, issued a memorandum on this subject, after you, on the findings of our personal experience, had made representations to them. The incidence of diphtheria and scarlet fever has been heavy, and diphtheria has been severe in type. It is interesting to contrast the relative severity of diphtheria in this coastwise town of Barking with the relative mildness of the disease on the uplands of Yorkshire. 12 It cannot be too often emphasised that diphtheria is easy to treat if detected early, and so very difficult to treat if only detected late. It therefore behoves everybody having the charge of children to treat sore throats seriously. |
788a8573-64c3-48ab-b3fe-4f8300e553c8 | • Overcrowding is still a serious feature, and although you have done magnificently in erecting houses in the past, there is yet heroic work to be done. Enthusiasts, as you know, spoil all schemes by declaring that their pet nostrum will cure the world of all its ills. I cannot advise you that housing the people can solve all the problems of public health, but I am perfectly persuaded that these problems will never be solved until the people are re-housed under proper circumstances. 13 6. SUMMARY (FOR REFERENCE) OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, HOSPITALS, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT. (a) Nursing in the Home. (i) The Plaistow Maternity Charity provide a staff of nurses, who attend at the homes of the sick once or twice a day, carry out such skilled nursing as required, and offer instructions where advisable in hygienic home practices in relation to the sick. |
971768f6-d348-4c4b-8e1c-7178e58c8cfb | I understand that this Charity is willing to entertain the possibility of extending its activities to cover the whole of Barking, i.e., to include the Gale Street area. (ii) For infectious diseases. In the event of an epidemic, the Council can provide nurses for such cases as may require to be nursed in their own homes. The provision of adequate hospital accommodation for in- ' fectious diseases is the best way of dealing with these cases. It would not be economic to build every house in such a way that there would be readily available accommodation for isolating the inmates. Further, if such structural amenities were present, it is not to be supposed that actual nursing facilities would be generally available. |
b8c0ab3d-1191-4dd2-b221-cb91f58bc6b8 | * My own personal opinion is that all infectious cases should more and more be treated in hospital, and that, therefore, you have been very wise in deciding, in planning your new infectious fever hospital, to have available sufficient ground for 50 per cent, more than the one bed per thousand of population which is the present generally accepted standard for such hospitals. 14 (b) District Midwifery Provision. By agreement dated January 1st, 1924, with the Plaistow Maternity Charity, the Council annually subsidise the Charity on any deficit from £300 in respect of 300 District Midwifery cases attended by the Charity reckoned at the rate of £1 per case. The takings of the Charity for the year ending 31st December, 1929, amounted to £280, leaving a balance due to the charity from the Council of £20, such sum ranking for grant. 15—10 (c) CLINIC AND TREATMENT CENTRES. Name and Situation. |
2da77999-2a79-40dd-a3d1-878f7899c0dc | Nature of Accommodation. By Whom Provided. I. Maternity and Child Welfare :— (a) Centres Clinic premises. East Street. Accommodation for consultations, weighing of babies, waiting room, etc. Local Authority. Greatfields Centre, Movers Lane. „ „ „ „ Alexandra Centre St. Pauls Road „ „ „ „ (b) Ante-natal clinic Clinic premises. East Street. Accommodation for consultations. „ „ Alexandra Centre „ „ (c) School Nurseries Nil. Nil. Nil. (d) Day Nurseries Nil. Nil. Nil. II. School Medical Service :— (a) Inspection Clinic and treatment of minor ailments Clinic premises, East Street. Three rooms. Local Authority. (b) Eye Clinic „ „ One room. „ „ (c) Dental Clinic „ „ Two rooms. „ „ (d) Orthopedic Clinic Faireross School. One room. |
befec0ec-caf5-4899-a57c-a815935999e4 | „ „ III. Tuberculosis 37, Linton Road. Three rooms. Essex County Council. IV. VeDereal Diseases London Hospitals, etc. – By arrangement with Essex County Council. 17 (d) Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority:— (i) Small-pox:—By arrangement with the West Ham Authorities, small-pox cases occurring within the Council's area are treated at Orsett Hospital, but in the event of that hospital having its full complement of small-pox patients, provision would be made for these cases to be sent to the Dagenham Small-pox Hospital, which is now used by West Ham as a Sanatorium and which can be vacated at short notice. Orsett Small-pox Hospital is situated at Stifford, in the Orsett Rural District, and has accommodation for twenty-two patients. (ii) You, as a corporation, have provided two hospitals. |
a2b54206-b8ef-439e-86fc-f53ae7a885a0 | They are both situated in the Upney Lane, one for the isolation and treatment of infectious diseases and the other for maternity cases. (e) Ambulance Facilities :— (i) A motor ambulance is provided for the removal of infectious cases to the Isolation Hospital, Upney Lane. (ii) For non-infectious and accident cases, two motor ambulances are kept at the Fire Station, the ambulance and fire services being run in conjunction under the Chief Fire Officer. On September 19th, 1929, you took delivery of a Du Cros Ambulance, similar to that used by the M.A.B., except that the following structural differences had been incorporated, namely :— * * ]. That the ends of the stretchers to which the spring mattresses are attached had been curved in accordance with modern hospital practice, and 18 2. Provision was made for bucket seats to replace one stretcher, so that abdominal cases returning from hospital could sit up more comfortably than they could lie on a stretcher. |
33f66bb4-dfcf-4d6e-bf6c-5bda5a80b37f | The ambulance is run by firemen, who have attained a very high degree of efficiency in carrying out this work, but the necessity of having a nurse always in attendance is a matter for your consideration, and in the case of removal of women patients this is most desirable. Up to the present our firemen have always found that the relatives or friends of the patient have carried out this duty, or, where necessity has demanded it, the doctor in charge of the case has himself travelled in the ambulance to the hospital, but you will no doubt wish to put the whole matter on a more satisfactory basis. 19 7. LABORATORY WORK. |
a1ff97fc-d4d9-4635-8f79-60d4a177ae1e | The necessary laboratory work of the district is carried out bv arrangement with the Essex County Council at the Counties' Laboratory, situated in Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.4, particulars of the number of specimens submitted for examination being supplied by the following table :— Specimen Number examined Diphtheria 1,509 Sputa 511 Typhoid 22 Ringworm 6 Miscellaneous 6 The work carried out by the Counties' Laboratories of Queen Victoria Street is of a very high order, and it is not open to criticism, except in so far as that, of course, it is difficult to get reports through sometimes so quickly as one would wish. This criticism deals specially with diphtheria swabs. You may decide, as and when your new hospital is open for infectious diseases, to make provision to carry out a certain number of these bacteriological examinations yourself in cases of suspected diphtheria. 8. |
a8c3681b-c2dc-465d-a2d8-a949186e0d5a | List of Adoptive Acts, Bye-laws, and Local Regulations relating to Public Health in force within the district. (i) Local Acts: Barking Town Wharf Act, 1893, Barking Parish Act, 1888. (iil General Adoptive Acts: Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 1847, etc. Infectious Diseases (Notiiication) Act, 1889. 20 Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, Parts 2, 3 and 5. Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9, and Section 95 of Part 10. Local Government and other Officers' Superannuation Act, 1922. Pubiic Health Act, 1925. (iii) Regulations: Regulations as to Cemetery, 1902. Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924. |
eb737539-1eb0-4dd5-93ad-0cd465c0e8ea | (iv) Bye-laws with respect to : Nuisances, 1884. Common Lodging Houses, 1884. Offensive Trades, 1907 (revised 1924). Houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family, 1924. Public Baths, 1900. Tents, Vans, Sheds and similar structures, 1909. Paving of Open Spaces, 1901. Nuisances in connection with the removal of offensive matter, 1908. Employment of Children and Young Persons, 1921 revised (1924). 21 New Streets and Buildings, 1926. Slaughter Houses, 1890. Hospitals, 1S97. Sanitary Conveniences, 1924. Pleasure Grounds, 1902. Mortuary, 1901. |
3c0ab404-3a10-4c50-94ea-b1a93eb6955a | (v) Among the Special Acts and Orders in force within the district, and important from a Public Health Standpoint, are:— 1910.—Orders declaring the trades of fish-skin scraper, fish fryer, dealer by retail in rags, bones, skins, fat or other like articles in an offensive condition, blood drier, tanner, leather dresser, fat melter or fat extractor, glue maker, size maker, gut scraper, and oil boiler to be offensive trades, the last being so declared in 1925. 22 9. DEATHS. There were 291 deaths registered in Barking in 1929. Of these 8 were deaths of non-residents. Barking residents to the ♦ number of 152 died elsewhere during the year. * Including the latter and excluding the deaths of visitors, the net number of deaths was as follows :— Males. |
84488d9e-7568-41cb-bc0c-8c3daa292d55 | Females Total 221 214 435 The death rate for 1929 was 10.3 per 1,000, compared with 10.1 in 1928, calculated on the Registrar-General's estimated population and number of deaths, compared with 13.4 for England and Wales, 13.7 for the hundred and seven Great Towns, 12.3 for the hundred and fifty-seven Smaller Towns, and 13.8 for London. Age Mortality.—The deaths in various age groups, according to the figures obtained locally, were as follows:— Age Group. No. of Deaths. |
150a3fef-bd35-4642-90ed-fd44f863e9a9 | Under 1 year 46 1 to 2 years 8 2 to 5 years 13 5 to 15 years 12 15 to 25 years 20 25 to 45 years 53 45 to 65 years 123 Over 65 years 160 23 Causes of death in 1929.—The table on page 24 shows the principal causes of death at various ages. Those diseases, etc., causing most deaths or important from a Public Health aspect were as follows :— Disease. No. of Deaths. Percentage of total net deaths registered. |
031a828f-0e53-4f19-96ad-f1a411c83f47 | Cardio vascular system 50 11.5 Cancer 33 7.6 Tuberculosis (all forms) 38 8.7 Pulmonary affections, (exclusive of tuberculosis), viz., Bronchitis 62 14.3 Pneumonia 55 12.6 Other respiratory disease 4 0.9 Zymotic Diseases 17 3.9 Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.—These diseases caused 3.9 per cent, of the total deaths, such deaths being caused in the following proportions :— Enteric Fever — Measles — Whooping Cough — Scarlet Fever 3 Diphtheria 4 Diarrhoea 10 Smallpox — INQUESTS.—Coroner's inquests were held on 16 deaths. 24 CAUSES OF AND AGES OF DEATH DURING YEAR, 1929. (Nett Deaths.) Causes of Death. Deaths at the subjoined ages of " Residents " whether occurring in or beyond the district. Under one year |
110bc931-e79f-413e-af85-edebbf910fd7 | 1 and under 5 5 and under 15 15 and under 25 25 and under 45 45 and under 65 65 and upwards Total Encephalitis Lethargica — — — — — 1 — 1 Influenza — — 1 — — 3 2 6 Scarlet Fever — 1 2 — — — — 3 Small Pox — — — — — — — Measles — — — — — — — Whooping Cough — — — — — — — — Epidemic Influenza — — — — — — — — Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2) 8 2 — — — — — 10 Diphtheria — 2 2 — — — — 4 Enteric Fever — — — — — — — — Erysipelas — — — — — — 1 1 Puerperal Fever — — — — — — — — Other accidents and diseases of pregnancy and parturition |
068efb42-df5a-4d50-99c3-d2fb845499b9 | 1 1 Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) — 1 — 10 14 9 i 35 Other Tubercular Diseases — 1 — 2 — — — 3 Asbestos — — — — 1 1 — 2 Cancer (Malignant Disease) — — — — 4 14 15 33 Bronchitis 3 1 1 — 3 14 40 62 Pneumonia 2 13 — 4 9 11 16 55 Other Respiratory Diseases — — — — 2 2 — 4 Alcoholism (Cirrhosis of Liver) 1 — — — — — — 1 Premature Birth, Malformation and Debility 16 _ _ 16 Accidents — 3 — 2 4 2 4 15 Suicides — — — 1 1 3 — 5 Rheumatic Fever — — — — — — — — Diabetes — — — — — — — — Cerebral |
525f2aaa-ce88-4f10-a87a-74d9775bca81 | Haemorrhage 1 — — — 2 8 14 25 Heart Disease — 1 — 1 2 19 18 41 Arterio-Sclerosis — — — — — — 6 6 Ulcer of stomach or duodenum — — — — 2 4 1 7 Asthma — — — — — 4 4 Anaemia — — — — — 1 2 3 Arthritis — — — — — — 1 1 Meningitis (non-Tubercular) 4 — — — — — — 4 Appendicitis and Typhlitis — — — — — — — — Acute and Chronic Nephritis — — — — 3 3 2 S Other defined diseases 4 1 4 5 6 18 38 76 Causes ill-defined or unknown 3 — — — — — — 3 Totals 42 26 10 25 54 113 165 435 25 INFANT |
118ca5cf-dbdf-44b8-8c82-509d6966c745 | MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1929. The following table gives the actual causes of death of children dying under one year of age. Nett deaths from stated causes at various ages under one year:— Causes of Death. (All causes certified.) Under 1 week. 1—2 weeks. 2—3 weeks. 3—4 weeks. Total under 4 weeks. 4 weeks and under 3 months. 3 months and under 6 months. 6 months and under 9 months. 9 months and under 12 months. Total under one year. Small Pox — — Chicken Pox — — Measles — — — — — — — — — — Scarlet Fever — — — — — — — — — — Whooping Cough — — — — — — — — — — Diphtheria and Croup — — — — — — — — — — Erysipelas — — — — — — — — — Tubercular Meningitis |
1aec864e-303e-44ed-ab3b-557c63967278 | — — — — — — — — — — Other Tubercular diseases — — — — — — — — — — Meningitis (non tubercular) — — — — — — 2 — 1 3 Convulsions 9 — 1 — 3 — — — — 3 Laryngitis — — — — — — — — — — Bronchitis — — — — — 1 — 1 — 9 Pneumonia (all forms) — 1 — — 1 1 2 Diarrhoea — — — — — — 9 1 — 3 Gastritis — 1 1 — 9 2 — 1 — 5 Acute supra Renal — — — — — — 1 — — 1 Deficient inherent vitality 2 — 1 — 3 — — — — 3 Jaundice — 1 — _ — 1 Cerebral Haemorrhage — 1 — — 1 — — — — 1 |
94b9faa7-b8b2-4b7a-8506-a605eb71ae21 | Congenital malformation — — — — — — — — — — Premature Birth 9 1 2 — 12 — — — — 12 Atrophy, debility and Marasmus 1 1 — — 9 — — — — 2 Want of attention at birth 9 — — — 9 _ — 2 Other causes 2 — — _ 9 — — — — 2 Totals 18 5 5 — 28 4 5 4 1 42 Nett Births in the year :— Legitimate 773 Illegitimate 14 Nett Deaths in the year :— Legitimate 37 Illegitimate 5 26 10. MARRIAGES. There were 276 marriages registered in the district in 1929. This is equal to a marriage rate of 6.5 per 1,000 population. |
4ab59f42-9d84-443e-b225-f4461927e38f | In 1922, there were 208 marriages, equal, to a rate of 5.6; in 1923, 219 marriages, equal to a rate of 5.9 per 1,000 ; in 1924, 208 marriages, equal to a rate of 5.4 ; in 1925, 258 marriages equal to a rate of 6.7 ; in 1926, 249 marriages equal to a rate of 6.3; in 1927, 304 marriages equal to a rate of 7.6, and in 1928, 311 marriages equal to a rate of 7.6. 11. BIRTHS. The net number of births registered in 1929 was 787, affording an annual birth rate of 18.7 per 1,000 population, compared with 19.7 in 1928 and 17.7 in 1927. |
784dfe8e-78b1-41f7-ba26-51ec5c289c9f | Of all births, 14 were illegitimate, or a proportion to total births of 1.8 per cent. Notification of Births Act, 1907-1915.—Of the total births recorded in the district during 1929, 733 were notified to the Medical Officer of Health, 503 being notified bv midwives and 230 by parents and doctors. 20 still-births were notified, 17 being notified by midwives and 3 by doctors and others. 6 still-births, which took place in the district, were not notified. 27 SECTION 2. SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT. WATER SUPPLY. Water is supplied to the area by the South Essex Waterworks Company. During the year there has been much ado about the cost of water. Apparently the Waterworks Company have exercised certain rights to increase their charges, and the operation of the new Rating and Valuation Act has again varied the assessment of the water rate. |
b5cc8784-22ca-48b1-a9c3-bd49e4037b46 | It cannot be too strongly emphasised that a bountiful supply of pure water is one of the very foundations of a sound public health service and must be obtained at whatever cost, and by the same token a cheap supply of pure water is one of the essentials -of public health. RIVERS AND STREAMS. The Rivers and Streams of the district come w'thin the jurisdiction of the Essex Sewers Commissioners (who are the Tidal Flush •and Flood Water Drainage Authority), and the Port of London Authority, who are the recognised Navigation Authority for the Thames, as defined by the Port of London Consolidation Act, 1920, •and who have also certain powers as to the fouling of streams, etc. RAINFALL. The rainfall for the year ended December 31st was 18.17 inches. Rain fell on 221 days throughout the period in question. 28 SEWAGE. |
5a208ad4-4ae7-4286-aa37-054d16a492dd | It is gratifying to note that progress has been made and that at the time of this Report, work has been started on the comprehensive scheme to deal with the sewage of Ilford and Barking. The present scheme is in its essence one proposed by Barking now many years ago and provides for the reception of the sewage into the Northern Outfall Works. It appears that if the London County Council had accepted this principle when it was first put forward by Barking, many of the present difficulties in dealing with our sewage, particularly with the sewage from the Becontree Estate, would have been obviated. SCAVENGING. Street cleansing, together with the collection and disposal of the domestic refuse, is under the control of the Engineer and Surveyor. It is gratifying to be able to report that the method of collection, which previously has been somewhat antiquated and unsuitable,, has now been brought up to date, S.D. freighters being used. |
c57617f7-34d1-42d0-a9d9-a82ebc0207f0 | During the year 54,172 loads of refuse were collected, the average weight per load being 1 ton 4 cwt. Crude refuse is still dumped on the low-lying land at Mayesbrook. Certain improvements are being carried out in the methods of tipping, but nothing short of " controlled tipping " as carried out at Bradford can be looked upon as satisfactory. CESSPOOLS, PRIVYMIDDENS AND PAIL-CLOSETS. In the unsewered portion of the district there remain 46 premises with cesspools, 45 with pail-closets and 7 with privies. So soon as the sewerage scheme which is now in preparation is completed, these premises will be connected with the sewer it isproposed to provide. 29 For cesspool emptying, a tank vehicle is employed, the contents being pumped out and afterwards discharged into the sewers. |
e07fbb36-a022-4c0f-b6e0-19e512102bb1 | Privymiddens are emptied into tumbrils and the contents buried ; the same remark being applicable to pail-closets. Housing Statistics for the year 1929. 1. GENERAL. Number of new houses erected during the year :— (i) Total 700 (ii) As part of a municipal housing scheme— (a) Barking 206 (b) L.C.C 257 (iii) Others (including private enterprise and subsidy houses) 237 2. UNFIT DWELLING HOUSES. I.—Inspection. (i) Total number of dwelling houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) .. .. .. 4.413 (ii) Number of dwelling houses which were inspected and recorded under the Housing (Inspection of District) Regulation ;, 1910 1,148 (iii) Number of dwelling houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to . |
83938a10-3931-4f71-9cca-e91b8e45e447 | health as to be unfit for human habitation .. .. .. .. .. 10 r (iv) Number of dwelling houses (exclusive of 1 those referred to under the preceding sub-heading) found not to be in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation .. .. .. .. .. 2,420 30 II.—Remedy of Defects without Service of Formal Notices. Number of defective dwelling houses rendered fit in consequence of informal action by the Local Authority or their officers. 2,191 III.—Action under Statutory Powers. A.—Proceedings under Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925. (i) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which notices were served requiring repairs 112 (ii) Number of dwelling houses which were rendered fit— . (a) by owners 109 (b) by Local Authority in default of owners 3 (iii) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which Closing Orders became operative in pursuance of declarations of owners of intention to close Nil B.—Proceedings under Public Health Act. |
884c7d06-9125-44ba-92ef-91f5fb57eab9 | (i) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which notices were served requiring defects to be remedied 379 (ii) Number of dwelling houses in which defects were remedied:— (a) by owners 379 (b) by local Authority in default of owners Nil 31 C.—Proceedings under Sections 11, 14 and 15 of the Housing Act, 1925:— (i) Number of representations made with a view to the making of Closing Orders 9 (ii) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which Closing Orders were made 9 (iii) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which Closing Orders were determined, the dwelling houses having been rendered fit Nil (iv) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which Demolition Orders were made Nil (v) Number of dwelling houses demolished in pursuance of Demolition Orders. Nil SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA Work of Sanitary Inspectors. 1. Inspection of Dwelling Houses. |
b0373196-7aad-413c-a2a9-1c106d0f467d | Total under Public Health or Housing Acts 4,413 Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations 1,148 After Infectious Disease 573 Defects Found 8,435 Notices Served (Preliminary) 2,420 Re-inspections re Notices Served 3,108 2. Premises Controlled by Bye-Laws and Regulations. Houses Let in Lodgings 33 Common Lodging Houses 63 Offensive Trades 190 Tents, Vans and Sheds 76 Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 267 Slaughter-houses 98 32 3. Factories, Workshops and. Workplaces. Factories 116 Laundries 22 Bakehouses 42 Other Workshops 87 Other Workplaces 81 Outworkers' Rooms 22 Butchers' Premises 382 Fishmongers 114 Restaurants and Dining Rooms 80 Markets 120 Stables and Stable Yards 136 Piggeries 120 4. Miscellaneous. |
b7ed8014-db6d-4050-918e-e5a109bd6ab3 | Smoke Observations 133 Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919 149 Vacant Land and Refuse Dumps 209 Public Lavatories 48 Schools 46 General Shops 160 Ice-Cream Vendors 100 Petroleum Stores 83 Small-Pox Contacts Visited 307 SUMMARY OF SANITARY WORK CARRIED OUT. (a) Drainage. Choked drains, opened, repaired, and cleansed 192 Drains reconstructed 82 New Drains nil Ventilation Shafts repaired or new fixed 27 New Inspection Covers 6 33 (b) Closet Accommodation. Roofs Walls Floors Doors W.C. structures repaired 103 Seats Fixed 83 W.C. Pans Fixed or Cleansed 157 Flushing Apparatus Repaired or Renewed 319 Privies to Pail Closets nil (c) Sinks. New Fixed 130 New Sink Wastepipes 1ll New Gullies 144 (d) Dampness. |
33fdaa9a-8e80-4400-afca-6cda43f31ce6 | Roofs 909 Eavesgutters 482 Rainwater Pipes 170 Damp Walls Remedied 403 (e) Water Supply. Storage Cisterns Abolished 11 Defective Water Fittings Repaired and Supply Reinstated 136 Existing supplies increased 14 (f) Yard Paving. Yard paving repaired or relaid 255 (g) Dustbins. New ones provided 533 34 (h) General Repairs. House floors repaired 353 Windows repaired or renewed 160 Window sills repaired or renewed 174 Sashcords renewed 460 Stoves or coppers repaired or renewed 470 House doors repaired or renewed 263 Stairs repaired 100 Chimney pots renewed and stacks rebuilt 106 Dirty or defective rooms repaired, cleansed and redecorated 1,709 Insufficient floor ventilation 160 External painting 31 (i) Miscellaneous. |
ed8e10a1-2d55-474d-8b0f-f40345d39571 | Offensive accumulations removed 53 Animals so kept as to be a nuisance 27 Verminous rooms and persons disinfected 35 Smoke nuisances 44 Drains tested 468 Dangerous structures reported 64 NOTICES SERVED. Informal Notices 2,420 Statutory Notices 491 Section 36, Public Health Act, 1875 48 491 Section 94, Public Health Act, 1875 329 Section 41, Public Health Act, 1875 1 Section 5, Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890 1 Section 3, Housing Act, 1925 112 SMOKE ABATEMENT. During the year 139 smoke observations were carried out on factory chimneys and action taken with respect to the 44 offences registered. 35 The question of atmosphere pollution and its attendant evils is still receiving the earnest attention of health research workers, but so far, owing to the absence of legislation with respect to domestic chiemneys. |
2a380ffc-bae2-4584-891d-a00f464caa3a | the general improvement in the purity of the air is unsitisfactory. Smokeless fuel for open grates is not yet produced in sufficient quantity to prove a solution of our troubles. It seems to me, however, that smokeless fuel may well become in the future one of our chief methods of smoke abatement. Such smokeless fuel is being produced in Barking, and I hope that improved methods of production will improve the quality of the product and that increased production will enable it to be marketed at an economic figure. I should certainly like to see smokeless fuel used extensively as comprehensive experiment. Factory chimneys are now rarely found offending for any length of time, largely due to the use of improved methods in the application of coal, the utilisation of waste heat and the extended use of gas and electricity. The problem of smoke abatement as it affects the electricity generating station at Creeksmouth is a very difficult one. |
fbbc8055-b6cd-4712-80ba-b75b990218cc | We know that the officials at that station are constantly endeavouring to obtain satisfactory combustion conditions and we hope that the}' will shortly overcome the many difficulties which up to the present have not been satisfactorily solved. The question of adopting a bye-law limiting black smoke comission, is in abeyance pending the result of an application made to the Ministry of Health with respect to the Greater London Area. With reference to the general question of the smoke problem Set before you in my last Annual Report, it is unfortunate that chemists and engineers have not provided a suitable alternative to the. common coal lire for domestic purposes. 36 The practice of sending poisonous gases through more or less leaky tubes will be looked upon in time as one of the farcical incongruities of our age, and the cost of electricity for heating when the need for adequate ventilation is taken into account makes it impracticable to use electricity for general domestic heating. OFFENSIVE TRADES. |
deaecdec-1d46-4cd1-8641-7de9a40a02e5 | The 36 registered premises received 190 visits and 31 breaches of the bye laws were found. The isolated position of the piggeries at Jenkins Lane mitigates any serious nuisance, but conditions at these piggeries are far from the standard we would wish to obtain. The 68 stables in the district received 136 visits during the summer months. COMMON LODGING HOUSES. Sixty-three visits were paid to the two common lodging houses. TENTS, VANS, SHEDS and HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS. Until such time as homes can be obtained at rentals which the poorest of the poor can afford to pay, premises of the above type will be found occupied. The best one can say of them is that they are a habitation In Barking there are a number of families living in such dwellings, all hopeful of obtaining a house. The premises need constant supervision to secure maintenance of anything like decent home conditions. 37 INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. |
8b981f2f-3414-4dfd-bee0-960c1a0d6a7a | MILK SUPPLY. Including five whose premises are situated outside the district, there are 37 retail purveyors. The premises are frequently inspected. Generally speaking, the cleanliness of the milk supplied is of a satisfactory standard. Of the samples examined during the year it is interesting to note that 6 samples of raw milk submitted were unsatisfactory, 4 samples of pasteurised milk, and 1 sample of Grade A (T.T.) milk were found below the standard of cleanliness. During the year one dairyman was prosecuted for the bottling of milk in the street. Whilst the sanitary inspectors are always on the alert for instances of street bottling, they cannot be aware of every offence. Below are particulars of samples submitted for bacteriological examination:— Type of Sample. Satisfactory Unsatisfactory . Grade A (T.T.) |
46aa9f3f-652f-46cc-b286-fd6f78c20270 | Milk 6 1 7 Grade A Milk — — - Raw Milk 17 6 23 Pasteurised Milk 4 4 8 Sterilised Milk — — — 27 11 38 The following table shows the number of licences granted during the year for the sale of graded milks under the Milk (Special designations) Order, 1923:— (a) " Certified " Milk 1 (b) Grade A Milk 1 (c) " Pasteurised " Milk 3 (d) Grade A (T.T.) 9 38 Licences were granted to 2 local firms for the bottling of Grade A (T.T.Milk. There are in the district 44 retailers and 9 wholesale distributors of sterilised milk. A considerable amount of milk is sold in Barking as ordinary milk, which, to our knowledge, has been pasteurised. This, I believe, is not an offence at law. |
e1694f82-c53d-4852-9b37-75b30cacd09b | The unfortunate thing is that if this milk which has been pasteurised were sold as pasteurised milk instead of as ordinary milk, we could demand a much higher standard of bacterial purity than oftentimes obtains. The law very rightly demands a higher standard for pasteurised milk than for ordinary milk, because pasteurised milk is a more vulnerable food product than ordinary milk. I recommend to you that you endeavour to promote legislation to enforce that any milk which has been pasteurised shall be so designated and shall be subject to the standards governing pasteurised milk at the present time. MEAT INSPECTION. Slaughtering is still carried on at the one licensed premises in the town. The occupier slaughters good-class animals in a satisfactory manner. During the year 72 notifications to slaughter were received and 64 beasts, 137 pigs, 426 sheep, and 10 calves were examined. 39 Diseased meat was destroyed as under:— Description. Disease. t. |
ec8bbe5c-22a3-46f9-afc3-4f232e6940ef | 2 Beasts, Lungs Tuberculosis 24 lbs. 1 „ Lung Echinococcus 10 lbs. 1 „ Pluck Tuberculosis 24 lbs. 17 „ Livers Distomatosis 238 lbs. 2 „ Livers Tuberculosis 8 lbs. 1 „ Mesentic fat „ 2 calves, Plucks ,, 14 lbs. 2 sheeps, Plucks Parasites 14 lbs. 16 „ Livers Distomatosis 64 lbs. 61 „ Lungs Parasites 183 lbs. 9 Pigs, Heads Tuberculosis 126 lbs. 17 „ Plucks ,, 119lbs. 2 „ Livers Angioma 10lbs. 8 „ Livers Tuberculosis 24 lbs. 12 „ Lungs Parasites 36 lbs. 1 „ Lung Inflammation 3 lbs. 7 „ Mesenteries and fats Tuberculosis 3 „ Carcases and offal. ,, 300 lbs. Total weight 1,197 lbs. |
2510ae1a-332b-4fa0-8415-0ff784d0c745 | The following table gives particulars of notifications received, and the animals slaughtered, during the period April 1st, 1925, to December 31st, 1929. Year 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Total. Notifications Received 110 109 150 126 72 567 Cuttle 102 3 97 40 64 306 Pigs 74 86 204 109 137 910 Sheep 519 611 786 815 426 157 Calves — 156 137 71 10 3374 Totals 695 856 1224 1315 637 4747 40 The question of providing a public abattoir has been mooted during the year 1929. The above table shows the amount of slaughtering which has gone on in the town during the past five years. |
f35a5cda-ec15-4696-89f8-92535f5abb94 | It will, of course, be agreed that this amount of slaughtering does not justify public expenditure on the erection of an abattoir and the case for a public abattoir must rest on how much extra work of this nature would be undertaken if the facilities were afforded. UNSOUND FOOD. The following list gives particulars of the unsound food destroyed during the year:— One pig's pluck, and one half pig's head. 3½ dozen escollops. During the year one butcher was prosecuted and fined £10 for exposing for sale diseased meat. SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS. I am indebted to Mr. H. C. Card, Chief Food and Drugs Officer of the Essex County Council for the following particulars of samples purchased and submitted for analysis during the year:— During the year ended 31st December, 1929, the following articles of food were taken in Barking and submitted to the Public Analyst for analysis:— Milk. Butter. Other Samples. |
b51052fb-c117-43d1-9c69-61550378f8f7 | Total. 64 75 65 204 One prosecution for adulterated pepper resulted in a fine of 10s. and 6s. costs. 41 SCHOOLS. All the schools in the district are regularly inspected, when any defect in the sanitary arrangements or water supply are dealt with. With one exception, the whole of the schools are connected with the sewer. Castle School, Rippleside, is cesspool drained. The schools of the district were built, as I have said on many occasions, not wisely but too well. With the development of the Becontree Estate an exceptional opportunity presents itself for school construction on hygienic principles. The Council, through the Education Committee, is responsible for seeing that the schools are provided, and of course it is expected that the schools would be suitable, and the Council, through the Public Health Committee, is responsible for seeing that the schools are suitable. |
d7a84280-b1d1-4a8b-be11-90e1c6081b73 | Where, as in Barking, the Medical Officer of Health is School Medical Officer, a lot of unnecessary duplicating of actual work is avoided and there is not the need for conferences between the Education Committee and the Health Committee which there would otherwise be, but in order to emphasize the importance of the hygienic principles of school construction it might be wise that on the Committee dealing with school construction there should be members definitely representing the Health Committee. This matter is not of such pressing moment now when most of the members of the Council sit on both Committees, but it may well become very important when in the future, owing to the large amount of work which is being transacted the actual number of members sitting on each individual Committee would be restricted. 42 FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework. 1. Inspections (including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.) Premises. Number of Inspections. Written Notices. Prosecutions. |
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