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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Status | Number | % | Heads of: | |||||
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All private households | % | 1 person households | % | 2 person households | % |
Year | London A.C. | England and Wales |
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Cause | Approximate change as a percentage of those formerly assigned to this cause † |
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Year(s) | London | England and Wales |
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Cause | No. of deaths | Per cent. of total | ||
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1952 | 1953 | 1952 | 1953 |
Year | Live births and stillbirths | Deaths in pregnancy or child-birth excluding abortion | Post-abortion deaths | Notification of puerperal pyrexia | |||
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No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
Cause of death | Post-abortion | Other pregnancy and child birth | Total |
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Deaths | Rate per 1,000 population | General |
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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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Age | No. | % |
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Year | Percentage of notifications in the 0-4 age group |
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Year | 0-4 | 5-14 | 15-44 | Total | Rate per 1,000 living (0-44) |
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Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
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Source of sample | Designation | Samples | Percentage positive of completed samples | ||||
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Total | Positive | Incomplete | Negative | ||||
1953 | 1952 |
Classification | Certified blind | Not blind | Grand Total | ||||
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Male | Female | Total | Male | Female | Total |
Male | Female | Total |
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Number of beds in home | Number of homes | Patients accommodated | ||
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All types† | Medical and surgical only* | Total |
Approved | Rejected |
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Division | Premises | Service | Work involved |
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Division | Premises | Work involved |
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Division | Property | Interest obtained | Service |
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Year | Ante-natal | ||||||||||
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Clinics at end of year (including combined ante-natal and post-natal) | Sessions per month | Attendances | Percentage of pregnant women making at least one attendance at ante-natal clinic | ||||||||
First | Total |
Age Group | Maintained | Grant-aided | Total |
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At 31st December | ||
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1952 | 1953 |
Year | Maternity Nursing Cases | Midwifery Cases | Grand Total | ||||||
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L.C.C. | Hospital | District Nursing Association | Total | L.C.C. | Hospital | District Nursing Association | Total |
Treatment given | Removed to Hospital | Remained at at Home | Total |
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Midwives | Maternity nurses |
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1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Number | Percentage of total |
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1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Number of applications |
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Year | Accident Section | General Section | Total | |||||||
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Patients | Non-patient carrying journeys | Total journeys (calls) | Mileage | Patients | Journeys | Mileage | Patients | Journeys | Mileage |
Year | Total Emergency Work | Total General Section Work | Grand Total | |||
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Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage | Patients | Mileage |
1952 | 1953 |
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Establishment | Notified case | Children | Adults | ||||
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Tuberculin tested | Positive reactors | X-rayed | Abnormal | X-rayed | Abnormal |
Establishment | Notified case | Children | Adults | ||||
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Tuberculin tested | Positive reactors | X-rayed | Abnormal | X-rayed | Abnormal |
Year | *Clinic sessions | New cases | Attendances | Staff (in terms of whole-time units) |
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Regional Hospital Board unit | Metropolitan boroughs visited during 1953 | 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 |
Syphilis | Gonorrhoea | |||
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Male | Female | Male | Female |
Unaccompanied children | Expectant and Nursing Mothers | Accompanied Children | Other Adults | Total | ||
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under 5 years | School children |
1953 | 1952 | |||
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1953 | 1952 | |||
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Sources of information | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | Totals from 1.4.14 to 31.12.53 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1952 | 1953 |
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1952 | 1953 |
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Age group and sex | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Visual acuity (with glasses, if worn) | Pcrcent. referred for treatment | |||||||
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6/6 | 6/9 | 6/12 or worse | % wearing glasses | Total | Already wearing glasses | Not wearing glasses |
Total Number of Inspections | Pupils found to be verminous (*) | ||
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Number | Percentage |
Year | No. of pupils on school rolls | No. of nurses' hygiene inspections | No. of occasions oh which pupils were found to be 'verminous' | Column (4) as a percentage of column (3) | No. of individual children comprising column (4) | Percentage of the school population of the individual children in col. (6) |
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) |
School nursing Sisters | Doctors |
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Contra-indications | Boys | Girls |
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Year | Chicken-pox | German measles | Measles | Mumps | Ophthalmia and Conjunctivitis | Ringworm | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough |
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Type of clinic |
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Department | New Cases | Attendances |
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Department | New Cases | Attendances |
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Type of clinic | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Category | Pupils not in special school | Pupils already in special school |
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Special School for the: | Vision | Hearing | E.S.N. | Maladjusted | Epilepsy | Physically handicapped | Delicate |
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Special School for the : | Vision | Hearing | E.S.N. | Maladjusted | Epilepsy | Physically handicapped | Delicate |
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Morbid condition: | Day P.H. | Boarding P.H. | Ordinary | |||
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B | G | B | G | B | G |
1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Articular Rheumatism | Boys | Girls |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Brixton | Battersea | Earls Court | Woodberry Down | Total |
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Total Establishment | Staff | Equivalent in Full-time Staff | Sessions | Total Sessions | |||||||
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Total Number employed | Fulltime | Part-time | School Seruice | MCW Service | School Service | MCW Service | School Service | MCW Service | |||
Fulltime | Part-time | Fulltime | Part-time |
1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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d. |
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Service | Cost | Amount recovered in charges |
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1932 | 1953 |
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Year | Mid-year estimate of home population by the Registrar General | 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 1953 | Live births | Death-rates | Notifications of infectious disease | |||||||||||||||||||
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Deaths | Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births) | Heart disease | Other circulatory | Cerebral vascular lesions | Peptic ulcer | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Pneumonia | Other respiratory diseases | Cancer | Violence | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Poliomyelitis | Meningococcal infection | Acute pneumonia | Measles | Whooping cough | Tuberculosis | |||||
Paralytic | Non Paralytic | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
Year(s) | Annual rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living (b) | Annual mortality | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Infant (per 1,000 live births) | Maternal (per 1,000 total oirths (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 and enteritis 0—2 | Puerperal fever | Other child-birth | ||
Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary |
Cause | Sex | 0— | 1— | 5— | 15— | 25— | 45— | 65— | 75+ | Total | |
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1953 | 1952 |
Case | Sex | 0— | 1— | 5— | 15— | 25— | 45— | 65— | 75+ | Total | |
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1953 | 1952 |
Year(s) | Live births | Still-births | ||
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No. | Rate per 1,000 total population | No. | Rate per 1,000 total births (live and still) |
Cause of death | Age at death | Total | Rates per 1,000 live births | ||||||||||
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Under 1 day | 1 to 7 days | 1 to 4 wks. | 4 wks. to 1 yr. | No. | Male | Female | Total | Male | Female |
Cause of death | 1931 to 1935 | 1936 to 1940 | 1941 to 1945 | 1946 to 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 |
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Year(s) | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Non.pulmonary tuberculosis | ||||||
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Statutory notifications | Deaths | Statutory notifications | Deaths | |||||
No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living | No. | Annual rate per 1,000 living |
Form of tuberculosis notified | Sex | Number of notifications of new cases of tuberculosis | Total all ages | ||||||||||
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0— | 1— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 25— | 35— | 45— | 55— | 65+ |
1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | * 1952 | * 1953 |
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Men | Women | Children | Total |
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Registrar-Central's Short Classification of Employment | Population mid 1951 | Tuberculosis Notifications— 1951 | Tuberculosis Notifications—1953 | ||||||||
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Males | Females | Males | Females | ||||||||
Males | Females | Number | Rate per 1,000 | Number | Rate per 1,000 | Number | Rate per* 1,000 | Number | Rate per* 1,000 |
Sex | Age | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | |||||||
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No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
Age group | Year | Site of tuberculosis lesion | ||||||
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Bones and joints | Abdomen | Peripheral glands | Meninges | Other sites (a) | Total |
Year | Chicken-pox | Diphtheria | Rubella | Impetigo | Measles | Mumps | Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis | Poliomyelitis | Ringworm | Scabies | Scarlet fever | Whooping-cough |
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Year | Anthrax | Continued fever | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Acute Encephalitis | Enteric fever | Erysipelas | Malaria | Measles | Meningococcal infection | 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 1953 | 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 |
Borough | Dwelling Houses | Public Health (London) Act | Housing Act, 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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No. in Borough | Erected by borough council | Houses inspected | Notices served | Prosecutions | Nuisances abated | House to house inspections | Section 9 | Section 11 | Closing Orders (other than underground rooms) | Underground rooms | Section 25 | Overcrowding | |||||||||||||
On complaint | On notification of illness* | Intimation | Statutory | Notices served | Houses made fit | Orders made | Houses demolished | Found to be unfit for habitation | Closed or modified occupation approved | Orders determined | Houses represented | Houses demolished | Families overcrowded | Families obtained alternative accommodation | |||||||||||
Houses closed | Section 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
By owners | By L.A. | Under Order | Voluntarily | Orders made | Orders determined |
Borough | Housing Act, 1936—continued | Common lodging houses | Slaughterhouses | Offensive trades | Dairies and milk shops | Ice-cream premises | Restaurants and eating houses | Smoke nuisances | Cleansing and disinfection | Extra water supply to tenement houses | |||||||||||||||
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Houses let in lodgings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. in borough | Inspections | Notices served | Complaints remedied | Licensed | Inspections | Licensed | Inspections | Authorised | Inspections | Registered | Inspections | Registered | Inspections | Number | Inspections | Complaints received | Observations | Notices served | Persons cleansed | Rooms or premises cleansed | |||||
Intimation | Statutory | Adults | Children | After infectious disease | For vermin |
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. |
Division | Divisional Medical Officer | Divisional Administrative Officer | Divisional Nursing Officer |
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Type of staff | Location | Staff employed at other establishments (a) | Total | |
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Head office staff | Divisional staff |