[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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The following table shows the numbers of sanitary notices and summonses served in each ward of the borough in 1949:-

Ward	No. of sanitary notices served in 1949.	No. of summonses taken out under Public Health (London) Act in 1949.

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GENERAL DEATH RATE. The total number of deaths recorded in 1949 was 1,819 compared with 1,685 deaths in 1948. Owing to the increase in the population referred to above, the general death rate for last year, 10.4, shows only a slight increase over the lowest ever recorded figure of 10 for 1948. The increase in the total number of deaths was reflected mainly under the following headings:-

	1948	1949	Increase

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SUMMARY OP VITAL STATISTICS FOR KENSINGTON

Description	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944	1943	1942

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CAUSES OP DEATH AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE IN 1949

Cause of death	All ages	Under 1 year	1 year and under 5	5 years and under 45	45 years and over

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The new arrangements have proved satisfactory and the following is a summary of the work performed during the year.

Nature of specimen or sample.	Number examined.

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Medicinal Baths (Personal Cleansing Station) The record of work done is as follows:-

Description	Scabies		Vermin		Impetigo		Other conditions
Description	Persons	Clean -sings	Persons	Clean -sings	Persons	Clean -sings	Persons	Clean -sings

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The following is a summary of other action taken

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A summary of the work undertaken by the Council's woman health officer in connection with the care of old people is as follows

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SANITARY INSPECTION The following table shows a summary of the inspections, etc., carried out by the sanitary inspectors during the year:-

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The following table shows the number of notices issued in respect of nuisances, defects, etc., found during the year

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The following is a summary of works completed under the supervision of the sanitary inspectors during the year :-

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The post-war new housing schemes being dealt with by the Council are summarised as follows :-

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All cases of overcrowding are considered by the special Sub-Committee of the Public Health Committee with a view to deciding what action should be taken. The following are details of the cases dealt with in 1949:-

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Inspections

Premises	Number on Register	Number of Inspections	Number of Written Notices.

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Defects found

Particulars	No. of defects found.	No. of defects remedied.	No. of defects referred
			To H. M. Inspectors	By H. M. Inspectors

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The following table shows the nature of the work carried out by the 246 home workers on the register of outworkers during 1949 :-

Nature of work	Number

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All premises where food is prepared, stored or exposed for sale for human consumption are frequently inspected and the following is a record of the inspections made by the food inspectors engaged on this work for 1949 :-

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During the year particulars of licences granted were as follows

	Principal	Supplementary

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Details of licences granted during 1949 are as follows:- •

	Principal	Supplementary

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The following table shows the number of samples of processed milk taken during the year, together with results of examination:-

Grade	No. of samples	Methylene blue test		Phosphatase test
Grade	No. of samples	Passed.	Failed.	Passed.	Failed

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The following table shows percentages of milk fats and non-fat solids of the genuine samples taken during each month:-

Month	No.of samples taken	Average percentage
Month	No.of samples taken	Milk fats	Non-fat solids

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During the year the following amounts of food were surrendered and condemned as unfit for human consumptions-

	Tons.	Cwt.	Qrs.	Lbs.

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The following table shows the number of samples taken during the year for chemical analysis compared with 1948 :-

No. of samples		Variation of fat content.	Non-fat solids content	Average fat content	Average non-fat solids content

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During 1949, 98 samples of ice cream were taken and submitted to the Methylene Blue Test and the results were as follows:-

Grade		No.of Samples

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The following table shows particulars of notifications received in 1949:- Food poisoning notifications (corrected)

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The following table shows an analysis of the 28 notifications of individual cases, setting out the nature of the food suspected or proved to have "been at fault.

Type of food suspected	No. of cases	No. of patients where causative agent was identified
		Toxin	Salmon -ella	Chemical	Not proven

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The following table shows the age distribution of patients with and without paralysis

Age Groups (years)	Paralytic		Non-Paralytic		Total		Total persons
Age Groups (years)	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Notifications of Poliomyelitis (including Polio-Encephalitis)

	Mch.	Apl.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.

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The following table shows the number of cases added to and the number removed from, the notification register during the year

Description	Respiratory		Non-Respiratory		Total
Description	M.	F.	M.	F.	Total

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TABLE 1

Notifiable disease	Number of cases notified
Notifiable disease	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944	1943	1942
Scarlet fever	114	94	98	195	136	74	216	108
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	2	12	23	37	19	29	54	78
Enteric fever	7	4	4	6	3	3	3	1
Puerperal fever ø	—	—	5	4	7	18	10	7
Puerperal Pyrexia	33	25	9	8	12	23	25	7
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia	121	142	103	111	81	91	133	91
Dysentery	33	145	21	49	142	43	73	68
Erysipelas	15	24	34	37	33	16	37	30
Cerebro-spinal meningitis	8	4	7	10	3	6	11	17
Malaria	—	2	4	8	11	8	1	1
Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis	47	9	27	1	3	1	1	2
Encephalitis lethargica	1	—	2	—	11	—	—	—
Tuberculosis (all forms)	266	258	259	210	188	211	202	203
Measles	740	868	852	264	868	102	624	365
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	5	7	4	4	8	4	11	4
Enteritis +	88	64	102	69	100	71	69	96
Pood poisoning	33	11	7	7	6	7	4	8
Scabies /	106	141	239	463	460	363	252	—
Whooping cough	304	264	274	209	62	189	102	146

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TABLE 2

Notifiable Disease	Number of Cases Notified in 1949 Age Groups in Years
Notifiable Disease	Under 1	1 to 2	2 to 3	3 to 4	4 to 5	5 to 15	15 to 35	35 to 65	65 and over
Scarlet fever	-	6	11	11	12	66	6	2	-
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
Enteric fever	-	1	-	-	-	1	5	-	-
Puerperal Pyrexia	-	-	-	-	-	-	30	3	-
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia	3	7	8	1	2	12	19	45	24
Dysentery	3	4	5	4	2	4	7	3	1
Erysileplas	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	10	2
Cerebro-spinal meningitis	3	1	1	1	-	1	-	1	-
Malaria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Poliomylitis and polioencephalitis	-	7	4	2	3	18	13	-	-
Encephalitis lethargica	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tuberculosis (all forms)	-	4	2	1	2	21	137	89	10
Measles	32	111	100	90	97	261	35	14	-
Ophthalmia neonatorum	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Enteritis	61	15	7	2	3	-	-	-	-
Pood poisoning	-	-	-	-	-	4	13	14	2
Scabies	-	2	6	2	4	30	43	13	6
Whooping cough	42	47	62	35	36	81	1	-	-
TOTALS	150	205	206	149	161	499	312	196	45

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TABLE 3

Notifiable Disease	Total Cases Notified in each Ward
	StoCharles	Golborne	Norland	Pembri dge	Holland	Earls Court	Queens Gate	Re deliffe	Brompton

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The following table shows the numbers of sanitary notices and summonses served in each ward of the borough in 1949:-

SUMMARY OP VITAL STATISTICS FOR KENSINGTON

CAUSES OP DEATH AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE IN 1949

The new arrangements have proved satisfactory and the following is a summary of the work performed during the year.

Medicinal Baths (Personal Cleansing Station) The record of work done is as follows:-

The following is a summary of other action taken

A summary of the work undertaken by the Council's woman health officer in connection with the care of old people is as follows

SANITARY INSPECTION The following table shows a summary of the inspections, etc., carried out by the sanitary inspectors during the year:-

The following table shows the number of notices issued in respect of nuisances, defects, etc., found during the year

The following is a summary of works completed under the supervision of the sanitary inspectors during the year :-

The post-war new housing schemes being dealt with by the Council are summarised as follows :-

All cases of overcrowding are considered by the special Sub-Committee of the Public Health Committee with a view to deciding what action should be taken. The following are details of the cases dealt with in 1949:-

Inspections

Defects found

The following table shows the nature of the work carried out by the 246 home workers on the register of outworkers during 1949 :-

All premises where food is prepared, stored or exposed for sale for human consumption are frequently inspected and the following is a record of the inspections made by the food inspectors engaged on this work for 1949 :-

During the year particulars of licences granted were as follows

Details of licences granted during 1949 are as follows:- •

The following table shows the number of samples of processed milk taken during the year, together with results of examination:-

The following table shows percentages of milk fats and non-fat solids of the genuine samples taken during each month:-

During the year the following amounts of food were surrendered and condemned as unfit for human consumptions-

The following table shows the number of samples taken during the year for chemical analysis compared with 1948 :-

During 1949, 98 samples of ice cream were taken and submitted to the Methylene Blue Test and the results were as follows:-

The following table shows particulars of notifications received in 1949:- Food poisoning notifications (corrected)

The following table shows an analysis of the 28 notifications of individual cases, setting out the nature of the food suspected or proved to have "been at fault.

The following table shows the age distribution of patients with and without paralysis

Notifications of Poliomyelitis (including Polio-Encephalitis)

The following table shows the number of cases added to and the number removed from, the notification register during the year

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