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Southwark 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

Published
1938
Pages
155
Tables
90

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  • Page 8
    The population of the several divisions of the Borough at each Census since 1861, and also the estimated population for 1936 and 1937 are as follows:—
    Newington.St. George's.St. Saviour's and Christchurch.
  • Page 9
    TABLE 1. Birth-rate for the last Ten Years for the Three Divisions of the Borough as formerly existed.
    Newington.St. George's.St. Saviour's and Christchurch.Whole Borough.[/##3]
    192818.021.119.419.2
    192917.420.117.118.1
    193016.018.616.416.8
    193116.218.816.516.9
    193215.317.716.916.2
    193313.814.615.514.2
    193414.515.616.214.9
    193515.115.111.914.8
    193614.815.313.214.8
    193714.914.912.814.7
  • Page 10
    TABLE 2. Number of Births and Deaths belonging to each Ward, with the Birth and Death Rates, also the Infantile Mortality Rate, 1937.
    WARD.Births.Infantile Mortality.Deaths.
    Males.Females.Total.Birth-rate.Males.Females.Total.Death-rate.
  • Page 11
    The principal localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred are as follows:—
  • Page 12
    TABLE 3 . Deaths belonging to the Sanitary Area, with the Causes of Death at all Ages during 1937.
    Causes of Death.Nett Deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents" whether occurring within or without the District.
    All Ages.0.1.2.5.15.25.35.45.55.65.75.
  • Page 13
    TABLE 4. BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. INFANT MORTALITY, 1937. Nett Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 Year of age.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Under 1 week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 month.4 weeks and under 3 Months3 Months and under 66 Months and under 99 Months and under 12.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
  • Page 14
    TABLE 5. Death Rates for the last Ten Years for the Three Divisions of the Borough as formerly existed.
    Newington.St. George's.Christchurch and St. Saviour's.Whole Borough
  • Page 14
    TABLE 6. DEATHS OF INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE. The deaths of Infants under one year of age to 1,000 births were 64 during the year 1937. The deaths under one year of age to 1,000 births for the last ten years were as follows:—
  • Page 15
    TABLE 7. Births and Deaths Registered in the Sub-Districts of the Borough in 1937.
    First Quarter.Second Quarter.
    Sub-Districts.Births.Deaths.Sub-Districts.Births.Deaths.
    Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.Male.Female.
  • Page 16
    TABLE 8. Showing the number of Deaths that occurred in Public Institutions in the Borough during the year 1937.
    Institution.In 1st Quarter.In 2nd Quarter.In 3rd Quarter.In 4th Quarter.During Year.
  • Page 17
    TABLE 9. VITAL STATISTICS OF SEPARATE LOCALITIES (1933-37).
    Year.St. Mary's Ward.St. Paul's Ward.St. Peter's Ward.St. John's Ward.Trinity Ward.
    Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.DeathsDeaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.Births Registered.Deaths at all ages.Deaths under 1 year.
  • Page 18
    TABLE 10. ZYMOTIC MORTALITY FOR THE SANITARY AREA, 1937. Showing the localities where the deaths occurred.
    Locality .Influenza.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhoea.
  • Page 18
    TABLE 11. Deaths in the Sanitary Area from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the various Wards for 1937.
    WARD OR DISTRICT.Influenza.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhoea.
  • Page 28
    CHILD LIFE PROTECTION. Hereunder will be found the number of foster mothers and foster children in the Borough, together with the work in connection therewith.
  • Page 30
    Sutherland House, Sutherland Square—
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    New Maternity Centre, Villa Street—
  • Page 34 35
    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE CENTRES. Showing the Attendances at the Several Centres and Visits Paid to the homes of Mothers and Children by Health Visitors. TABLE 12.
    St. John 1a.St. Mary 1b.St. Paul 2A.St. Peter 2B.All Saints 3A.Lady Margaret 3B.Cross way 4A.St. Stephen 4B.St. Jude. 5.St. Michael 6A.St. Saviour 6B.St. George 6c.Roman CatholicGuy's 7.Total.
  • Page 36
    HEALTH WORK. The number of visits made by the Health Visitors and other officers of the Health Services Department to houses in connection with Births, and other Health Work during 1937. TABLE 13.
    Original Visits.Revisits.Visits to Ante-Natal Cases.Visits to Post-Natal Cases.Visits to Foster Children.Visits to Cases of Diarrhoea and Sick Children.Attendances at Welfare Centres.Visits where Mothers were found to be out.Special Visits, etc.Puerperal Pyrexia.Total.
    Births.Measles.Ophthalmia NeonatorumBirths.Measles.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
  • Page 37
    TABLE 14. NOTIFIED BIRTHS. 1937.
    Where Born and by Whom Attended.Mothers ConfinedNotified Births.Still-Births.Total Live Births.
  • Page 38
    TABLE 15. Vaccination Officers' Return respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were Registered in 1936.
    Date. 1936.Registration sub-districts comprised in vaccination officers' district.Number of births returned in birth list sheets.Number of these births duly entered in 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 1, successfully vaccinated.Column 2. Insusceptible of vaccination.Column 4. Certificate of conscien- tious objection.Column 5, dead, unvac-cinated.Postponement by medical certificate.Removed to other districts and notified to vaccination officers of the districts.Removal to places unknown, or which cannot be reached, and cases not having been found.Cases remaining or temporarily unaccounted for.Total number of certificates of successful vaccination received during the calendar year 1937.
  • Page 43
    TABLE 16. Summary of Sanitary Works completed under the Public Health Act during the year 1937.
  • Page 44
    The above summonses had reference to the following:—
  • Page 44
    Those proceedings resulted as follows:—
  • Page 45
    TABLE 17. Proceedings taken under the Public Health and other Acts.
    Defendant.Cause of Proceedings.Result.
  • Page 48
    In this connection, the following persons have been removed during the year under review:—
    Name.Age.Institution.
  • Page 49
    Certificates in regard to water supply have been granted in respect of the under-mentioned (new) houses during the year:—
    Premises.Certificates granted to.
  • Page 50
    TABLE 18. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework. 1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
    Premises.Number.
    Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
  • Page 50
    2.—Defects Found.
    Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
    Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
  • Page 51
    TABLE 19. 3.—Home Work.
    Nature of Work.Outworkers' Lists, Section 107.Number of Inspections of Outworkers' Premises.outwork in Unwholesome Premises, S.108.Outwork in Infected Premises, Sections 109-10
    Lists received from Employers.Nos. of Addresses of Outworkers received from other Councils.Nos. of Addresses of Outworkers forwarded to other Councils.Prosecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.Instances.Orders made (S. 110).Prosecutions. (8s. 109-10).
    Twice in the year.Once in the year.Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists.Failing to send lists.
    Lists.OutworkersLists.Outworkers
  • Page 52
    TABLE 20. 4.—Registered Workshops.
    Workshops, Workplaces, etc., on the Register (S. 131) at the end of the year.Number.
  • Page 52
    5.—Other Matters.
    Class.Number.
  • Page 52
    The following defects were discovered, and 11 intimations and 1 statutory notice were served in order to obtain the abatement of the nuisances complained of:—
  • Page 55
    TABLE 21. RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919. Summary showing investigations and inspections made during the year 1937.
  • Page 58
    TABLE 22. Verminous Bedding, etc., Disinfected at the Council's Station during 1937.
    Articles.Disinfected.Destroyed.
  • Page 58
    COLLIER'S RENTS MORTUARY. (Coroners' Court.)
  • Page 65
    BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. Housing Act, 1936—Part IV.
    ROOMS.Number Allowed per room on Table II.Name of Tenant(or subtenant)Numbers of Rooms Occupied.Date.Persons normally sleeping in premises.Equivalent adultsPermitted Number.If overcrowded put +Date for review.
    Number of persons over 10 years of age.Number and ages of persons under 10 years.
    No.Position.Length, ft. ins.Breadth, ft. ins.Floor Area sq. ft.As Married Couples.Other Males.Other Females.Males.Females.
  • Page 71
    Houses in the following localities were inspected and recorded under
  • Page 72
    TABLE 23. HOUSING.
  • Page 73
    TABLE 23.— continued.
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    T ABLE 23.— continued
  • Page 76
    TABLE 24. Sanitary Works completed under the Housing Acts, during the year 1937.
  • Page 79
    The following are the premises and licensees:—
    Situation of Premises.Name of Licensee.
  • Page 79
    The following table shows the number of premises registered and the inspections made:—
    Premises.Registered.Inspections.
  • Page 81
    The following is a summary of the premises under inspection:—
  • Page 81
    The record cards show the following facts:—
    Reconstructed.Improved.Refrigerators
    Cleansed.Installed.
  • Page 85
    CARCASES INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED.
    Cattle, excluding CowsCowsCalvesSheep and LambsPigs
  • Page 88 89
    ANALYSIS OF PORT SANITARY SAMPLES, 1937.
    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents or Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
  • Page 90 91
    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents or Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
  • Page 92 93
    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents or Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
  • Page 94 95
    Sample ofCondition of Can.Condition of Contents or Sample.Report.
    External.Internal.
  • Page 96 97
    TABLE 25. Showing the quantity of foodstuffs examined at the wharves, method of disposal the amount found to be unsound, the Notices served, and the of the unsound portion.
  • Page 98 99
    Foodstuffs. Quantity and Weight examined. Weight found to be unsound. Surrendered by Owner. Notices served.
  • Page 100 101
    Foodstuffs. Quantity and Weight examined. Weight found to be unsound. Surrendered by Owner. Seized by In-spector. Notices served. How unsound portion disposed of.
  • Page 102 103
    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight examined.Weight found to be unsound.Surrendered by Owner.Seized by Inspector.Notices served.How unsound portion disposed of.
    Quantity.Weight.(a) D-tention.(b) It-lease.
  • Page 104 105
    TABLE 26 Showing the quantity of Foodstuffs found unsound throughout the Borough during the year 1937 by the several Inspectors.
    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight found UnsoundSurrendered by Owners.Seized by InspectorRemarks.
    Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.
  • Page 106 107
    Foodstuffs.Quantity and Weight found UnsoundSurrendered by Owners.Seized by Inspector.Remarks.
    Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.Quantity.Weight.
  • Page 108
    TABLE 27. Inspections of Food at Wharves, Markets and other places where food is stored, and the action taken by the officials during the year 1937.
    WARD or DISTRICT.Inspections of Wharves and Warehouses.Inspections of Markets.Inspections of Shops or Street Stalls.Slaughter Houses.Parcels of Food Examined.Parcels of Food Stopped.Parcels of Food Released.Parcels of Food destroyed by consent of owner.Parcels of Food seized by Inspector.Parcels of Food condemned by Magistrate.Summonses taken out.
  • Page 110
    The total number of Licences issued for the sale of Graded Milks were as follows:—
  • Page 110
    INSPECTIONS OF VARIOUS PREMISES. The following inspections have been made during the year:—
  • Page 111
    NUISANCES ABATED IN CONSEQUENCE OF NOTICES.
  • Page 112
    Particulars of Bakehouses at the end of the year 1937:—
    Position.In use.Not in use.Totals.Remarks.
  • Page 114
    NOXIOUS TRADES.
    Situation.Trade.Occupier.Inspections.Remarks.
  • Page 115
    The following is a list of Poisons sold:—
    Kind of Poison Sold.No. of Premises.Remarks.
  • Page 117
    SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS AND OTHER ACTS.
    Name and Address of Vendor.Sample.Result of Analysis.Result of Proceedings.
  • Page 119
    FORMAL SAMPLES.
    Article.Number of Samples taken.Adulterated .
  • Page 120
    Continued from previous page...
    Article.Number of Samples taken.Adulterated.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Article.Number of Samples taken.Adulterated.
  • Page 122
    TABLE 29.
    Article.Number of samples.Adulterated.
  • Page 123
    Continued from previous page...
    ArticleNumber of samples.Adulterated.
  • Page 127
    During the year under review no cases were notified. The number of cases notified during the last five years is as follows:—
  • Page 127
    The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
  • Page 128
    The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
  • Page 129
    SCHICK CLINIC, 1937.
    Age Group.Primary Schick Test.Schick Test after 3 months.
    Number Tested.Reading of Test.Inoculation.Reading of Test.
    Immune.Susceptible.Miscellaneous.1st without Primary S. Test.1st.2nd.3rd.4th.5th.Number Tested.Immune.Susceptible.Miscellaneous.
  • Page 130
    The number of deaths from Measles during the last five years will be found hereunder:—
  • Page 130
    Deaths of infants under two years of age during the last five years were as follows:—
  • Page 131
    The deaths from this disease during the last five years were as follows:—
  • Page 131
    The number of deaths during the last five years, together with a table showing the site of disease, for the period 1937 will be found hereunder:—
  • Page 131
    Deaths from Cancer (1937).
    Site of Disease.Under 16.16—25.25—35.35—45.45—55.55—65.65—75.75 and over.Total.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
  • Page 132
    Twenty-nine cases occurred during the year, as against 26 in 1936. An analysis of the cases will be found hereunder:—
    Notified.Cases treated.Vision unimpaired.Vision impaired.Total Blindness.Deaths.
    At home.Hospital.
  • Page 133
    TABLE 31. NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1937.
    Disease.0-1-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-Males.Females.TotalCases admitted to HospitalTotal Deatns
  • Page 134
    TABLE 32. Bedding, etc., disinfected and destroyed after the occurrence of Infectious Disease during the year 1937.
    Articles.No. Disinfected.No. Destroyed.
  • Page 135
    Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1937, to the 31st December, 1937, in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark.
    Age-periodsNumber of Primary Notifications.Total Notifications on Form A.
    0-11-55-1010-1515-2020-2525-3535-4545-5555-6565 and upw'rd8Total Primary Notifications.
  • Page 136
    New cases of Tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health or Chief (Administrative) Tuberculosis Officer during the period from the 1st January, 1937, to the 31st December, 1937, otherwise than by notification on Form A or Form B under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
    Age Periods0-11-55-1010-1515-2020-2525-3535-451 45-5555-6565 & upwardsTotal Cases
  • Page 137
    DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. TABLE 35. Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from home in Hospitals or other Institutions, 1937.
    0-]-2-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-All Ages.
    Males.Females.Total.
  • Page 138
    TABLE 36. TUBERCULOSIS.
    Age Periods.New Cases.*Deat hs.
    Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.Pulmonary.NonPulmonary.
  • Page 139
    The number of notified cases and deaths for the last five years is as follows:—
    Notified.Deaths.
  • Page 139
    TABLE 37. Notification Register.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
    Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1937, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officerof Health of the Metropolitan Borough6093289371491402891226
    Number of cases removed from the Register(s) during the year by reason inter alia of:—2651554207555130550
    (1) Withdrawal of notification29204932554
    (2) Recovery from the disease523587402565152
    (3) Deaths75411166713129
    (4) Otherwise10959168262147215
  • Page 140
    TABLE 38. The Locality of the Rooms Disinfected after the occurrence of Phthisis.
    No. 1.No. 2.No. 3.No. 4.No. 5.No. 6.No. 7. No. 8.No. 9.Total.
  • Page 144
    The following cases were recommended to the London County Council for Institutional treatment during the year :—
    Adults.Under 15 years.
  • Page 154
    TABLE 39. Return for the year 1937. (A) Return showing the work of the Dispensary (or Dispensaries).
    Diagnosis.Pulmonary.Non-PulmonaryTotal.Grand Total .
    AdultsChildrenAdultsChildrenAdultsChildren
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.