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City of Westminster 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

Published
1952
Author
Shinnie, Andrew J.
Pages
50
Tables
47

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47 tables in this report

  • Page 12
    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
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    Births.
    Total.Males.Females.
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    Births Notified—1,217.
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    Deaths.
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    Infantile Mortality.
    Causes of Death.Total.Legitimate.Illegitimate.
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    Infectious Disease.
    Disease.Original Notifications.Removed to Hospital.Re-diagnosed.Corrected Notifications.
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    Deaths, 1951. Causes of Death at Different Periods of Life in the City.
    Causes of Deaths.Years of Age.
    Sex.All Ages.0-11-55-1515- 2525-4545-6565-7575+
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    Deaths, 1951 —continued. Causes of Death at Different Periods of Life in the City—continued.
    Causes of Deaths.Years of Age.
    Sex.All Ages.0-11-55-1515-2525-4545-6565-7575+
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    Bacteriological Examinations.
    Negative.Positive.
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    Tuberculosis.
    Age Periods.New Cases.Deaths.
    Pulmonary.NonPulmonary.Pulmonary.NonPulmonary.
  • Page 25
    Housing Acts, 1936 to 1949.
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    C.—Informal Action in Respect of Parts of Buildings Unfit for Human Habitation.
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    D.—Contraventions of Closing Orders.
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    A Statistical Summary of 20 years Activity. (a) In the 20 years since 1931, 1,532 unfit dwellings as parts of buildings—primarily basements—have been dealt with by formal and informal methods as follows:—
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    (b) Of this total, reconditioning works to secure conformity have been carried out in 862 cases:—
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    (/) In addition, during the same period 19 individual unfit properties were dealt with:—
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    Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
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    House to House Inspection. (by Housing Inspectors). During the year 240 properties, involving 642 individual dwellings were inspected. Of these 240 properties, 173 were wholly residential in character, 19 part residential, 17 business premises and 31 bombed, derelict, etc., buildings.
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    Factories, Workplaces, Shops and Other Premises (other than Food Premises).
    Summary of Inspections.Primary,Re.inspections.
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    Primary.Re.inspections.
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    Types of premises inspected.
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    Notice-Analysis.
    Factories, Power.Factories, Non.powerWorkplaces, Shops, &c.
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    Nuisances and defective etc., conditions found.
    Factories, Power.Factories, Non.powerWorkplaces, . Shops, &c.
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    Summary of Inspections.
    Primary.Re.inspections.
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    Summary of Notices served.Food Shops and other food premises.Catering establishments.
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    Food Shops and Other Food Premises (other than Catering Establishments).
    Primary.Reinspections.
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    Visits for the Purpose of Obtaining Samples and Inspecting Foodstuffs.
    Sampling.Inspection of Food.
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    Notices served.
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    Nuisances and defective conditions found.
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    Catering Establishments.
    Analysis of Inspections.Primary.Re.inspections.
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    Samples Purchased under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Showing Results of Analysis for the Year 1951.
    Articles of Food.Number of Samples Purchased.Adulterated.Genuine.
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    Articles of Food.Number of Samples Purchased.Adulterated.Genuine.
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    Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.
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    1949, and Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949. The following are particulars of licences granted during 1951 to dealers in respect of the sale of milk under prescribed or special designations:—
    Principal Licence.Supplementary Licence.
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    Unsound Food. tde following table shows tde amount, and metdod o' disposal, of food condemned by tde inspectors as unfit for human consumption during tde year 1951:—
    Articles.Amount Destroyed.Amount Salvaged.Total.
    TonsCwtLb.TonsCwtLb.TonsCwtLb.
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    Rat and Mice Repression.
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    The following action was taken during the year in this connection:—
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    Noise Nuisance.
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    The following tables give the results of the monthly analysis ot the impurities collected in the deposit gauges. Deposit Gauges.
    Month.Monthly Deposits of Impurities—Tons per square mile.
    Mayfair.Pimlico.Charing Cross.
    Total Solids.Dissolved.Undissolved.Total Solids.Dissolved.Undissolved.Total Solids.Dissolved.Undissolved.
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    tables indicate the daily absorption of sulphur due to active sulphurous gases in the atmosphere.
    MayfairPimlico.Charing Cross.
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    Observations were continued throughout the year, and the following table summarises the action taken in mitigation of smoke nuisances:—
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    Legal Proceedings.
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    Analysis.
    Dwellings. Public Health (London) Act, 1936. Failure to abate a Nuisance. AbateFines.Costs.
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    Disinfection and Disinfestation.
    Rooms.Articles.Articles Destroyed.Articles Washed.Vehicles.Books.
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    Treatments.
    Men.Women.Children (under school age).Children (School).Articles.
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    During the year 47 burials were undertaken by the City Council in its cemetery at Hanwell, the requests for such burials being received from the following sources :—
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    Coroner's Court and Mortuary. During 1951 344 bodies were received in the Mortuary on Coroner's Warrants, etc. Five bodies were admitted to await burial.
    Number of Cases.