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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Children.
| Classification | Quiescent | Not quiescent | Died in institution | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Years | Years | Years | |||||||||
| 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | |
| A. Number | 114 | 159 | 102 | 38 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 155 | 188 | 126 |
| Percentage | 73.6 | 84.6 | 81.0 | 24.5 | 13.8 | 15.1 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| B1. Number | 5 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 7 | - | 1 | - | 7 | 19 | 22 |
| Percentage | 71.4 | 52.6 | 68.2 | 28.6 | 42.1 | 31.8 | - | 5.3 | - | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| B2. Number | - | 4 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 14 | 11 | 8 |
| Percentage | - | 36.4 | 37.5 | 92.9 | 63.6 | 50.0 | 7.1 | - | 12.5 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| B3. Number | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 20 | 20 | 11 |
| Percentage | - | - | - | 10.0 | 15.0 | 27.3 | 90.0 | 85.0 | 72.7 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Total Pulmonary | 119 | 173 | 120 | 55 | 44 | 33 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 196 | 238 | 167 |
| Percentage | 60.7 | 72.7 | 71.8 | 28.1 | 18.5 | 19.8 | 11.2 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Non-pulmonary | 359 | 354 | 285 | 44 | 52 | 48 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 419 | 419 | 339 |
| Percentage | 85.7 | 84.5 | 84.1 | 10.5 | 12.4 | 14.1 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Grand total | 478 | 527 | 405 | 99 | 96 | 81 | 38 | 34 | 20 | 615 | 657 | 506 |
| Percentage | 77.7 | 80.2 | 80.0 | 16.1 | 14.6 | 16.0 | 6.2 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Cases sent to the Papworth village settlement, Cambridge, and Preston Hall
colony, Aylesford, Kent, are carefully selected, having regard to the special facilities
afforded at these institutions for the employment of patients in the industries, and
possible settlement. In addition to the patients accepted as permanent settlers at
the village settlements there are a certain number of patients who become capable
of work of value to the establishment, but who have little or no prospect of becoming
full settlers. For these a weekly partial maintenance fee of from 10s. (occasionally
even lower) to 20s. is paid, and such patients are regarded as continuing to receive
residential treatment under the tuberculosis scheme.
Papworth
and Preston
Hall village
settlements.
The average numbers of patients under the scheme at Papworth and Preston
Hall, respectively, during each of the past nine years are shown below:—
Table 48.
| 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Papworth | 9 | 16 | 33 | 61 | 90 | 109 | 118 | 140 | 136 |
| Preston Hall | 13 | 13 | 10 | 53 | 84 | 89 | 113 | 150 | 173 |
The youths between 14 and 18 years of age who are sent to Burrow Hill colony
for treatment, combined with training either for clerical work or gardening, are
retained in the first instance for 12 months. In suitable cases the Council has
granted a second year where there are definite indications that prolonged residence
is likely to be of special benefit to the boys both as regards health and fitness for
employment. The course of instruction is approved both by the Ministry of Agriculture
and the Board of Education. During 1936, 29 youths were discharged from the
colony. Of this number 10 completed a two-years' course of training. The
instruction given permits the youths to continue their general education during
their period of residence. The high standard of the theoretical instruction in
gardening is shown by the success attained by students who have studied for the
examinations of the Royal Horticultural Society and been awarded the Society's
certificate. The clerical course provides for skilled tuition in shorthand, typewriting,
bookkeeping and business methods in addition to a sound general education.
The students are prepared for the examinations set by Pitman's Institute for
shorthand and by the Royal Society of Arts for other subjects. The percentage
of passes at these examinations is high.
In conjunction with this scheme, there is an arrangement whereby selected
youths who have taken the gardening course are offered employment in the parks