Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 |
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Age last birthday January, 1952 | Net decrease | Age last birthday January, 1953 |
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Age Group | England and Wales | London A.C. | Excess (+) or defect (—) London A.C. over England and Wales |
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Year | London A.C. | England and Wales |
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Age and Sex | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Year | London | England and Wales | Year | London | England and Wales |
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Cause | No. of deaths | Per cent, total |
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Year | Live births and stillbirths | Deaths in pregnancy or child-birth excluding abortion | Post-abortion deaths | Notification of puerperal pyrexia |
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Cause of death | Post-abortion | Other pregnancy and child birth | Total |
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Deaths | Rate per 1,000 population |
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Age | Males | Females |
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Year | Influenza deaths | Year | Influenza deaths |
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Age | Deaths | Notifications | Deaths as percentage of notifications |
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Number of cases | Domiciliary confinements | Institutional confinements | Total |
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Notified during the year | 47 | 138 | 185. |
Year | 0-4 | 5-14 | 15-44 | Total | Rate per 1,000 living 0.44 |
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Source of sample | Designation | Samples | Percentage positive of completed samples | ||||
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Total | Positive | Incomplete | Negative | ||||
1952 | 1951 |
Metropolitan Boroughs arranged in divisional order | Estimated home population mid 1951 | Metropolitan Boroughs arranged in divisional order | Estimated home population mid 1951 |
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Property | Interest obtained | Service |
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Ante-natal | Post-natal |
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Year | Post-natal—contd. | Special breast feeding | Educational | |||||
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Attendances | ||||||||
First | Total | |||||||
At post-natal clinics | At combined ante- and post-natal clinics | At post-natal clinics | At combined ante- and post-natal clinics | Sessions per month | Total attendances | Sessions per month | Total attendances |
Year | Clinics at end of year (including toddlers) | Sessions per month | Attendances | Percentage of infants attending a centre at least once in the first year of life | ||||
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Under | 1 year | Over 1 year | Special toddlers | |||||
First | Total | First | Total |
Age group | L.C.C. | Voluntary | Total |
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At 31st | December |
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Year | Maternity nursing cases | Midwifery cases | Grand total | ||||||
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L.C.C. | Hospital | Association | Total | L.C.C. | Hospital | Association | Total |
Patients attended by | Maternal deaths | Still-births | Neo-natal deaths |
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Removed | Remained |
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Confinements attended by | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Administered by | As midwives | As maternity nurses | ||
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1951 | 1952 | 1951 | 1952 |
1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Midwifes | Maternity nurses |
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1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1948 | 1952 |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Day | nurseries |
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Number | Percentage of total |
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Number | Percentage of total |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Maternity | Tuberculosis | Other | Total |
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Prophylaxis | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Age at date of vaccination | Under 1 year | 1 to 4 years | 5 to 14 years | 15 or over | Total |
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Vaccinations | 23,106 | 3,300 | 1,025 | 2,002 | 29,433 |
(19,700) | (8,614) | (2,712) | (4,444) | (35,470) | |
Re-vaccinations | 61 | 252 | 804 | 7,230 | 8,347 |
(35) | (254) | (1,330) | (15,641) | (17,260) |
Tear | Accident Section | General Section | Total | |||||||
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Patients | Non-patient carrying journeys | Total journeys (calls) | Mileage | Patients | Journeys | Mileage | Patients | Journeys | Mileage |
Tear | City of London Police | Home Service Ambulance | Hospital Car Service | West Ham C.B.C. | Total | |||||
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Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage |
Tear | Total Emergency Work | Total General Section Work | Grand Total | |||
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Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage |
1951 | 1952 |
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Establishment | Notified case | Children | Adults | ||||
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Tuberculin tested | Positive result | X-rayed | Abnormal cases | X-rayed | Abnormal cases |
Regional Hospital Board unit | Metropolitan boroughs visited during 1952 | Total number X-rayed during year (a) | Diagnostic classification | ||||||||
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Active | Inactive | ||||||||||
Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Rate per 1,000 | Males | Females | Total |
Year | *Clinic sessions | New cases | Attendances | Staff (in terms of whole-time units) |
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Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | |||
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Male | Female | Male | Female |
Year | Unaccompanied children | Expectant and nursing mothers and accompanied young children | Other adults | Total | ||
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Under 5 years | School children | Mothers | Children |
District | Address | Area covered. The metropolitan boroughs of | *Total number of staff authorised |
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1952 | 1951 | |||
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Male | Female | Total |
1952 | 1951 | |||
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Male | Female | Total |
Totals from | |||||
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Sources of information | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1.4.14 to |
31.12.52 |
1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Centre | Accommodation | Centre | Accommodation |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Age Group and Sex | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Total No. of inspections | Rota visits No. found to be verminous | |||||
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Percentage found to be verminous |
1949 % | 1950 % | 1951 % | 1952 % |
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Total | 1949 % | 1950 % | 1951 % | already wearing spectacles | 1952 Percentage not wearing spectacles | total |
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Excellent | Normal | Sub-normal and bad |
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Good | Fair | Poor |
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Referred for | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Type of clinic | L.C.C. | Voluntary Committee | Total |
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Department | New cases | Attendances |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Brixton | Battersea | Earls Court | Woodberry Down (opened Oct., 1952) | Total |
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Full-time | Part-time | Total Full-time | Establishment Full-time | ||
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Number | Equivalent to Full-time |
1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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£ |
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d. |
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Service | Cost | Amount recovered in charges |
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£ | £ |
1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952ø |
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Weekended | 8 No. | 15 Nov. | 22 Nov. | 29 Nov. | 6 Dec. | Av. of wks. 45-49, in 1949, 1950, 1951, |
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Week number | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 |
Week | 0-4 weeks | 4 weeks to to 1 year | 1-4 years | 5-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-34 years | 35-44 years | 45-54 years | 55-64 years | 65-74 years | 75 and over (years) | All ages |
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Week | Pul. T.B. | Cancer of lung | Heart disease | High blood pressure | Other diseases of circulatory system | Influenza | Pneumonia | Bronchitis | Other resp. | Ill-defined causes | All other causes | All causes |
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Week ended | All ages | Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-19 | 20-39 | 40-59 | 60 and over |
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Week ended | All causes | Phthisis | Bronchitis | Pneumonia | Heart disease | Whooping-cough |
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Week ended | All ages | Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-19 | 20-39 | 40-59 | 60 and over |
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Week ended | All causes | Phthisis | Bronchitis | Pneumonia | Heart disease | Whooping-cough |
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Week ended | 20th December, 1873 | 7th February, 1880 | 13th December, 1952 |
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Date | Age | All* ages | ||||
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Under 1 | 1-14 | 15-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
Week ended | 22nd Nov. | 29th Nov. | 6th Dec. | 13th Dec. | 20th Dec. | 27th Dec. |
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Immunised in the month of | No. at risk | 1949 | 1950 | Total | |||||||||||||||
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Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Observed | Expected |
Immunised in the month of | No. at risk | 1949 | 1950 | Total | |||||||||||||||
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Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Observed | Expected |
Immunised in the month of | No. at risk | 1949 | 1950 | Total | |||||||||||||||
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Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Observed | Expected |
Month | A.P.T. | Combined | All other antigens | |||
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Observed | Expected | Observed | Expected | Observed | Expected |
Same month | In the following month | In the second month following inoculation | In the third month following inoculation | Total of the four preceding columns * | |||||
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Obs. | Exptd. | Obs. | Exptd. | Obs. | Exptd. | Obs. | Exptd. | Obs. | Exptd. |
Period | In the same month | In the following month | In the same month and the month following together | In the same month and all the three months following inoculation |
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Period | Same Site | Included site* | Different site | No record of paralysis | Total | |||||
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % |
Year | Mid-year estimate of population | Average age | ||||||
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Total | 0-4 | 5-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
Metropolitan boroughs arranged in divisional order | Estimated home population mid 1952 | Live births | Death.rate* | Notifications of infectious disease | |||||||||||||||||||
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Deaths | Infant mortality (per r,ooo live births) | Heart disease | Other circulatory | Cerebral vascular lesions | Peptic ulcer | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Pneu monia | Other respiratory diseases | Cancer | Violence | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Poliomyelitis | Meningococcal infection | Acute pneumonia | Measles | Whooping cough | Tuberculosis | |||||
Paralytic | Non Paralytic | Pulmonary | Non pul- monary |
Period | Annual rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living (b) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Live births | Total births (c) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Live births | Marriages | Deaths (all causes) | Meningococcal infection | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Whooping-cough | Measles | Influenza | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia (all forms) | Bronchitis | Other resp. diseases | Heart disease | Cancer | Diabetes | Infants 0—1 | Diarrhoea amd enteritis 0—2 | Puerperal fever | Other child-birth | |||
Pulmonary | Non-pul- monary |
Cause | Sex | 0- | 1- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 75+ | Total | |
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1952 | 1951 |
Case | Sex | 0— | 1 — | 5— | 15— | 25— | 45— | 65— | 75+ | Total | |
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1952 | 1951 |
Year | Live births | Still-births | ||
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No. | Rate per 1,000 total population | No. | Rate per 1,000 live and still-births |
Cause of death | Age at death | Total | Rates per 1,000 live births | ||||||||||
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Cause of death | 1915 to 1918 | 1919 to 1922 | 1923 to 1926 | 1927 to 1930 | 1931 to 1934 | 1935 to 1938 | 1939 to 1942 | 1943 to 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Year | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Non.pulmonary tuberculosis | ||||||
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Formal Primary notifications | Deaths | Formal primary notifications | Deaths |
Form of tuberculosis notified | Sex | Number of formal primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis | Total all ages | ||||||||||
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0- | 7- | 5- | 70- | 75- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65+ |
1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | * 1952 |
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Sex | Age | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | |||||||
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No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
Age group | Year | Site o f tuberculosis lesion | |||||
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Bones and Joints | Abdomen | Peripheral glands | Meninges | Other sites (a) | Total |
Year | Chicken-pox | Diphtheria | German measles | Impetigo | Measles | Mumps | Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis | Poliomyelitis | Ringworm | Scabies | Scarlet fever | Whooping-cough |
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Contra.indications | Boys | Girls | ||
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Year | Anthrax | Meningococcal infection | Continued fever | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Acute Encephalitis | Enteric fever | Erysipelas | Malaria | Measles | Ophthalmia neonatorum | Pneumonia | Poliomyelitis | Puerperal pyrexia | Scabies | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Typhus | Whooping. cough | Food poisoning | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate | Cases | Rate |
Four weekly periods 1952 | Meningococcal infection | Dysentery | Measles | Pneumonia | Poliomyelitis | Scarlet fever | Whooping-cough | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paralytic | Non-paralytic or not stated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ages | Ages | Ages | Ages | Ages | Ages | Ages | Ages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total | 0—4 | 5—14 | 15+ | Total |
Type of case | Blind | Partially-sighted | Deaf | Partially-deaf | Special School for the | Delicate, boarding | Maladjusted, boarding | Physically handicapped, day | Physically handicapped, boarding | Ordinary school | Ordinary school with special treatment | Decision postponed (pending treatment, etc.) | Unsuitable for school (e.g. ineducable) | Individual tuition at home or in hospital | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Educationally subnormal, day | Educationally subnormal, boarding | Epileptic, boarding | Delicate, day | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G |
Morbid condition | Day P.H. school | Boarding P.H. school | Total P.H. school | Ordinary school | ||||||
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Boys | Girls | Total | Boys | Girls | Total | Boys | Girls | Total |
Recommendation | Blind | Partially-sighted | Deaf | Children attending special schools for the | Delicate, day | Physically handicapped | Maladjusted, boarding | |||||||||||
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Partially-deaf | Educationally subnormal | Epileptic, boarding |
Recommended for speech therapy because of |
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Boys | Girls | Total |
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Sex | Articular rheumatism | Chorea | Articular rheumatism and chorea | ||||||||||||||||||
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No. admitted | Percentage with | No. admitted | Percentage with | No. admitted | Percentage with | ||||||||||||||||
Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | No cardiac involvement | Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | No cardiac involvement | Carditis | Pericarditis only | Valvular damage | No cardiac involvement | ||||||||||
Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis | Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis | Mitral | Mitral and aortic | and pericarditis |
Sex | Fit for ordinary school or ordinary employment | Fit for P.H. school or light employment | Unfit for school or work | Total | |||
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No. | Percentage | No. | Percentage | No. | Percentage |
Year | New cases | Total venereal cases | Total non-venereal cases | Total attendances | ||||||||
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Syphilis | S. Chancre | Gonorrhoea | ||||||||||
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. |
Borough | No. of houses in borough | Public Health Act | Housing Acts, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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No. of houses inspected on account of complaints or illness | No. of statutory notices served | No. of prosecutions | No. of houses repaired | No. of houses inspected | Section 25 | Section 9 and 10 | Number of houses demolished | Closing Orders | Overcrowding | No. of dwellings erected for working classes during the year | Underground rooms | Houses let in lodgings | ||||||||||||
No. of houses represented | No. of houses demolished | No. of houses repaired | Section 11 | Voluntarily | No. made | No. determined | No. of families overcrowded | No. of families alternative accommodation obtained | No. occupied but unfit | No. closed or modified occupation approved | No. of closing orders determined | No. in Borough | No. of inspections | No. of prosecutions | No. of complaints remedied | |||||||||
By owner | By L.A. |
Borough | Cowsheds | Slaughterhouses | Offensive trades | Smoke nuisances | Common lodging houses | Cleansing of persons and rooms | Water supply | Dairies and milk shops | Ice-cream premises | Restaurants and eating houses | |||||||||||||
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No. licensed | No. of inspections | No. licensed | No. of inspections | No. authorised | No. of inspections | Observations | Intimations | Complaints | Notices | Houses licensed | No. of inspections | Persons | Rooms or premises | Tenement houses extra supply | No. on register | No. of inspections | No. on register | No. of inspections | No. of places | No. of inspections | |||
Adults | Children | After infectious disease | For vermin |
Type of staff | Location | Staff employed at other establishments (a) | Total | |
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Head office staff | Divisional staff |