Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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| Male. | Female. | Total. | |||
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| District. | 1929. | Birth-rates in previous years. | |||||
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| No. of births. | Birth-rate. | 1928. | 1927. | 1926. | 1925. | 1924. | |
| Period. | Birth-rate per 1,000 population. |
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| Source of notification. | Number of births notified. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still births. | Live births. | Total births. | ||
| Year. | Percentage |
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| District. | 1929 | Death-rates in previous years. | |||||
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| No. of deaths. | Death-rate. | 1928. | 1927. | 1926. | 1925. | 1924 | |
| Period. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. |
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| Cause of death. | Number of deaths. |
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| Deaths from principal zymotic diseases per 1,000 persons living. |
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| Parts affected. | Sex. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | ||
| Four Weeks ending | Measles. | Scarlet fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Influenza. | Phthisis. | Cancer. | Bronchitis. | Pneumonia. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis. |
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| District. | 1929. | Infantile mortality rates in previous four years. | |||||
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| No. of births. | No. of deaths of children under 1 year of age. | Infantile mortality rate. | |||||
| 1928 | 1927 | 1926 | 1925 | ||||
| Period. | England and Wales. | London. | Kensington. |
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| Causes of death. | Under I week. | 1—2 weeks. | 2—3 weeks. | 3—4 weeks. | Total 4 weeks. | 1—3 months | 3—6 months | 6—9 months | 9—12 months. | Total infant deaths under 1 year. |
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| Year. | No. of births. | No. of deaths under one year. | No. of deaths from premature birth. | Percentage of deaths of premature infants. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Legitimate. | Illegitimate. |
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| Cause of death. | No. died. | No. breast fed. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature of Infection. | Premises Disinfected. | Room Disinfected. | Disinfections at Wood Lane. | No. of Articles Disinfected. |
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| Disease suspected. | Examinations. | Positive. |
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| Year. | Bathers. |
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| Year. | Washers. |
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| Scabies— | Total Cleansings. |
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| (a) Numbers. |
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| Boys. | Girls. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number examined | Entrants. 987 | Age 8. 859 | Age 12. 548 | Age 14. 659 | Entrants. 991 | Age 8. 889 | Age 12. 573 | Age 14. 719 | ||||||||
| Defect. | | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred fortreat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treat-ment. | Cases. | Cases referred for treaT-ment. |
| Age Group. | Number examined. | Clothing and Boots. | Nutrition. | Cleanliness of Head. | Cleanliness of Body | Teeth. | Vision. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good. | Fair. | Poor. | Good. | Average. | Below normal. | Bad. | Clean. | Nits | Pediculi, | Clean. | Dirty. | Pediculi. | All sound- | Less than 4 decayed. | Four or more decayed. | 6/6 in both eyes. | 6/9 in either or both eyes. | 6/12 or worse in either eye | ||
| New Cases. | Total attendances. |
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| Cases. | Visits. |
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| Subscriptions to Hospitals, etc. | £. | s. | d. |
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| £. | s. | d. |
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| DESCRIPTION OF INSPECTIONS, &c. | NUMBER OF DISTRICT | Grand Total | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| NUMBER OF DISTRICT | Grand Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| DESCRIPTION OF WORK, &c. | NUMBER OF DISTRICT. | Grand Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| Nature of Offence. | Number of Summonses beard before the Magistrates. | Magistrates' Decisions. |
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| Voluntary work. | Work under notice. |
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| Number of individual premises visited by the Rat Officer |
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| Trade or Business. | Workshops. | Factories. | Total. |
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| Trade or Business. | Workshops. | Factories. | Total. |
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| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Description of Work | Health Officers. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | No. 4 | No. 5. | No. 6. | No. 7. | Total. | |
| Particulars of Work done. | Archer Street. | Bramley Road | Camp-den Hill. | Earl's Court. | Golborne. | Kenley Street. | Lancaster Road. | Raymede. | Totals. |
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| Centre. | No. of patients. | No. of attendances. | Extrac-tions. | Fillings. | Dentures. | Other Treatments. |
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| The following are the records for the year ending December 31st, 1929:— |
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| Records for the year 1929:— |
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| New Cases- |
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| 1925. | 1926. | 1927. | 1928. | 1929. |
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| Golborne. | Lancaster Road. | Notting Hill. | St. Clement's. | Totals. |
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| Expectant and Nursing Mothers. |
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| No. of pints of Milk granted. | Price per pint paid by by Recipients. | Estimated Cost to Council. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| No. of packets of Milk granted. | Price per 1 lb. packet paid by Recipients. | Estimated Cost to Council. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | |||||
| Name of Welfare Centre at which the dried milk was distributed. | No. of 1lb. packets sold. | Value of milk sold. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| No. of dinners granted. | Price per Dinner paid by Recipients. | Estimated Cost to Council. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| Centre. | Representatives. |
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| Ward. | Name of registered keeper. | Address of common lodging house. | No. of lodgers for which licensed in 1929. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | |||
| Single family houses. | Self-contained flats. | Tenement houses let in lodgings. | Totals. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of hou-ses or flats | No. of families. | No. of persons. | ||||
| Months. | Number of Formal Samples Taken. | Average Composition of all Samples Submitted, Genuine and Adulterated. | Average Composition of Genuine Samples. | Ministry of Agriculture Standard. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of Milk Fat. | Percentage of Solids not Fat. | Percentage of Milk Fat | Percentage of Solids not Fat. | Percentage of Milk Fat. | Percentage of Solids not Fat | ||
| Purveyors of milk in sealed bottles. | Dairymen. | Dairies and Milkshops. |
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| Sample collected oa. | Bacteria per 1 c.c. | Coli per l/10th c.c. |
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| Sample collected on. | Bacteria per c.c. | B Coli. | Action taken (if any.) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month. | Beasts. | Animals Slaughtered. Swine. | Sheep, |
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| Year. | Small Pox, | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever, | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Puer. peral Fever. | †Puerperal Pyrexia | Pneu. rnonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | P. M'itis & Polio. Ence. phalitis. | † Acute Rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal Meningitis. | Dysentery, | *Enter2 itis. | Total. |
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| Four Weeks ending | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria. | EnteriFever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia Neo. natorum. | Puer. peral Fever. | Puerperal Pyrexia . | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | P. M'itic & PolioEncephalitis. | Acute Rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal Meningitis. | Dysentery. | Enteritis. | Total. |
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| District. | Period No. 1. | Period No. 2. | Period No. 3. | Period No. 4. | Period No. 5. | Period No. 6. | Period No. 7. | Period No. 8. | Period No 9. | Period No. 10. | Period No. 11 | Period No 12. | Period No. 13. |
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| District. | Period No. 1. | Period No. 2. | Period No. 3 | Period No. 4. | Period No. 5. | Period No. 6. | Period No. 7. | Period No. 8. | Period No. 9. | Period No. 10. | Period No. 11 | Period No. 12 | Period No. 13. |
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| Case No. | Cases. | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Death. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated. | ||||||
| At home. | In hospital. | ||||||
| No. | Sex. | Age. | Date of Notification. | Result. |
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| No. | Sex. | Age. | Date of Notification. | Result. |
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| District. | Years. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920. | 1921. | 1922. | 1923. | 1924. | 1925. | 1926. | 1927 | 1928. | 1929. | |
| Age Periods. (Years). | New Cases† | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary- | ||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Year. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Otder Forms of Tuberculosis. | Tuberculosis (all.forms). | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Notifications. | No. of Deatds. | Deatds per 100,000 persons living. | No. of Notifications. | No. of Deatds. | Deatds per 100,000 persons living. | No. of Deatds. | Deatds per 100,000 persons living. | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. |
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| Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. |
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| Adults. | Children under 16 yrs. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males, | Females. | Males. | Females. | ||
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | |
| Women Health Officers. | total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | ||
| No. of Occupants. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| l | 2 | s | 4 | s | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | ||
| Year | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Transferable Deaths. | Nett Deaths belonging to the District | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncorrected is umber. | Nett. | |||||||||||
| of Non-residents registered . in the District. | , of Resi-dentsnot registered id the District. | Under 1 Year of Agt | At all Ages. | |||||||||
| Number. | Rate.' | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Nett Births. | Number. | Rate. | |||||
| Notifiable Disease | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages.—Years. | St. Charles. | Golborne. | Norland. | Pembridge. | Holland. | Earl's Court. | Queen's Gate. | Redcliffe. | Brompton. | |||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||||
| Causes of Death | Sex. | All Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 2 years. | 2 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 15 years. | 15 and under 25 years. | 25 and under 45 years, | 45 and under 65 years. | 65 and under 75 years. | 75 and upward |
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| Cause of Death. | Under 1 week. | 1-2 Weeks. | 2-3 Weeks. | 3-4 Weeks. | Total under 4 Weeks. | 1-3 Months. | 3-6 Months. | 6-9 Months. | 9-12 Months. | Total Deaths under One Year. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| health officers | Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
| DATE. | Regis'ration Sub-Districts comprised in Vaccination Officer's District. | Number of Births returned in Birth List Sheets. | Number of these Births duly entered ir Columns 1. 2, 4, and 5 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets), viz.: | Number of these Births which are not entered in the Vaccination Register, on account, (as shown by Report Book) of | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Column I. Success fully Vaccinated. | Column II. | Column V. Dead, Unvacci-nated.' | Postpone-ment by Medical Certificate. | Removed to other Dis-tricts and notified to Vaccination Officers of the Districts. | Removal to places unknown, or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found. | Not accounted for. | Total Number of Certificates of Successful Vaccination received during the Calendar Year, 1929. | ||||
| Insuscep-tible of Vaccination. | Certificate of Conscien-tious Objection. | ||||||||||
| 1928 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| Year of Appointment |
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