[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF AREA

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VITAL STATISTICS

Registered Live Births:	Male	Female	Total	Willesden Borough Council

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Swimming Baths 125 samples were taken, 4 of which were unsatisfactory (see Public Health Laboratory Service, page 5).

Swimming bath	Samples taken	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory

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RODENT CONTROL Rodent control, as approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Infestation Branch) has been carried out in the properties below: —

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No. of old people using laundry service

On register 1.1.57	New cases	Died	Admitted to hospital	Recommenced after discharge from hospital	On register 31.12.57

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Inquests held on Willesden residents

	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957

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TABLES Table 1 DEATHS Causes:

	Males	Females	Total

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Infant Mortality Table 2 Infant Mortality and Stillbirths: Willesden and England and Wales

Year	Population	Registered Births Willesden	Deaths under 1 year Willesden	Infant death rate Willesden	Infant death rate England and Wales	Registered Stillbirths Willesden	Stillbirth rate Willesden	Stillbirth rate England and Wales

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Table 3 Infant Mortality:—by Wards

Ward	Number of deaths			Total 1955-57	Rate 1955-57
Ward	1955	1956	1957	Total 1955-57	Rate 1955-57

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Table 4 Infant Mortality—Causes (Based on Registrar General's Figures)

	1936-1939		1940-1945		1946-1950		1951-1955		1957 (1956 in brackets)
	1936-1939		1940-1945		1946-1950		1951-1955		Deaths			Rate
	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Neonatal	1-12 months	Total	Rate

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Table 5 Premature births and deaths (deaths in brackets)

Year	Births in home	Births in hospital	Home births transferred to hospital	Total

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Table 6 Premature births by wards

Ward	Premature births notified Percentage of live births in brackets

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Table 7 Infant Mortality: —Congenital malformations

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Table 8 Infant Mortality:—Infections (a) Causes

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(b) By Social Class

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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES Table 9 Bacteriological examination of milk, ice cream and water Milk examinations —251

		Schools (pasteurised)	Dealers' premises					Total
		Schools (pasteurised)	Pasteurised	T.T. pasteurised		Sterilised		Total

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Table 10 Uncleanliness and Scabies

		New cases treated			Attendances
		Scabies	Lice and nits	Total	Scabies	Lice and nits	Total

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HEALTH EDUCATION Table 11 Talks

	No. visited	Total No. of talks	Subjects	Total attendances	No. of attendances

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Table 12 Mothercraft

No. of clinics	Total No. of classes	Visits by health visitors

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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Table 13 Infectious diseases

	1957 (1956 in brackets)
	Notified		Confirmed		Deaths

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Table 14 Whooping Cough Cases and Deaths: Willesden and England and Wales

	Cases confirmed		Case rate per 1,000 population		Children vaccinated in Willesden
Year	Willesden	England & Wales	Willesden	England & Wales	Children vaccinated in Willesden

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Table 15 Poliomyelitis

	0—15 years	15 years and over	Total

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Table 16 Tuberculosis: Notified cases and deaths

Year	Population	New cases			Deaths			Cases on register
Year	Population	Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary	All forms	Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary	All forms	Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary	All forms

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Table 17 Tuberculosis: Case rate and death rate

Year	Population	New cases Rate per 100,000 population			Deaths Rate per 100,000 population
Year	Population	Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary	All forms	Pulmonary	Non-pulmonary	All forms

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Table 18 Bronchitis: Deaths

Year	Males	Females	Total	Rate per 100,000 population

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Table 19 Malignant neoplasms lung and bronchus: Deaths

Year	Males	Females	Total	Rate per 100,000 Population

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Table 20 Tuberculosis: New cases and deaths by age groups (Deaths in brackets)

Age groups	New cases
	Respiratory		Non-respiratory
	Male	Female	Male	Female

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Table 21 Tuberculosis 1957: Cases by wards

Ward	Pulmonary cases	Non-pulmonary cases	Pulmonary rate per 1,000	Combined rate per 1,000

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Table 22 Tuberculosis 1955—1957: Cases by wards

Ward	Pulmonary cases	Non-pulmonary cases	Pulmonary rate per 1,000	Combined rate per 1,000

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Table 23 Tuberculin Testing, 1953-1957

	Children under 5 years			School children (5 years)			School leavers
	Tested	Positive	% Positive	Tested	Positive	% Positive	Tested	Positive	% Positive

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Table 24 Tuberculosis: B.C.G. vaccination of school leavers, 1953-1957

	No. tested and found negative	No. vaccinated

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Table 25 Tuberculosis: Notification of deaths

	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1952-57

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Table 26 Demolition and Closing Orders Housing Act, 1957 (Sections 16 and 18)

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Table 27 Overcrowding

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Table 28 New Dwellings, 1957

	Houses	Flats	Rebuilds

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Table 29 Housing Defects

	1957	1956

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Table 30 Notices served under Public Health Act, 1936 and Housing Act, 1957

Intimation notices served	1,208	1,940

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Table 31 Certificates of Disrepair

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Table 32 Summary of nuisances and of improvements effected Water suppply and water service

	1957	1956

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Table 33 Inspection of factories, outworkers premises and food factories

	1957		1956
	No.	Inspections	No.	Inspections
	inspected	made	inspected	made

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Table 34 Other inspections

	1957		1956
	No.	Inspections	No.	Inspections
	inspected	made	inspected	made

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Table 35 Examination of sulphur by lead peroxide method, (milligrams of SO 3 per day per 100 square centimetres)

Site	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December

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Table 36 Monthly deposits in tons per square mile

Power Station	Acton Lane		Taylors Lane		Neasden
Site	Barretts Green Road	Minet Gardens	Ascot Park	Neasden Lane	Press Road	Wembley Trading Estate	Town Hall

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Table 37

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Table 38 Food premises: Defects remedied

Defects	Outstanding at 31.12.56	Found during the year	Total	Remedied during year	Outstanding at 31.12.57

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Table 39 Food premises: Registration

	Premises on register 31.12.56	Applications received	Applications granted	Applications refused	Premises removed from register during 1957	Total on register at 31.12.57		Inspections made

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Table 40 Food unfit for human consumption

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Table 41 Types of food premises

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Table 42 Improvements in food premises

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Table 43 Food:Samples taken

Article	No. of samples	Unsatisfactory

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Table 44 Dairies—Registration and Licences

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FACTORIES Table 45 On register

Type of factory	On register 1.1.57	Added to register	Deleted from register	Totals at 31.12.57

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Table 46 Factories inspected, defects found, and action taken

Type of factory	Inspected	Total inspections	Total unsatisfactory and informal notice served	Outstanding from 1956	Made satisfactory 1957	Outstanding 31.12.57

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Non-power factories:Details of defects

	During 1957	Outstanding from 1956	Remedied during 1957	Outstanding at 31.12.57

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Power factories:Details of defects of sanitary Accommodation

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Table 47 Outworkers and homeworkers

Premises inspected	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory and notice served	Remedied

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CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN Table 48 Ante-natal Clinics

Clinic		Sessions	New cases		Attendances		Average attendance per session
Clinic		Sessions	Antenatal	Postnatal	Antenatal	Postnatal	Average attendance per session

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Table 49 Births Hospital and Domiciliary

	1957	1956

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Table 50 Mothercraft

Clinic			Sessions	New cases	Total attendances	Average attendance per session

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Table 51 Relaxation Classes

Clinic		Sessions	New cases	Total attendances	Average attendance per session

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Table 52 Child Welfare Clinics

Clinic		Sessions	First attendances (Under 1 year)	Attendances			Total attendances	Seen by doctor	Average attendance per session
Clinic		Sessions	First attendances (Under 1 year)	Under 1 year	1—2 years	2—5 years	Total attendances	Seen by doctor	Average attendance per session

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MIDWIFERY SERVICE Table 53 Midwives' Clinics

	Sessions	New Cases	Total attendances	Average attendance

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Table 54 Midwives—Administration of gas and air analgesia

		Domiciliary midwives employed by local health authority

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Table 55 Domiciliary Births

Attended by midwives				Visits made to mothers discharged from hospitals before 14th day
Dr. not booked		Dr. booked
Dr. present at delivery	Dr. not present at delivery	Dr. present at delivery	Dr. not present at delivery
Dr. present at delivery	Dr. not present at delivery	Dr. present at delivery	Dr. not present at delivery	Mothers	Visits

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Table 56 Medical Aid

	1957	1956

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Medical Aid

For Mother		For Child

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HEALTH VISITING Table 57 Visits made by Health Visitors

Year	Expectant Mothers		Children under 1 year		Children 1—2 years	Children 2—5 years	Tuberculous Households	General
Year	First	Total	First	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total as health visitor	Total as school nurse

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Table 58 Cases referred by General Practitioners for:—

Care of children	Elderly persons	General advice	Hospital admission	Home help	Welfare foods	Others	Total

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Table 59 Establishment:Health Visitors

	Whole time equivalent as at:
	31.12.56	31.12.57

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HOME NURSING Table 60 Work: Home Nurses

		New Cases		Visits	Cases on register at end of year
		Male	Female		Male	Female

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Table 61 Establishment:Home Nurses

Nurses	1.1.57	31.12.57

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SMALLPOX Table 62 Vaccination

		Under 1 year	1 year	2—4 years	5—14 years	15 years and over	Total

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DIPHTHERIA Table 63 Immunisation

Age at 31.12.57	Under 1	1	2	3	4	5—9	10—14	Totals

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POLIOMYELITIS VACCINATION Table 64

Year of Birth	No. registered at 31.12.57	No. received two injections at 31.12.57

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Table 65 Cases:Home Helps

	Cases receiving help at		No. of new cases helped during		No. of cases receiving help at
	1.1.57	1.1.56	1957	1956	31.12.57	31.12.56

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Table 66 Staff: Home Helps

	Position at		Appointments during		Resignations during		Position at
Whole time	1.1.57	1.1.56	1957	1956	1957	1956	31.12.57	31.12.56

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DAY NURSERIES Table 67 Day Nurseries: Attendances

Day Nursery		Approved places		Children on register at 31.12.57		Attendances for the year		Average daily attendances
Day Nursery		0-2 years	2-5 years	0-2 years	2-5 years	0-2 years	2-5 years	0-2 years	2-5 years

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Table 68 Day Nurseries:Applications

Nursery	Applications received	Children admitted	Children left

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Table 69 Day Nursery Applicants Not Admitted

Reason	Number of applications	Percentage

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Table 70 Day Nurseries: Priorities

Nursery	Unsupported Mothers	Medical reasons		Bad Housing	Total on Register	Priorities as percentage of total

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Table 71 Day Nurseries:Infectious Diseases Number of Cases

Nursery	Measles	Scarlet Fever	Chicken Pox	Gastroenteritis	Mumps	German Measles	Whooping Cough

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Table 72 Day Nursery Staff Establishment

	Establishment	Position as at:
	Establishment	31.12.56	31.12.57

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SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE Table 73 Numbers of Pupils Attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools who were Medically Inspected

	Periodic age groups				Additional periodic inspections	Other inspections
	Entrants	Age 10 & 11 years	Leavers	Totals	Additional periodic inspections	Special inspections	Re- inspections

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Table 74 Pupils Found to Require Treatment

Periodic age groups inspected	For defective vision (excluding squint)	For any of the other conditions in Table 76	Total individual pupils

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Classification of the Physical Condition of Pupils

Periodic age groups inspected	Number of pupils inspected	Satisfactory		Unsatisfactory
Periodic age groups inspected	Number of pupils inspected	Number	% of column (2)	Number	% of column (2)

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Table 76 Defects Found by Medical Inspection

Defect or disease *	Periodic inspections						Special inspections
	Entrants		Leavers		Total —including all other age groups inspected		Special inspections
	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)

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Table 77 Treatments:School Health Service

	Number of cases known to have been dealt with
(i) Eye Diseases, Defective Vision and Squint (a) External and other, excluding errors of refraction and squint	by the County Council		Otherwise

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Table 78 Pupils found at periodic medical inspection who have undergone tonsillectomy

Periodic age group inspected	Number of pupils inspected		Number who have undergone tonsillectomy at any time		Percentage of those inspected found to have had tonsillectomy
Periodic age group inspected	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls

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Table 79 Orthoptics—Cases seen at Willesden Health Clinic

No. treated	Placed on operation waiting list		No treatment required		Failed to attend		Total

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Table 80 Audiometry:Children Tested

Total tested	Absentees	Failure			Total
		Both ears	One ear
			L.	R.

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Table 81 Summary of Failures to pass Audiometer Test

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Table 82 Speech Therapy

Clinic or School		No. of cases dealt with during the year

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Table 83 Infestation with Vermin

	1957	1956

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Table 84 Employment of Children and Young Persons

	1957	1956

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Table 85 Medical Examination of Teachers

	1957	1956

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Table 86 Return of Handicapped Pupils (Year Ended 31st December , 1957)

Ascertainment								Distribution (as at last day of Year)
Category		No. of ascertained cases known 1st day of Year		No. of New Cases ascertained during year		No. of ascertained Cases known last day of Year		In Special Day Schools		In Special Residential Schools		In Maintained Primary and Secy. Schools		In Independent Schools		Not at School		Total
		B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.	B.	G.

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Leinster Special School for Educationally Sub-Normal Pupils

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Lower Place Special School for Physically Handicapped Pupils

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Table 88 The Educational Sub-Normal Education Act, 1944 — Sections 57 (3), 57 (4) and 57 (5)

	1957	1956

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CHILD GUIDANCE Child Guidance (Table 89)

Waiting list at 1.1.57	Total cases seen by Psychiatrist	New cases seen by Psychiatrist	Other cases seen by Psychiatrist	New cases referred	Cases not requiring to be seen by Psychiatrist	Waiting list at 31.12.57

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Table 89a

Main Symptoms	Cases

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RHEUMATISM Table 90 Clinic—Attendances (Figures in backets are those found to be suffering from Rheumatism)

Total attendances	History of rheumatism	Dampness in home	Social Groups IV and V

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Table 91 Rheumatism Treatment

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SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE Table 92 Inspection and Treatment

Age Groups	Inspected		Required Treatment			Referred for Treatment
Age Groups	1957	1956	1957		1956	1957	1956

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(b) Treatment

	1957	1956

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PRIORITY DENTAL SERVICE Table 93

	Expectant Mothers		Nursing Mothers		Children under 5
	1957	1956	1957	1956	1957	1956

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Table 94 Chiropody—Defects

Condition	Expectant and Nursing Mothers	Boys		Girls		Total
Condition	Expectant and Nursing Mothers	0—5 yrs.	School	0—5 yrs.	School	Total

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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF AREA

VITAL STATISTICS

Swimming Baths 125 samples were taken, 4 of which were unsatisfactory (see Public Health Laboratory Service, page 5).

RODENT CONTROL Rodent control, as approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Infestation Branch) has been carried out in the properties below: —

No. of old people using laundry service

Inquests held on Willesden residents

TABLES Table 1 DEATHS Causes:

Infant Mortality Table 2 Infant Mortality and Stillbirths: Willesden and England and Wales

Table 3 Infant Mortality:—by Wards

Table 4 Infant Mortality—Causes (Based on Registrar General's Figures)

Table 5 Premature births and deaths (deaths in brackets)

Table 6 Premature births by wards

Table 7 Infant Mortality: —Congenital malformations

Table 8 Infant Mortality:—Infections (a) Causes

(b) By Social Class

GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES Table 9 Bacteriological examination of milk, ice cream and water Milk examinations —251

Table 10 Uncleanliness and Scabies

HEALTH EDUCATION Table 11 Talks

Table 12 Mothercraft

PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Table 13 Infectious diseases

Table 14 Whooping Cough Cases and Deaths: Willesden and England and Wales

Table 15 Poliomyelitis

Table 16 Tuberculosis: Notified cases and deaths

Table 17 Tuberculosis: Case rate and death rate

Table 18 Bronchitis: Deaths

Table 19 Malignant neoplasms lung and bronchus: Deaths

Table 20 Tuberculosis: New cases and deaths by age groups (Deaths in brackets)

Table 21 Tuberculosis 1957: Cases by wards

Table 22 Tuberculosis 1955—1957: Cases by wards

Table 23 Tuberculin Testing, 1953-1957

Table 24 Tuberculosis: B.C.G. vaccination of school leavers, 1953-1957

Table 25 Tuberculosis: Notification of deaths

Table 26 Demolition and Closing Orders Housing Act, 1957 (Sections 16 and 18)

Table 27 Overcrowding

Table 28 New Dwellings, 1957

Table 29 Housing Defects

Table 30 Notices served under Public Health Act, 1936 and Housing Act, 1957

Table 31 Certificates of Disrepair

Table 32 Summary of nuisances and of improvements effected Water suppply and water service

Table 33 Inspection of factories, outworkers premises and food factories

Table 34 Other inspections

Table 35 Examination of sulphur by lead peroxide method, (milligrams of SO 3 per day per 100 square centimetres)

Table 36 Monthly deposits in tons per square mile

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Table 38 Food premises: Defects remedied

Table 39 Food premises: Registration

Table 40 Food unfit for human consumption

Table 41 Types of food premises

Table 42 Improvements in food premises

Table 43 Food:Samples taken

Table 44 Dairies—Registration and Licences

FACTORIES Table 45 On register

Table 46 Factories inspected, defects found, and action taken

Non-power factories:Details of defects

Power factories:Details of defects of sanitary Accommodation

Table 47 Outworkers and homeworkers

CARE OF MOTHERS AND YOUNG CHILDREN Table 48 Ante-natal Clinics

Table 49 Births Hospital and Domiciliary

Table 50 Mothercraft

Table 51 Relaxation Classes

Table 52 Child Welfare Clinics

MIDWIFERY SERVICE Table 53 Midwives' Clinics

Table 54 Midwives—Administration of gas and air analgesia

Table 55 Domiciliary Births

Table 56 Medical Aid

Medical Aid

HEALTH VISITING Table 57 Visits made by Health Visitors

Table 58 Cases referred by General Practitioners for:—

Table 59 Establishment:Health Visitors

HOME NURSING Table 60 Work: Home Nurses

Table 61 Establishment:Home Nurses

SMALLPOX Table 62 Vaccination

DIPHTHERIA Table 63 Immunisation