[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE 1. Number of Insured Persons recorded as Unemployed at Employment Exchanges on the dates indicated.

1937.		Males (aged 16—64).		Females (aged 16—64).		Total (aged 16—64).

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TABLE 2.

Basis	Year.	The Borough.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church.	St. John.

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TABLE 3.

Sub-District	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937

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TABLE 4.

Sub-District	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937

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TABLE 5.

Sub-District.	Population estimated to middle of 1937.	Births.			Deaths.
Sub-District.	Population estimated to middle of 1937.	Males.	Females.	Total.	Males.	Females.	Total.

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TABLE 6. 1937.

	January-March.	April-June.	July-September.	October-December.	Total.

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TABLE 7. 1936.

	January-March.	April-June.	July-September.	October-December.	Total.

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TABLE 8. INFANT MORTALITY. Nett Deaths from Stated Causes at various ages under One Year, and in Sub-Districts.

No.	CAUSE OF DEATH.	Under 1 Week.	1 and under 2 Weeks.	2 and under 3 Weeks.	3 and under 4 Weeks.	Total under 1 Month.	1 and under 3 Months.	3 and under C Months.	6 and under 9 Months.	9 and under 12 Months.	Total Doaths under 1 Year.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church.	St. John.	Total

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TABLE 9. Cancer: Ages at Death.

Ages.	Under 1.	2 and under 5.	5 and under 15.	15 and under 25.	25 and under 35.	35 and under 45.	45 and under 55.	55 and under 65.	65 and under 75.	75 and upwards.	Total

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TABLE 10. Cancer : Situation or the Disease.

Parts of the body affected.	Males.	Females.	Totals.

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TABLE 11. Vital Statistics for 1937 and Previous Ten Years.

Births			Total Deaths Registered in the District		Transferable Deaths		Nett Deaths belonging to the District
Uncorrected 3	Nett				Transferable Deaths		Nett Deaths belonging to the District
	Nett				of Nonresidents registered in the District 8	of Residents not registered in the District 9	Under 1 year of Age		At all Ages
	No. 4	Rate 5	No. 6	Rate 7	of Nonresidents registered in the District 8	of Residents not registered in the District 9	No. 10	Rate per 1,000 Nett Births 11	No. 12	Rate 13

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TABLE 12. Vital Statistics of Separate Localities for 1937 and Ten Previous Years.

Names of Localities.	The Whole Borough.				All Souls.				St. Mary.				Christ Church.				St. John.
Year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births registered.	Deaths at all Ages.	Deaths under 1 year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births registered.	Deaths at all Ages.	Deaths under 1 year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births registered.	Deaths at all Ages.	Deaths under 1 year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births registered.	Deaths at all Ages.	Deaths under 1 year.	Population estimated to middle of each year.	Births registered.	Deaths at all Ages.	Deaths under 1 year.
	a.	b.	c.	d.	a.	b.	c.	d.	a.	b.	c.	d.	a.	b.	c.	d.	a.	b.	c.	d.

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TABLE 13. — C auses of, and A ges at D eath during the year 1937.

No.	causes of death.	Nettdeathsatthesubjoinedagesof "Residents" whetheroccurringwithin orwithoutthedistrict.									TotalDeaths, whetherof Residentsor Non-Residents inInstitutions inthe District.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church.	St. John.	Total.
		All Ages.	Under 1.	1 and under 2.	2 and under 5.	5 and under 15.	15 and under 25.	25 and under 45.	45 and under 65.	65 and upwards.

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TABLE 14.

1937.	Males.	Females.	Total.	No. of post-mortems held.	No. of infectious cases.

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TABLE 15. Home Nursing Service.

	No. of eases nursed.	No. of visits paid.

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TABLE 16.

Terms of supply.	Milk.			Meals supplied at Dining Centres.			Other Food.
Terms of supply.	Expectant Mothers.	Nursing Mothers.	Children under 5 years of age.	Expectant Mothers.	Nursing Mothers.	Children under 5 years of age.	Expectant Mothers.	Nursing Mothers.	Children under 5 years of age.

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TABLE 17.

Day Nursery.	Address.	Attendances, 1937.
Day Nursery.	Address.	Whole-day.	Half-day.

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TABLE 18.

Disease.	Number of cases notified during the year.	Number of cases visited by officers of the Council.	Number of cases for whom home nursing was provided by the Council.	Number of cases removed to hospital.

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TABLE 19.

Condition.	Cases.

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TABLE 20. Statement Showing W e ek of the Infant Consultations and Other Clinics.

Centre.	No. 24 Hill Road.	No. 14 Salisbury Street.	No. 113 Marylebone Road.	Queen Charlotte's Hospital.	The Middlesex Hospital.
Centre.	No. 24 Hill Road.	Held at the Old Baths.		Queen Charlotte's Hospital.	The Middlesex Hospital.

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TABLE 21. Statement Showing Woek of the Municipal Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics.

1937.	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apl.	May.	June.	July.	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Totals.

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TABLE 22

Nature of Nuisance.	Districts.						The Borough.
Nature of Nuisance.	No.1.	No. 2.	No. 3.	No. 4.	No. 5.	No. 6.	The Borough.

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TABLE 23. 1.—Inspection.

Premises. (1)	Number of
	Inspections. (2)	Written Notices. (3)	Prosecutions. (4)

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TABLE 24. 2.—D efects Found.

Particulars. (1)		Number of Defects.			Number of Prosecutions. (5)
		Found. (2)	Remedied. (3)	Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4)

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TABLE 25. 3.—Home Work.

OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107.										OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES. SECTION 108.			OUTWORK IN INFECTED PREMISES, SECTIONS 109,110
NATURE OF WORK.	Lists received from Employers.						Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists.	Prosecutions.		Instances.	Notices served.	Prosecutions.	Instances.	Orders made (Section 110)	Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110)
	Sending twice in the year.			Sending once in the year.				Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists.	Failing to send lists.
	Lists.	Outworkers.		Lists.	Outworkers.
	Lists.	Contractors.	Workmen.	Lists.	Contractors.	Workmen.
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)	(12)	(13)	(14)	(15)	(16)

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TABLE 26. 4.—Registered Workshops.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1)	Number. (2)

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TABLE 27. 5.—Other Matters.

Class. (1)		Number. (2)

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TABLE 28. Overcrowding .

Ward No.	Families Recorded.	Rooms Occupied.	Families Overcrowded.

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TABLE 29 Re-Housing Schemes.

Situation.	Area (Approximate) Acres.	Estimated cost of rehousing.	No. of persons involved.	Position.

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TABLE 30. Common Lodging Houses.

Address.	Registered Owner.	Registered number of Occupants.

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TABLE 31. Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.

Grade of Milk.	Type of Licence.	No. of Licences issued.

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TABLE 32. Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.

Meat—		Tinned Goods—

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TABLE 33. Food and Drugs Analyses—Adulterated Samples.

Serial Number.	Article.	Whether Formal, Informal or Private.	Nature of Adulteration or Irregularity.	Observations.

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TABLE 34 Statement of Food and Drugs Analysed

No.	Article.	Number Examined.				Number Adulterated, etc.
No.	Article.	Formal.	Informal.	Private.	Total.	Formal.	Informal.	Private.	Total.

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Table 35 gives a list of diseases which were notifiable in St. Marylebone during the year under review. TABLE 35 List of Notifiable Diseases.

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Table 36 show3 the number of cases of infectious disease notified during the past six years TABLE 36. Infectious Disease Notifications.

	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937

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TABLE 37. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during 1937.

Notifiable Disease.	Cases notified in whole District.													Total cases notified in each locality.					Number of cases removed to hospital from each locality.					Cases isolated. at home.	Total deaths.
	At all ages	At Ages—years.												All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.
	At all ages	—1	1—	2—	3—	4—	5—	10—	15—	20—	35—	45—	65—	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.

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TABLE 38. Vaccination Return—1936. Return made to the Borough Council and Ministry of Health on the 12th February, 1938, by Dr. Charles Porter, Vaccination Officer of the Borough of St. Marylebone, respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered in St. Marylebone, from 1st January to 31st December, 1936, inclusive.

Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District.	Number of Births returned in the “Birth List Sheets “as registered from 1st January to 31st December, 1936.	Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1938, in Columns I, II, IV and V of the “Vaccination Register “(Birth List Sheets), viz. :					Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1938, remained unentered in the "Vaccination Register“on account (as shown by Report Book) of			Number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 1938, neither duly entered in the "Vaccination Register“(columns 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this Return) nor temporarily accounted for in the "Report Book“(columns 8, 9 and 10 of this Return).	Number of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination of children under 14 years received during the calendar year 1937.	Number of Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection actually received by the Vaccination Officer irrespective of the dates of birth of the children to which they relate during the calendar year 1937.
		Col. I.	Col.II.		Col. IV.	Col. V.	Postponement by Medical Certificate.	Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.	Removal to places unknown or which cannot be reached and Cases not having been found.
		Successfully Vaccinated.	Insusceptible of Vaccination.	Had Small-Pox.	Number in respect of whom Certificates of Conscientious Objection have been received.	Dead. Un-vacci-nated.	Postponement by Medical Certificate.
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13

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TABLE 39. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.

Notified.	Cases Treated.		Vision Unimpaired.	Vision Impaired.	Total Blindness.	Deaths.	Removed, etc.
Notified.	At Home.	At Hospital.	Vision Unimpaired.	Vision Impaired.	Total Blindness.	Deaths.	Removed, etc.

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TABLE 40. Infectious Diseases in Schools.

SCHOOL.	Scarlet Fever.	Diphtheria	Whooping Cough.	Chicken-pox.	Measles	All other Diseases.

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TABLE 41. Tuberculosis : New Cases and Deaths.

Age Periods.	*NEW CASES.				†DEATHS.
	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Pulmonary.		Non-Pulmonary.

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TABLE 42. Tuberculosis Notifications—Localisation of Disease.

Localisation of disease.	Cases notified in whole district.								Total cases notified in each locality.					Number of cases removed to hospital from each locality.					Cases isolated at home.
	At ages—Years.								All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.
	At all Ages.	Under 1.	1 to 5.	5 to 15.	15 to 25.	25 to 45.	45 to 65.	65 and upwards.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church	St. John.	Totals.

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TABLE 43. PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930. Part I. —Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1937, to the 31st December, 1937, in the area of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone.

Age periods.	Formal notifications.
	Number of primary notifications of new cases of tuberculosis.												Total Notifications.
	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65-	Total (all ages.)	Total Notifications.

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Supplemental Return. Part II.—New cases of tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health dining the above-mentioned period, otherwise than by formal notification.

Age periods.	0-	1-	5-	10-	15-	20-	25-	35-	45-	55-	65-	Total.

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The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned oases was obtained is stated below :—

SOURCE OF INFORMATION.		No. of cases.
SOURCE OF INFORMATION.		Pulmonary.	Non-pulmonary.

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Part III.—N otification Register.

	Pulmonary.			Non-pulmonary.			Total cases.
	Males.	Females.	Total.	Males.	Females.	Total.	Total cases.

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TABLE 44. Deaths from Phthisis, 1933—1937.

Year.	Estimated population.	All Ages.		Sub-Districts.
Year.	Estimated population.	All Ages.	All Souls.	St. Mary.	Christ Church.	St. John.

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TABLE 45. Tuberculosis Scheme . Return showing the work carried out in connection with the Dispensary during the year 1937.

Diagnosis.	Pulmonary.				Non-Pulmonary.				Total.				Grand Total.
	Adults.		Children.		Adults.		Children.		Adults.		Children.
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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TABLE 46. Tuberculosis. Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1937 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register ; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all cases written off the Register.

Pulmonary.										Non-Pulmonary.
Previous to 1937.					1937.					Previous to 1937.					1937.
Class T.B. minus.	Class T.B. plus				Class T.B. minus.	Class T.B. plus				Bones and joints.	Abdominal.	Otherorgans.	Peripheral glands.	Total.	Bones and joints.	Abdominal.	Otherorgans.	Peripheral glands.	Total.
Class T.B. minus.	Group 1.	Group 2.	Group 3.	Total (Class) T.B.plus	Class T.B. minus.	Group 1.	Group 2.	Group 3.	Total (Class T.B.plus)	Bones and joints.	Abdominal.	Otherorgans.	Peripheral glands.	Total.	Bones and joints.	Abdominal.	Otherorgans.	Peripheral glands.	Total.

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TABLE 47. Tuberculosis Care Committee.

NAME.	REPRESENTS.

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Articles. The number of articles disinfected is shown hereunder :— TABLE 48.

	Compulsorily Notifiable Diseases.	Phthisis.	Measles.	Vermin. Other Causes.	Total.

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TABLE 49.

Compulsorily Notifiable Diseases.		Phthisis.	Measles.	Vermin.	Other causes.	Total.

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Table 50 shews the number of specimens examined for the purposes of diagnosis, and indicates also the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made. TABLE 50.

Examination.	Positive.	Negative.	Suspicious.	Total.

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TABLE 1. Number of Insured Persons recorded as Unemployed at Employment Exchanges on the dates indicated.

TABLE 2.

TABLE 3.

TABLE 4.

TABLE 5.

TABLE 6. 1937.

TABLE 7. 1936.

TABLE 8. INFANT MORTALITY. Nett Deaths from Stated Causes at various ages under One Year, and in Sub-Districts.

TABLE 9. Cancer: Ages at Death.

TABLE 10. Cancer : Situation or the Disease.

TABLE 11. Vital Statistics for 1937 and Previous Ten Years.

TABLE 12. Vital Statistics of Separate Localities for 1937 and Ten Previous Years.

TABLE 13. — C auses of, and A ges at D eath during the year 1937.

TABLE 14.

TABLE 15. Home Nursing Service.

TABLE 16.

TABLE 17.

TABLE 18.

TABLE 19.

TABLE 20. Statement Showing W e ek of the Infant Consultations and Other Clinics.

TABLE 21. Statement Showing Woek of the Municipal Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics.

TABLE 22

TABLE 23. 1.—Inspection.

TABLE 24. 2.—D efects Found.

TABLE 25. 3.—Home Work.

TABLE 26. 4.—Registered Workshops.

TABLE 27. 5.—Other Matters.

TABLE 28. Overcrowding .

TABLE 29 Re-Housing Schemes.

TABLE 30. Common Lodging Houses.

TABLE 31. Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.

TABLE 32. Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.

TABLE 33. Food and Drugs Analyses—Adulterated Samples.

TABLE 34 Statement of Food and Drugs Analysed

Table 35 gives a list of diseases which were notifiable in St. Marylebone during the year under review. TABLE 35 List of Notifiable Diseases.

Table 36 show3 the number of cases of infectious disease notified during the past six years TABLE 36. Infectious Disease Notifications.

TABLE 37. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during 1937.

TABLE 39. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.

TABLE 40. Infectious Diseases in Schools.

TABLE 41. Tuberculosis : New Cases and Deaths.

TABLE 42. Tuberculosis Notifications—Localisation of Disease.

TABLE 43. PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930. Part I. —Summary of Notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1937, to the 31st December, 1937, in the area of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone.

Supplemental Return. Part II.—New cases of tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health dining the above-mentioned period, otherwise than by formal notification.

The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned oases was obtained is stated below :—

Part III.—N otification Register.

TABLE 44. Deaths from Phthisis, 1933—1937.

TABLE 45. Tuberculosis Scheme . Return showing the work carried out in connection with the Dispensary during the year 1937.

TABLE 46. Tuberculosis. Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1937 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register ; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all cases written off the Register.

TABLE 47. Tuberculosis Care Committee.

Articles. The number of articles disinfected is shown hereunder :— TABLE 48.

TABLE 49.

Table 50 shews the number of specimens examined for the purposes of diagnosis, and indicates also the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made. TABLE 50.