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

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Causes of death at different periods The following table shows the causes of and Table

Code No.	Causes of death	Nett deaths at the subjoined age of " residents " whether occurring within or without the borough
		MALES									Total persons (i.e., incl. table opp.)
		All ages	Under 1 yr.	1 and under 5	5 and under 15	15 and under 25	25 and under 45	45 and under 65	65 and under 75	75 and over

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laf life during the year 1956 1 iges at death during the calendar year 1956:— 2

code No.	Causes of death	Nett deaths at the subjoined ages of "residents" whether occurring within or without the borough
		FEMALES									Total persons (i.e., Incl. table opp.)
		All ages	Under 1 yr.	1 and under 5	5 and under 15	15 and under 25	25 and under 45	45 and under 65	65 and under 75	75 and over

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Deaths under 1 year of age Table 3

Cause of death	Sex	Under 1 day	1_6 days	1 week	2 weeks	3 weeks	Total under 4 wks_	1_2 mths_	3_5 mths_	6_8 mths_	9_11 mths_	Total 1_11 mths_	Total under 1 yr_

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Table 4 Morbidity shown in insurance certificates

Average for period ending	"Lewisham"	"Downham"

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Of the 2,513 deaths analysed by us the social categories were as follow: — Table 5

Social class	I	II	III	IV	V	Total	No information

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In detail, the social class, related to cause of death, was as follows :— Table 6

Code No.	Cause of death	Male						Female
Code No.	Cause of death	I	II	Ill	IV	V	Total	1	II	III	IV	V	Total

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Table 7 Grouped deaths in social class

			Male						Female
			I	II	III	IV		Total	1	II	III	IV	V	Totol

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Table 8

		Social classification					Total	Not classifiable
		I	II	III	IV	V	Total	Not classifiable

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Table 9 Heart and circulation mortality

Year	Deaths from			Total heart and circulation (all ages)	Age group 45-65		Total deaths in borough	Percentage
Year	Coronary diseases	Other heart diseases*	Other circulatory diseases†	Total heart and circulation (all ages)	Total	Coronary diseases	Total deaths in borough	(e)of (h)	(f) of (h)	(g) of (h)
(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)	(g)	(h)	(i)	(j)	(k)

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General statistics from 1901 Table 10

Year	Population	Death rate *	% dying under age 45	% dying under age 65	Birth rate *	Premature birth rate ‡	Maternal death rate †	Stillbirth rate †	Neonatal death rate **	One month to one year death rate (12)-(10) **	Infant mortality rate **	Reproductive wastage rate (9)+ (12)	Pulmonary tuberculosis		Tuberculosis (all forms)
Year	Population	Death rate *	% dying under age 45	% dying under age 65	Birth rate *	Premature birth rate ‡	Maternal death rate †	Stillbirth rate †	Neonatal death rate **	One month to one year death rate (12)-(10) **	Infant mortality rate **	Reproductive wastage rate (9)+ (12)	Notif. rate††	Death rate††	% notif. rate under 15

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Table 10— continued.

Year	Population	Death rate *	% dying under age 45	% dying under age 65	Birth rate *	Premature birth rate ‡	Maternal death rate †	Stillbirth rate †	Neonatal death rate **	One month to one year death rate (12)-(10)**	Infant mortality rate **	Reproductive wastage rate (9)+(12)	Pulmonary tuberculosis		Tuberculosis (all forms)
Year	Population	Death rate *	% dying under age 45	% dying under age 65	Birth rate *	Premature birth rate ‡	Maternal death rate †	Stillbirth rate †	Neonatal death rate **	One month to one year death rate (12)-(10)**	Infant mortality rate **	Reproductive wastage rate (9)+(12)	Notif. rate††	Death rote††	% notif. rate under 15
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)	(13)	(14)	(15)	(16)

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Disinfecting Station Table 11

	West	North	South	Total

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Verminous conditions Table 12

	First cleansing	Second cleansing	Third cleansing

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Scabies Table 12 — continued

	Cases	Contacts	Treatments

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Table 13

Specimens	Number	Remarks

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Details are shown in the following table: — Table 14

Month	Bodies received from Institutions	Others	Post-mortem examinations		Inquests
Month	Bodies received from Institutions	Others	Lewisham residents	Others	Inquests

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Table 15

Location	Base points	Days on which prebait laid	Poison bait taken(ozs.)(Est.)

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me indication of the sunshine, rainfall, etc., during the year. Some of these latter data Heal office, and relate to the nearest station which records.the particular item concerned. 1956 7

June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Average or act. ual (as applic.)

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Average results of the chemical and bacteriological examination of the water supply to the Borough of Lewisham for 1956 parts per million (unless otherwise stated) (a) CHEMICAL Table 18

Description of the sample	No. of samples	Ammoniacal nitrogen	Albuminoid nitrogen	Oxidised nitrogen (nitrate)	Chlorides as CI.	Oxygen abs. from permanganate (4 hrs. at 27°C)	Hardness (total)	Hardness (non. carbonate)	PH value	Sulphates as SO,	Conductivity

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(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL Table 19

	BEFORE CHLORINATION				AFTER CHLORINATION (WATER PASSING INTO SUPPLY)
	No. of samples	Plate count (average per ml.) Colonies counted on agar 37°C. (20.24 hrs.)	Bact. coli test		No. of samples	Plate count (average per ml.) Colonies counted on agar 37°C. (20.24 hrs.)	Bact. coli test
	No. of samples		Percentage samples neg. 100 ml.	Average number per 100 ml.	No. of samples		Percentage samples neg. 100 ml.	Average number per 100 ml.

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Table 20

Reason for inspection	West	North	South	Total

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Summary of notices served Table 21

	West	North	South	Total

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Nuisances remedied Table 22

Nuisance	West	North	South	Total

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Inspections Table 23

Premises	Number on register	Number of
Premises	Number on register	Inspections	Written notices	Occupiers prosecuted

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Cases in which defects were found Table 24

Defects	No. of defects				Prosecutions instituted
	Found	Remedied	Referred
	Found	Remedied	To HM Inspector	By HM Inspector

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Table 25

Properties	Dwellings involved	Present position

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Table 25— continued

Properties	Dwellings involved	Present position

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Closing Orders in respect of part of house (section 12) Table 26

Properties	Part of house	Present position

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Table 26— continued

Properties	Part of house	Present position

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Table 27 HOUSES IN CLEARANCE AREAS AND UNFIT HOUSES ELSEWHERE

A—HOUSES DEMOLISHED	Houses demolished	Displaced
Clearance areas (Housing Act, 1936 and Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954).		Displaced
		Persons	Families

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Table 28

	Dealer's	Supplementary	Total

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Table 29

Period	Samples	Average composition of samples examined Percentage of
Period	Samples	Milk fat	Solids not fat	Water

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Table 30

	Samples	Average percentage composition
	Samples	Fat	Milk solids. not fat	Sucrose	Water

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Table 31

Grading	Samples submitted	%

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Table 32

ARTICLES	Examined			Adulterated
ARTICLES	Informal	Formal	Total	Informal	Formal	Total

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Adulterated samples Table 33

Article	Formal or Informal	Adulteration or irregularity	Action taken or result of proceeding

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Table 34

Diseases	Cases notified
Diseases	1956	1955	1954	1953	1952	1951	1950

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Notifications of infectious diseases in 1956 showing sex and age groups Table 35

Diseases	Under 1		1-		3-		5-		10-		15-		25-		45-		65 plus		Total
Diseases	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F

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Analysis of certain diseases in table 35 into divisional areas— Table 36

Disease	Div. areas	Under 1	1-	3-	5-	10-	15-	25-	45-	65+	Total

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Table 37

	W	N	s	Total

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Table 38

Year (a)	Intimated to Dept. (b)	Removed to hospital (c)	Confirmed (d)	(d) as % age of (b) (e)

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Table 39

Age periods	New cases notified						Deaths
	Respiratory		Non-Respiratory		Totals		Respiratory		Non-Respiratory		Totals
	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F

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Table 40

Division		Sex	0-	1-	2-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65-	75-	Tolal.

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Table 41

Year	Population	New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	Deaths		Death rate from resp. tuberculosis per thousand pop.
Year	Population	New cases notified (all forms) (excluding inward transfers)	Notif. rate per thousand pop.	All forms	Respiratory	Lewisham	County of London

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Tuberculosis — environmental conditions Case papers of patients attending the Lewisham Chest Clinic in 1956 have been analysed in 250 cases with the following results:—

	Cases	%*

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Table 42

Patients	Men	Women	Total

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Table 43

Age at December 31, 1956	Under 1	1	2	3	4	5-9	10-14	Total under 15
Born in year	1956	1955	1954	1953	1952	1951-45	1944-40	Total under 15

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(iii) Vaccination.

Vaccinated during the year (age at date of vaccination)	Under 1	1-4	5-14	15 and over	Total

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PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1936

Nature of Summons	No. of summonses	Total fines			Total costs			Remarks
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS

Nature of Summons	No. of summonses	Total fines			Total costs			Remarks
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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BYELAWS MADE BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL IN CONNECTION WITH THE HANDLING OF FOOD

Nature of summons	No. of summonses	Total fines			Total costs			Remarks
		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS, 1955

Nature of summons	No. of summonses	Total fines			Total costs			Remarks
Various Regulations		£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

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PUBLIC HEALTH (Preservatives, etc. in Food) REGULATIONS, 1925-1948

Nature of summons	No. of summonses	Total fines	Total costs	Remarks
		£ s. d.	£ s. d.

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Causes of death at different periods The following table shows the causes of and Table

laf life during the year 1956 1 iges at death during the calendar year 1956:— 2

Deaths under 1 year of age Table 3

Table 4 Morbidity shown in insurance certificates

Of the 2,513 deaths analysed by us the social categories were as follow: — Table 5

In detail, the social class, related to cause of death, was as follows :— Table 6

Table 7 Grouped deaths in social class

Table 8

Table 9 Heart and circulation mortality

General statistics from 1901 Table 10

Table 10— continued.

Disinfecting Station Table 11

Verminous conditions Table 12

Scabies Table 12 — continued

Table 13

Details are shown in the following table: — Table 14

Table 15

me indication of the sunshine, rainfall, etc., during the year. Some of these latter data Heal office, and relate to the nearest station which records.the particular item concerned. 1956 7

Average results of the chemical and bacteriological examination of the water supply to the Borough of Lewisham for 1956 parts per million (unless otherwise stated) (a) CHEMICAL Table 18

(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL Table 19

Table 20

Summary of notices served Table 21

Nuisances remedied Table 22

Inspections Table 23

Cases in which defects were found Table 24

Table 25

Table 25— continued

Closing Orders in respect of part of house (section 12) Table 26

Table 26— continued

Table 27 HOUSES IN CLEARANCE AREAS AND UNFIT HOUSES ELSEWHERE

Table 28

Table 29

Table 30

Table 31

Table 32

Adulterated samples Table 33

Table 34

Notifications of infectious diseases in 1956 showing sex and age groups Table 35

Analysis of certain diseases in table 35 into divisional areas— Table 36

Table 37

Table 38

Table 39

Table 40

Table 41

Tuberculosis — environmental conditions Case papers of patients attending the Lewisham Chest Clinic in 1956 have been analysed in 250 cases with the following results:—

Table 42

Table 43

(iii) Vaccination.

PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1936

FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS

BYELAWS MADE BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL IN CONNECTION WITH THE HANDLING OF FOOD

FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS, 1955

PUBLIC HEALTH (Preservatives, etc. in Food) REGULATIONS, 1925-1948

TABLES