[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

Tower Hamlets 1970

Published: 1971
Pages: 176
Tables: 83

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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1970
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MARRIAGES The number of marriages solemnised in the borough during the year was 1.515, or 158 more than last year, made up as follows-
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The annual return received from the Venerea] Disease Clinic at the London Hospital shows the new cases attending the clinic during the year were as follows:-

Area of Residence Syphilis' Gonorrhoea Other Conditions Total (1969)
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The following is a summary of the cases dealt with from 1967 - 1970:-

1970 1969 1968 1967
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Ownership of the sites dealt with was as follows:-

Sites requiring action Sites dealt with
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HOSPITAL FACILITIES The undermentioned hospitals are situated within the borough;

No. of Beds.
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LEGISLATION The following acts, orders and regulations affecting the department were made during the year:

Acts of Parliament Date made Date operative
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STAFF CHANGES Appointments and resignations of members of the staff numbered 180 and 155 respectively as follows:-

Appointment s Resignations
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Tower Hamlets children placed in special schools are as follows:-

Handicap No. at No. at
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Handicap No. at Day Schoo1s No. at Boarding Schools
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TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND AGE OF TOWER HAMLETS RESIDENTS - 1970 (Registrar General's Return)

CAUSE OF DEATH ALL AGES AGE GROUP
TOTAL M F -1 1- 5- 15- 25- 35- 45- 55- 65- 75-
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TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS OCCURRING IN THE BOROUGH

Pedestrians Motor Cyclists Pedal Cyclists Other Road Users Total
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TABLE 3 INFANT MORTALITY Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 year (compiled from local death returns)

AGE PERIODS Total* Deaths under 1 year Per Cent of Total
Under 24 hours 1-6 days Weeks Months
1- 2- 3- 1- 4- 7- 10-
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TABLE 4 , INFANT MORTALITY Comparative table showing deaths of infants at various ages under 1 year

Year Under 24 hours lr 6 days 1-4 weeks Total under 4 weeks 1-12 months Total under 1 year Percentage deaths under 4 weeks of total Infant deaths

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COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS TABLE 5

Year	Population	Live Births		Deaths		Deaths under 1 year		Maternal Deaths		Cancer Deaths (all forms)		Tuberculosis Deaths (a11 forms')
		No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*	No.	Rate*

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TABLE 7 DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN THE BOROUGH
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TABLE 8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

Corrected Notifications Removed to Hospital Notified in 1969 Notified in 1968
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TABLE 9 MORBIDITY First Claims for Sickness Benefit The number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E. 1., E. 2., E. 3., and E. 14. were as follows:-

1970 1969 1968 1970 1969 1968
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TABLE 10 VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

Children vaccinated/immunised
Year of birth Others aged total
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Vaccinations/immunisations (all ages) carried out at clinics/general practitioners' surgeries

At Council Clinics By General Practitioners 7o Primary by General Practition-ers.
Primary Reinforcing Primary Reinforcing
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TABLE 11 TUBERCULOSIS - NEW CASES AND DEATHS - 1970 New Cases and Deaths: Primary notifications of 101 pulmonary and 17 non-pulmonary cases were received . 7 other cases came to light via death returns from Registrars. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounted for 12 deaths, there being 5 deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis, including late effects.

-1 1- 2- 5- 10- 15- 20- 25- 35- 45- 55- 65- 75- Total (all ages.
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TABLE 12 TUBERCULOSIS - VARIATIONS IN REGISTER

Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary Total. Cases
Males Females Males Females
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TABLE 13 TUBERCULOSIS - CARE AND AFTER CARE
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TABLE 14 MASS RADIOGRAPHY

Unit 6A Unit 6B Total
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TABLE 15 TUBERCULIN TEST AND R. C. G. VACCINATION

Contacts Schoolchildren and Students Total
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TABLE 16 ANTE AND POST NATAL SERVICES
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TABLE 17 CHILD WELFARE CENTRES
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Table 18 DAY NURSERIES AND CHILD MINDERS

DAY NURSERIES Voluntary Council
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OTHER PREMISES REGISTERED UNDER NURSERIES AND CHILD MINDERS REGULATION ACT, 1948
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table 19 CERVICAL CYTOLOGY

Premises Number Sessions Examinations
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TABLE 20 CHIROPODY

Treated at Clinics Domiciliary Treatment
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TABLE 21 DENTAL TREATMENT FOR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS

Expectant Mothers Children
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table 22 HEALTH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Discussion groups or talks on the following subjects were arranged during the year;

Subject No. Occasions Persons participating
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TABLE 23 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE Attendances at sessions held at clinics in the borough during the year.

Premises New Cases Transfers Old Patients Total Patients Total Visits No. of Sessions
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TABLE 24 HEALTH VISITING

No. Visited No. of Visits
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TABLE 25 PREMATURE BIRTHS

Born in Hospital Born at Home or . in Nursing Home
1970 1969 1968 1967 1970 1969 1968 1967
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TABLE 26 HOME BATHING

Persons serviced during the year: Male 326
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TABLE 27 HOME HELP SERVICE Persons for whom service provided during year;

No. of persons
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TABLE 28 HOME NURSING
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TABLE 29 LAUNDERING FOR AGED AND INCONTINENT
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TABLE 30 RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS

Category No. for whom holiday arranged
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TABLE 31 LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT AND FIREGUARDS Nursing equipment and fireguards loaned, by the Council, free of charge to residents of the borough during the year was as follows:-

No. on loan at 1/1/70 No. loaned during year No. returned during year No. on loan at 31/12/70
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OTHER EQUIPMENT LOANED
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TABLE 32

Category Midwives of the Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine District Nurses Midwives of the London Hospital Total
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TABLE 33

Mentally Ill Psychopathic Subnormal Total
Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16
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MENTAL HEALTH (iv) Patients under Care at 31st December.

Mentally Ill Elderly Mentally Infirm Psychopathic Sub-normal and Severely Sub-normal Total
Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16 Under 16 Over 16

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MENTAL HEALTH (v) Day and Training Centres

Trainees	Adult Training Centre Underwood Road		Industrial Training Centre White Horse Road	Junior Training School St..Judes Road		Special Care Units		Day Centre Pritchard' s Road		Geriatric Unit' Pritchard's Road		T O T A L
	M	F		M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F

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TABLE 36

(a) Administered by Borough Council
Location Area in Acres
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TABLE 36 (cont'd)

(b) Administered by Greater London Council
Location Area in Acres
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TABLE 38

(a) Reason for Examination Number examined
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TABLE 40
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During the year 1,055 samples were submitted for analysis, as follows:-
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TABLE 44

Type of Factory No. on Register Inspections Written Notices

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TABLE 44 (cont'd)

Nature of Work	No. of outworkers in August list	No. Cases of default in sending lists to the Council	No. of prosecutions for failure to supply lists to the Council

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TABLE 45

No. of Summonses Fines Costs
£. s. d. £. s. d.
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TABLE 46

Tower Hamlets Mortuary Hackney Mortuary Total
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TABLE 49

Type of Premises	Registered during year	Total No. of Registered Premises at end of year	Registered Premises receiving general inspections during year	Persons employed

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TABLE 50

Properties inspected Number inspected Number found to be infested by
Rats Mice
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Type of Premises No. Visits or Inspections
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TABLE 56

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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TABLE 56 (cont'd)

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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TABLE 56 (cont'd)

Conference Venue Dates Representatives
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Course Venue Dates Attended by
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Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 57 (cont'd)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 57 (cont'd)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 57 (cont'd)

Course Venue Dates Attended by
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TABLE 58

No. examined Occasions vermin found Percentage
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TABLE 58 (cont'd)
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TABLE 59

Address Clinics and other activities held
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TABLE 59 (cont'd)

Address Clinics and other activities held
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TABLE 59 (cont'd)

Days and Times

	AGE PERIODS									Total* Deaths under 1 year	Per Cent of Total
	Under 24 hours	1-6 days	Weeks			Months
	Under 24 hours	1-6 days	1-	2-	3-	1-	4-	7-	10-

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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1970

MARRIAGES The number of marriages solemnised in the borough during the year was 1.515, or 158 more than last year, made up as follows-

The annual return received from the Venerea] Disease Clinic at the London Hospital shows the new cases attending the clinic during the year were as follows:-

The following is a summary of the cases dealt with from 1967 - 1970:-

Ownership of the sites dealt with was as follows:-

HOSPITAL FACILITIES The undermentioned hospitals are situated within the borough;

LEGISLATION The following acts, orders and regulations affecting the department were made during the year:

STAFF CHANGES Appointments and resignations of members of the staff numbered 180 and 155 respectively as follows:-

Tower Hamlets children placed in special schools are as follows:-

TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE AND AGE OF TOWER HAMLETS RESIDENTS - 1970 (Registrar General's Return)

TABLE 2 SUMMARY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS OCCURRING IN THE BOROUGH

TABLE 3 INFANT MORTALITY Deaths from stated causes at various ages under 1 year (compiled from local death returns)

TABLE 4 , INFANT MORTALITY Comparative table showing deaths of infants at various ages under 1 year

COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS TABLE 5

TABLE 7 DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN THE BOROUGH

TABLE 8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

TABLE 9 MORBIDITY First Claims for Sickness Benefit The number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E. 1., E. 2., E. 3., and E. 14. were as follows:-

TABLE 10 VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION

Vaccinations/immunisations (all ages) carried out at clinics/general practitioners' surgeries

TABLE 12 TUBERCULOSIS - VARIATIONS IN REGISTER

TABLE 13 TUBERCULOSIS - CARE AND AFTER CARE

TABLE 14 MASS RADIOGRAPHY

TABLE 15 TUBERCULIN TEST AND R. C. G. VACCINATION

TABLE 16 ANTE AND POST NATAL SERVICES

TABLE 17 CHILD WELFARE CENTRES

Table 18 DAY NURSERIES AND CHILD MINDERS

OTHER PREMISES REGISTERED UNDER NURSERIES AND CHILD MINDERS REGULATION ACT, 1948

table 19 CERVICAL CYTOLOGY

TABLE 20 CHIROPODY

TABLE 21 DENTAL TREATMENT FOR EXPECTANT AND NURSING MOTHERS

table 22 HEALTH EDUCATION ACTIVITIES Discussion groups or talks on the following subjects were arranged during the year;

TABLE 23 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE Attendances at sessions held at clinics in the borough during the year.

TABLE 24 HEALTH VISITING

TABLE 25 PREMATURE BIRTHS

TABLE 26 HOME BATHING

TABLE 27 HOME HELP SERVICE Persons for whom service provided during year;

TABLE 28 HOME NURSING

TABLE 29 LAUNDERING FOR AGED AND INCONTINENT

TABLE 30 RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS

TABLE 31 LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT AND FIREGUARDS Nursing equipment and fireguards loaned, by the Council, free of charge to residents of the borough during the year was as follows:-

OTHER EQUIPMENT LOANED

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MENTAL HEALTH (iv) Patients under Care at 31st December.

MENTAL HEALTH (v) Day and Training Centres

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During the year 1,055 samples were submitted for analysis, as follows:-

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