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Hornchurch 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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Public Health Act, 1925.
No action was taken during the year under section 66 of this Act.
Tuberculosis.
The notifications of cases of Tuberculosis included 34 males and 30 females suffering from Pulmonary and 11 males and 12 females suffering from Non-Pulmonary forms of the disease. The 37 deaths included those of 3 pulmonary cases and 1 meningitis which were not notified.
| Age periods | New cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 15 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
| 25 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| 35 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| 45 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 55 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| 65 | ||||||||
| 36 | 31 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 3 | |
No action was taken under the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925, or under section 62 of the Public Health Act,
1925, (relating to the compulsory removal to hospital of persons suffering
from tuberculosis).
Factory and Workshop Act.
There are 28 factories on the register at which the trades carried
on are as follows:—
Garages 3 Timber yards and factories 2
Metal Works 1 Printers 3
Typewriters and Office
niture Factory bakehouses .. 2
1 Factory bootmakers 2
Patent lock manufacturer 1 Sausage making 1
Blacksmith 1 Confectioner 1
Wax tapers and candles 1 Sand and gravel pit 1
Chemical manufacturer 1 Iron foundry 1
Perfume manufacturer 1 Miller 1
Leather belt manufacturer 1 Assembling tractors 1
Wooden house and shed Breeze block manufacturer 1
constructor 1
There are 69 workshops on the register at which the trades carried
on are as follows:—
Garages 18 Furrier 1
Blacksmiths 3 Sausage making 1
Boot repairers 9 Saddler 1
Bakehouses 10 Cycles and motors repair 10
Carpenters and joiners 8 Builder 1
Wearing apparel making 5 Plumber 1
Undertaker 1