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  The following table gives the adjusted Kensington birth and death rates compared with the provisional rates for London and for England and Wales for the year 1960:-

  	Kensington adjusted	London	England and Wales

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  Infant Death Rate,. This rate for 1960 was 20.8, a decrease compared with the rate for the previous year of 4.0. The provisional rate for the County of London was 21.6 and for England and Wales was 21.7. The following table shows the rates for the last five years:-

  Year	Kensington	London	England and Wales

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  Number of deaths of babies under one week of age

  Year	Age in days at death						Total	No. of deaths due to prematurity
  	1 or under	2	3	4	5	6

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  The following table shows the trend in these diseases since the end of the war:-

  Year	England and Wales				Kensington
  	Pulmonary Tuberculosis		Cancer of the lung		Pulmonary Tuberculosis		Cancer of the lung
  	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate	Deaths	Rate

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  SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR KENSINGTON

  Description	1960	1959	1958		1957		1956	1955		1954	1953

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  CAUSES OF DEATH AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE IN 1960

  Cause of death	All Ages	Under 1 yr	1 yr and under5	5 yrs and under 45	45 yrsand under65	65 yrsand over

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  MEDICINAL BATHS (Personal Cleansing Station) The reCord of work done during 1960 is as follows:-

  Description	Scabies		Vermin		Impetigo		Other Conditions
  	Persons	Sleansings	Persons	Cleansings	Persons	Cleansings	Persons	Cleansings

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  The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food requested a report for the twelve months ended 31st December, 1960 in the following form:- Prevalence of Rats and Mice

  	Type of Property
  	Local Authority	Dwelling Houses	All other (including Business & Industrial)	Total

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  Inspections of the registered premises were made during the year, and 5 samples of rag flock and other fillings were taken for analysis. The results were satisfactory.

  Description		No. of samples taken

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  Details of persons X-rayed by the Unit during surveys in Kensington in 1960 are as follows:-

  Organised Groups	No. X-rayed

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  The Council adopted the following programme:-

  Smoke Control Area	Boundaries		Preliminary Survey	Detailed Survey & Order made	Order operative

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  Smoke Control Area		Boundaries			Preliminary Survey		Detailed Survey and Order made		Order operative

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  The following tables set out details of the results obtained in Kensington during 1960:- A . Deosit gauses

  Month 1960.	Days Exposed	Rainfall (ins.)	Total deposits for period in tons per square mile.			Deposits per day in tons per square mile (average)
  			Soluble	Insoluble	Total	Soluble	Insoluble	Total

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  South Kensington (Pembroke Road)

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  B. Estimation of atmospheric sulphur Milligrams of sulphur trioxide per dav

  Month 1960	Days exposed	North Kensington	South Kensington

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  C. Readings taken from the two monthly stations in Kensington have been taken for seven years and the following table compares the annual resultss-

  Year	No. ofdaysexposed	Total weight of dopositedmatter in tonsper square mile		Daily average ofsulphur in milligramsof sulphur trioxide
  		NorthKensington	SouthKensington	NorthKensington	SouthKensington

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  D. Measurement of smoke and sulphur by the volumetric method.

  1960	Volumetric smoke Concentration of smoke in milligrams per 100 cubic metres			Volumetric sulphur Concentration of sulphur in parts per million volumes of air Average daily values ats-
  	Average daily values at:-
  	Public Health Department	N. Kensington Public Library	S. Kensington Welfare Centre	Public Health Department

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  The following statement shows the progress of the servioe and financial effect since the inception of the schemes-

  Peroid	NumberofMeals	GrossCost	Receiptsfrom oldpeople	SubsidyfromL.C.C	GrantfromR.B.K.	NetCost

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  The following table shows a summary of the inspections, etc. carried, out by the public health inspectors and their assistants during the year:-

  Public Health (London) Act, 1936

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

  Public Health (London) Act, 1936

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  PART I - Applications for Certificates of Disrepair

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  The following table gives details of the clearance areas declared by the Council since 1950, when slum clearance work under the Housing Acts was recommenced, up to the end of the year:-

  Name of Area	Date of Declaration	No. of houses	No. of persons displaced

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  To be developed by the London County Council:

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  To be developed by the Council:

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  Applications for improvement (discretionary) grants received and dealt with during 1960 sire summarised as follows:-

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  Part 1 of the Act 1-INSPECTIONS for purposes of provisions as to health (including inspections made by public health inspectors)

  Number of
  Premises(1)	No. on Register(2)	Inspections(3)	Written notices(4)	Occupiers prosecuted(5)

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  2 - Cases in which DEFECTS were found (If defects are discovered at the premises on two, three or more separate occasions they should be reckoned as two, three or more "cases")

  Number of cases in which defects were
  Particulars(1)	Found(2)	Remedied(3)	Referred		No. of cases inwhich prosecut-ions were instituted(6)
  			To H.M.Inspector(4)	By H.M. Inspector(5)

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  Part VIII of the Act Outwork (Sections 110 and 111)

  (l) Nature of Work	Section 110			Section 111
  	No. of Outworkersin August lists (2)required by Sec. 110(1) (c)	No. of cases of default in sending lists to the Council	No. of prosecut-(4) ions for failure to supply lists	No. of instances (5) of work in unwholesome premises	(6) Notices served	(7) Prosecutions

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  The following table gives a summary of the factories on the Council's register at the end of the year, indicating the types of business carried on, whether or not mechanical power is used, and where situated, ioeo North or South Kensington:-

  Factory - business	North Kensington		South Kensington
  	Mech.	N-M.	Mech.	N-M.

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  DETAILS OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TAKEN UNDER FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS IN 1960 As requested by Ministry of Health Circular 22/58.

  Date of hearing	Offence	Regulations	Result
  			Fined	Costs awarded to Council

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  Details of licences granted under the 1949/53 regulations during 1960 are as follows:-

  	Principal	Supplementary

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  The following table shows the number of samples of processed nilk taken during the year, together with results of examinations

  Designation	No. of samples	Methylene blue test		Phosphatase test		Turbidity test
  		Passed	Failed	Passed	Failed	Passed	Failed

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

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

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  Food	Tons	Cwt.	Qrs.	Lb.

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  The following table shows the number of samples (16 ice cream and 2 dairy ice cream) taken during 1960 for chemical analysis compared with those taken in the previous year:-

  	1959	1960

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  During the year 23 samples of ice cream were also taken and submitted to the methylene blue test. The results are as follows:-

  Grade	No. of samples

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  The following table shows the total count of the 58 samples examined:-

  Sample	Total Viable Count per gram				Total Samples
  	50,000	+50,000/200,000	+200,000/ 250,000	+250,000

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  Examinations were also made in respect of Bacteria Coli, the results being as follows:-

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  In order to show some perspective in reviewing the incidence of puerperal pyrexia (defined as any febrile condition occurring in a woman in whom a temperature of 100.4°F. or more has occurred within fourteen days after childbirth or miscarriage), the following table gives an analysis of the causes of pyrexia in the notified cases:-

  Cause		No. of cases

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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		NonRespiratory		Total
  	M	F	M	F

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  In my Annual Report for 1951, attention was drawn to what appeared to be a disturbing trend in the incidence of tuberculosis amongst immigrants. Since 1952, a more detailed investigation of this problem has taken place and the following table sets out the information found in 1960:-

  Country of origin	Period (in years) between entry to United Kingdom and notification of disease									Total
  	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9

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  Residential Particulars of other cases notified during the year:-

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  A more accurate investigation in the following years indicated that, of the new cases and "inward transfers" reported in the borough, the proportions who were immigrants contracting the disease in the first ten years of arrival, were as follow:-

  Year	Proportion
  	per cent.

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  TABLE 1

  Notifiable disease	Number of cases notified
  	1960	1959	1958	1957	1956	1955	1954	1953

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  +Notifiable only in children under the age of 5. NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from above table. TABLE 2

  Notifiable disease	Number of Cases Notified in 1960 Age Groups in Years
  	Under 1	1 to 2	3 to 4	5 to 9	10 to 14	15 to 24	25 & over

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  TABLE 3

  Notifiable disease	Total cases notified in each Ward in 1960
  	St.Charles	Golborne	Norland	Pembridge	Holland	Earls Court	Queens Gate	Redcliffe	Brompton

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  PARTICULARS OF THE STAFF OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE END OF 1960 (As requested by Ministry of Health Circulars l/54 and 28/54)

  Medical Officer of Health	Year of Appointment

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  Administrative and Clerical Staff

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  Public Health Inspectors

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  Student Public Health Inspectors

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  Women Health Officers

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  Other Officers