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Willesden 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: Table No . 7.Showing attendances at the Municipal Centres each year since 1913.

Table No . 7.

Showing attendances at the Municipal Centres each year since 1913.

Year.Mothers and Children under 5 years.School Children.Total.School for Mothers.Nursery.Miscellaneous.Grand Total.
Medical.Dental.Total.Medical.Dental.Total.
1913000299029929900299
19140002,51702,5172,517002,517
19150005,67405,6745,674005,674
191638903899,59309,5939,982009,982
19178,64108,6419,44809,44818,0890018,089
191832,1691,16533,33415,8112,40318,21451,5484422051,812
191932,87087833,74846,17911,02457,20390,9511,0892,81494,854
192051,4681,82353,29164,58810,67075,258128,5492,3543,452134,355
192141,5621,66743,22957,0327,71864,750107,9791,7162,356112,051
192227,50589428,39939,9897,02547,01475,4131,6162,19079,219
192323,27153323,80440,3813,59943,98067,7842,7613,27073,815
192417,08252017,60234,8452,46037,305-54,9072,8962,80860,611
192526,11993627,05541,6955,12346,81873,8734,0743,81281,759
192639,0841,49140,57547,7865,90953,69594,2704,1263,645102,041
192740,9581,59342,55147,1996,58353,78296,3333,8473,291103,471
192840,7871,73342,52043,9566,48450,44092,9604,4853,355100,800
192943,4191,59845,01739,6986,30746,00591,0224,5233,44698,991
193059,3722,34161,71349,61010,53760,147121,8605,9585,371133,189
193176,3953,47379,86865,94215,18081,122160,9906,9286,98521,884196,787
193284,3424,38588,72767,98416,09484,058172,7856,5366,22728,817214,365
193384,7824,79189,57371,58715,65287,239176,8125,2975,26827,256214,633
193488,4725,03693,50862,21213,09575,307168,8155,3374,72630,139209,017
193592,6665,59698,26263,66612,44776,113174,3755,3435,29932,553217,570
193696,7285,752102,48067,73612,32580,061182,5415,1984,98538,440231,164
1937108,7155,143113,85871,62111,25082,871196,7294,2574,09242,169247,247
1938114,7695,265120,03467,81111,54179,352199,3864,8774,38747,312255,962
1939102,2255,492107,71744,6837,48552,168159,8853,0672,94352,147218,042
194079,3065,00084,30616,0174,11720,134104,440--50,841*155,281

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*This includes the 317 attendances made by Secondary and Technical School children and the
1,119 by adults and others under Section 181 of the Public Health Act, 1936, which are shown in the
footnote to Table No. 6.
Two School Children were treated under the Council's Scheme by X-rays for Ringworm of the
Scalp.
4,365 Individual Public Elementary School Children attended the Municipal Centres during 19405,480
,, Children under 5 years of age attended the Municipal Centres during 1940.
2,771 ,, Expectant Mothers ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,
2,943 ,, Nursing Mothers „ „ „ „ „ „
UNCLEANLINESS AND SCABIES.
There has been some increase in the number of these conditions coming to the notice of the
Health Department in 1940.
The position amongst school children has already been dealt with under the School Medical
Service.
Nursing mothers made 16 attendances for cleansing at the Council's Health Centres as against
6 in 1939 and 2 in 1938 ; and adults, male and female, other than those attending under the Maternity
and Child Welfare Scheme made 556 attendances; 28 patients attending on account of verminous
conditions and 128 on account of Scabies. In 1939 the corresponding attendances were 150, and in
1938, 104.
There is no authority for the cleanliness inspection of children under 5 years of age, and these
children are not generally inspected except in nursery classes or as foster children, and sometimes
in connection with their nitty and verminous elder brothers and sisters. Children under 5 years
made 27 attendances for cleansing in 1940, as against 4 in 1939 and 8 in 1938.
SECONDARY AND JUNIOR TECHNICAL, ETC., SCHOOLS.
The arrangement by which the Medical Staff of the Willesden Council carry out the inspection
of pupils attending the Secondary and Technical Schools in Willesden, on behalf of the Middlesex
County Council has been continued. The total number of pupils on the rolls of the Willesden Secondary
and Technical Schools now included in this arrangement is approximately 3,000, but a number of
these were evacuated during the year.