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

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The following table sets out the percentage vaccination state, within the City Council area of children born in 1965; the equivalent national figures are also shown:

	Children born in 1965			Smallpox (Children under 2) (4)
	Whooping Cough (1)	Diphtheria (2)	Poliomyelitis (3)	Smallpox (Children under 2) (4)

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LIST OF STATISTICAL TABLES

Table	Title

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Table 1.—Deaths According to Age-Group and Sex

Code No.	CAUSE OF DEATH	Net Deaths at the Sub-joined Ages of Residents (Male and Female) whether occurring within or without the City
		All Ages		Under 1 year		1 and under 5		5 and under 15		15 and under 25		25 and under 45		45 and under 65		65 and upwards
		M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 2.—Infant Mortality—According to Cause, Age-Group and Sex

CAUSE OF DEATH	Under 1 week		1 and under 2 weeks		2 and under 4 weeks		1 and under 3 months		3 and under 6 months		6 and under 9 months		9 and under 12 months		Total
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 3.—Maternal Mortality

Age	Cause of death

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Table 4.—Notification of Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases

Numbers originally notified Total (All Ages)	Scarlet fever		Whooping cough		Acute poliomyelitis				Measles (excluding rubella)		Diphtheria		Dysentery		Meningococcal infection
	Scarlet fever		Whooping cough		Paralytic		Nonparalytic		Measles (excluding rubella)		Diphtheria		Dysentery		Meningococcal infection
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 5.—Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths

At ages— years	NEW CASES				DEATHS
	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 6.—Puerperal Pyrexia: Analysis of Causes

Cause	Number of cases

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Table 7.—Specimens Submitted to the Public Health Laboratory

Nature of Specimen	Number Examined	Positive Findings

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Table 8.—Night and out of office hours emergency service— Analysis of calls made to Duty Officers

Month 1966	Mental Welfare		Midwives		Welfare Department		Children's Department		P.H.I.		Miscellaneous		Total
Month 1966	W.	K.	W.	K.	W.	K.	W.	K.	W.	K.	W.	K.	W.	K.

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Table 9.—Dwelling Houses-Reason for Initial Inspection

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Table 10.—Dwelling Houses-Nuisances and Unsatisfactory Conditions Found and Remedied

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Table 11.—Summary of Visits by Public Health Inspectors

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Table 12—Statutory Notices Served

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Table 13.—Rodent Control

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Table 14.—Chemical Examination of Water Supplied to City of Westminster—Average Results Milligrammes per Litre (unless otherwise stated)

Analysis data	Source of Supply
Analysis data	Stoke Newington	All Thames derived

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Table 15.—Bacteriological Examination of Water Supplied to City of Westminster—Average Results after Treatment

Source of supply	Number of samples	Agar plate count per ml.		Coliform count	E.coli count
Source of supply	Number of samples	20-24 hours 37 °C.	3 days at 22 °C.	Per cent, samples negative in 100 ml.	Per cent, samples negative in 100 ml.

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Table 16.—Summary of visits by Housing Act Inspectors

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Table 17.—Summary of Work Carried Out by Public Health Inspectors under Housing Acts 1961-1964

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Table 18.—Unfit Premises

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Table 19.—Known Cases of Overcrowding

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Table 20.—Certificates of Disrepair

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Table 21.—Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963

Category of Premises	Number Registered in 1966	Total Number Registered at 31st December, 1966	Number of Registered Premises receiving a general inspection during the year

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Table 22.—Factories: Defects

Particulars	Number of cases in which defects were found				Number of cases in which prosecutions were instituted
	Found	Remedied	Refe	rred
			To H.M. Inspector	By H.M. Inspector

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Table 23.—Factories : Inspection for Purposes of Provisions as to Health

Premises	Number on Register	Number of
Premises	Number on Register	Inspections	Written notices	Occupiers prosecuted
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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Table 24.—Outwork

Nature of work	Section 133			Section 134
	Number of out-workers in August list required by Section 133 (1) (c)	Number of cases of default in sending lists to the Council	Number of prosecutions for failure to supply lists	Number of instances of work in unwholesome premises	Notices served	Prosecutions

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Table 25.—Estimated Percentage of Compliance of Premises in Westminster with Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960 in relation to (a) Regulation 16— Washing Facilities for the use of Staff, and (b) Regulation 19—Provision of Sinks for Cleansing of Equipment and Food Preparation

Type of Premises to which Sections 16 and 19 apply	Number	Estimated percentage of compliance with Regulation 16	Estimated percentage of compliance with Regulation 19

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Table 26.—Premises Registered for Preserving Food, or Manufacture, Storage or Sale of of Ice Cream

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Table 27.—Food Poisoning Investigation

	General Outbreaks		Family 0	utbreaks	Sporadic Cases	Total	Total
	Number of separate outbreaks	Number of cases notified or ascertained	Number of separate outbreaks	Number of cases notified or ascertained	Notified or ascertained	Number of outbreaks and sporadic cases Columns (1+3+5)	Number of cases Columns (2+4+5)

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Table 28.—Analyses for Pesticides in Food

Description	Country of origin	Vaporiser with open foods	D.D.T. p.p.m.	Other Organo-chlorine Compounds p.p.m.	Organo-phosphorus Compounds p.p.m. (as P)	Metals p.p.m.

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Table 29.—Analysis of Legal Proceedings

	Fines	Costs

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Table 30.—Coroner's Court and Mortuary

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Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966

	MONDAY		TUESDAY		WEDNESDAY		THURSDAY		FRIDAY
	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M-	P.M.

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Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)

	MONDAY		TUESDAY		WEDNESDAY		THURSDAY		FRIDAY
	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.

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Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)

	MONDAY		TUESDAY		WEDNESDAY		THURSDAY		FRIDAY
	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.	A.M.	P.M.

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Table 32.—Clinic Services Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics

Number of Women Attended		Number of Sessions held by		Total Attendances
For Ante-natal Examination (1)	For Post-natal Examination (2)	Medical Officers (3)	Midwives (4)	Medical Officer Sessions (5)	Midwives Sessions (6)

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Table 33.—Mothercraft and Ante-Natal Exercises

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Table 34.—Child Welfare Centres

Number of Children who attended during the year				Total number of sessions	Total number of attendances	Total medical examinations	Number of Children on "at risk" register at end of year
Born in 1966	Born in 1965	Born in 1961-4	Total	Total number of sessions	Total number of attendances	Total medical examinations	Number of Children on "at risk" register at end of year

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Table 35.—Health Visiting

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Table 36.—Vaccination of Persons under age 16 completed during 1966 at Welfare Centres and by General Practioners TABLE A.—Completed Primary Courses—Number of persons under age 16

Type of Vaccine or Dose	Year of Birth					Others under age 16	Total	Total Completed
Type of Vaccine or Dose	1966	1965	1964	1963	1959-62	Others under age 16	Total	At Clinics	By G.P.s

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TABLE B—Reinforcing Doses- —Number of Persons under age 16

	1966	1965	1964	1963		Others under age 16	Total	Total Completed
	1966	1965	1964	1963	1959-62	Others under age 16	Total	At Clinics	By G.P.s

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Table 37.—Smallpox Vaccination of Persons aged under 16 during 1966

Age at date of Vaccination	No. Vaccinated	No. Revaccinated

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Table 38.—Home Nursing

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Table 39.—Domiciliary Midwifery

Domiciliary Midwives employed by	Administrative and Supervisory Staff			Domiciliary Midwives
Domiciliary Midwives employed by	Whole-time (1)	Part time (2)	Whole-time equivalent of (2) (3)	Whole-time (4)	Part-time (5)	Whole-time equivalent of (5) (6)

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DELIVERIES ATTENDED BY DOMICILIARY MIDWIVES DURING 1966

Number of Domiciliary Confinements attended by Midwives under N.H.S. arrangements			Number of cases delivered in hospitals and other institutions but discharged and attended by Domiciliary Midwives before tenth day (4)
Doctor not booked (1)	Doctor booked (2)	Total (3)

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Table 40.—Notification of Congenital Defects

	1964	1965	1966

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Table 41.—Chiropody Service A. Number of persons treated during the 3 months from 1 st October to 31 st December 1966 (+)

	By City Council	By City of Westminster Old People's Welfare Association	Total

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B. Number of treatments given during the 3 months from 1 st October to 31 st December, 1966. (+)

	By City Council	By City of Westminster Old People's Welfare Association	Total

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Table 42.—Home Help Service

A. Applications received during year
Area	Aged 65 and Over	Aged under 65
Area	Aged 65 and Over	T.B.	Chronic Sick	Mentally Disordered	Maternity	Others	Total

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Table 43.—Mental Health Service—Number of Patients referred to City Council during year ended 31st December, 1966

	Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16 i		16 and over		Total
Referred by	Mentally III				Subnormal				Severely subnormal
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 44.—Number of Patients for whom Hospital Admissions were arranged

SECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH ACT

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Table 45.—Mental Health Service—Numbers of Cases in Community Care at end of year

	Mentally III				Subnormal				Severely subnormal				Grand Total
	Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16		16 and over		Grand Total
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 46.—Number of Patients admitted for Temporary Residential Care during the year (e.g. to Relieve the Family)

Number of admissions	Mentally III				Subnormal				Severely subnormal				Grand Total
	Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16		16 and over		Under age 16		16 and over		Grand Total
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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Table 47 THE TERRACE DAY CENTRE (Day Centre for the Mentally III, 1, St. Mary's Terrace, W.2.)

	November 1966	December 1966	January 1967	February 1967	March 1967

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Table 48.—Venereal Diseases Cases treated in Westminster — 1st January-31st December, 1966.

Hospital	M.	F.	Total

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Table 49.—School Health

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A. Contacts

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B. School Children and Students

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Table 51.—Dental Services for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 Part A. Attendances and Treatment.

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Part B. Prosthetics

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Part C. Anaesthetics

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Part D. Inspections

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Part E. Sessions

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Table 52.—School Dental Service Statistics, 1966

NUMBER OF SESSIONS
Inspection	Ordinary treatment	Anaesthetic

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INSPECTIONS

	First inspection at school	First inspection at clinic	Percentage found to require treatment

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TREATMENT SESSIONS

	New cases given appointments	Attendances

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FILLINGS AND EXTRACTIONS

	Permanent teeth	Temporary teeth

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Table 53.—Tuberculosis—Care and After Care

	Paddington Chest Clinic	Marylebone Chest Clinic	Westminster Hospital Chest Clinic

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The following table sets out the percentage vaccination state, within the City Council area of children born in 1965; the equivalent national figures are also shown:

LIST OF STATISTICAL TABLES

Table 1.—Deaths According to Age-Group and Sex

Table 2.—Infant Mortality—According to Cause, Age-Group and Sex

Table 3.—Maternal Mortality

Table 4.—Notification of Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases

Table 5.—Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths

Table 6.—Puerperal Pyrexia: Analysis of Causes

Table 7.—Specimens Submitted to the Public Health Laboratory

Table 8.—Night and out of office hours emergency service— Analysis of calls made to Duty Officers

Table 9.—Dwelling Houses-Reason for Initial Inspection

Table 10.—Dwelling Houses-Nuisances and Unsatisfactory Conditions Found and Remedied

Table 11.—Summary of Visits by Public Health Inspectors

Table 12—Statutory Notices Served

Table 13.—Rodent Control

Table 14.—Chemical Examination of Water Supplied to City of Westminster—Average Results Milligrammes per Litre (unless otherwise stated)

Table 15.—Bacteriological Examination of Water Supplied to City of Westminster—Average Results after Treatment

Table 16.—Summary of visits by Housing Act Inspectors

Table 17.—Summary of Work Carried Out by Public Health Inspectors under Housing Acts 1961-1964

Table 18.—Unfit Premises

Table 19.—Known Cases of Overcrowding

Table 20.—Certificates of Disrepair

Table 21.—Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963

Table 22.—Factories: Defects

Table 23.—Factories : Inspection for Purposes of Provisions as to Health

Table 24.—Outwork

Table 25.—Estimated Percentage of Compliance of Premises in Westminster with Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960 in relation to (a) Regulation 16— Washing Facilities for the use of Staff, and (b) Regulation 19—Provision of Sinks for Cleansing of Equipment and Food Preparation

Table 26.—Premises Registered for Preserving Food, or Manufacture, Storage or Sale of of Ice Cream

Table 27.—Food Poisoning Investigation

Table 28.—Analyses for Pesticides in Food

Table 29.—Analysis of Legal Proceedings

Table 30.—Coroner's Court and Mortuary

Table 31.—Maternal &amp; Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966

Table 31.—Maternal &amp; Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)

Table 31.—Maternal &amp; Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)

Table 32.—Clinic Services Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics

Table 33.—Mothercraft and Ante-Natal Exercises

Table 34.—Child Welfare Centres

Table 35.—Health Visiting

Table 36.—Vaccination of Persons under age 16 completed during 1966 at Welfare Centres and by General Practioners TABLE A.—Completed Primary Courses—Number of persons under age 16

TABLE B—Reinforcing Doses- —Number of Persons under age 16

Table 37.—Smallpox Vaccination of Persons aged under 16 during 1966

Table 38.—Home Nursing

Table 39.—Domiciliary Midwifery

DELIVERIES ATTENDED BY DOMICILIARY MIDWIVES DURING 1966

Table 40.—Notification of Congenital Defects

Table 41.—Chiropody Service A. Number of persons treated during the 3 months from 1 st October to 31 st December 1966 (+)

B. Number of treatments given during the 3 months from 1 st October to 31 st December, 1966. (+)

Table 42.—Home Help Service

Table 43.—Mental Health Service—Number of Patients referred to City Council during year ended 31st December, 1966

Table 44.—Number of Patients for whom Hospital Admissions were arranged

Table 45.—Mental Health Service—Numbers of Cases in Community Care at end of year

Table 46.—Number of Patients admitted for Temporary Residential Care during the year (e.g. to Relieve the Family)

Table 47 THE TERRACE DAY CENTRE (Day Centre for the Mentally III, 1, St. Mary's Terrace, W.2.)

Table 48.—Venereal Diseases Cases treated in Westminster — 1st January-31st December, 1966.

Table 49.—School Health

A. Contacts

B. School Children and Students

Table 51.—Dental Services for Expectant and Nursing Mothers and Children under 5 Part A. Attendances and Treatment.

Part B. Prosthetics

Part C. Anaesthetics

Part D. Inspections

Part E. Sessions

Table 52.—School Dental Service Statistics, 1966

INSPECTIONS

TREATMENT SESSIONS

FILLINGS AND EXTRACTIONS

Table 53.—Tuberculosis—Care and After Care

Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966

Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)

Table 31.—Maternal & Child Welfare Centres—Sessions held as at December 1966—(continued)