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Marylebone 1938

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

Published
1939
Pages
88
Tables
63

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    THE YEARS 1909 AND 1938—A COMPARISON.
    19091938
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    CONTENTS.
    page
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    TABLE 1. Occupations of Inhabitants—Census 1931.
    Commerce and finance Learned professionsPublic administrationMales.Females.
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    TABLE 2. Number of Insured Persons recorded as Unemployed at Employment Exchanges on the dates indicated.
    MalesFemalesTotal
    (aged 16-64).(aged 16-64).(aged 16-64).
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    TABLE 3.
    BasisYear.Borough. All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.St. John.
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    Table 4 contains a comparison of the rates in the several registration sub-districts and the Borough as a whole for 1938, with those of each of the five previous years. TABLE 4.
    Sub-District193319341935193619371938
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    District births for the year ended 31st December, 1938, are given in Table 5. Vital statistics of separate localities for 1938, and the ten preceding years, will be found in Table 14 on page 18. TABLE 5.
    Sub-District.Population estimated to middle of 1938.Births.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    Table 6 shows the death-rates in the several registration sub-districts in 1938, and compares them with those of the preceding five years. TABLE 6.
    Sub-District193319341935193619371938
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    District deaths for the year ended 31st December, 1938, are given in Table 7. Vital statistics of separate localities for 1938, and the ten preceding years, will be found in Table 14 on page 18. TABLE 7.
    Sub-District.Population estimated to middle of 1938.Deaths.Total.
    Males.Females.
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    TABLE 8. 1938.
    January-March.April-June.July-September.October. December.Total.
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    TABLE 9. 1937.
    January-March.April-June.July-September.October-December.Total.
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    TABLE 10. INFANTILE 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 6 Months.6 and under 9 Months.9 and under 1 2 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.St. John.Total
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    TABLE 11. 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 12. Cancer : Situation of the Disease.
    Parts of the body affected.Males.Females.Totals.
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    TABLE 13. V ital S tatistics for 1938 and T en P revious Y ears.
    Year 1Population estimated to middle of each Year 2Uncorrected 3Births NettTotal Deaths Registered in the DistrictTransferable DeathsNett Deaths belonging to the District
    of Nonresidents registered in the District 8of Residents not registered in the District 9Under 1 year of AgeAt all Ages
    No. 4Rate 5No. 6Rate 7
    No. 10Rate per 1,000 Nett Births 11No. 12Rate 13
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    TABLE 14. Vital Statistics of Separate Localities for 1938 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.j Deaths under 1 year.
    a.b.c.d.a.b.c.d.a.b.c.d.a.6.c.d.a.b.c.d.
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    TABLE 15. C auses of, and A ges at D eath during the year 1938
    No.CAUSES OF DEATH.Nett deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents" whether occurring within or without the district.Total Deaths, whether of Residents or Non-Residents in Institutions in the 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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    MORTUARY. The number of bodies deposited from 1st January to 31st December, 1938, was as follows:— TABLE 16.
    Males.Females.Total.No. of post-mortems held.No. of infectious cases.
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    TABLE 17. Home Nursing Service.
    No. of cases nursed.No. of visits paid.
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    TABLE 18.
    Terms of supply.Milk.Meals supplied at Dining Centres.Other Food.
    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 19.
    Day Nursery.Address.Attendances, 1938.
    Whole-day.Half-day.
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    TABLE 20.
    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 21.
    Condition.Cases.
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    TABLE 22.
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    During the nine months 63 sessions were held and 271 attendances made.
    First Attendances (New Cases)Subsequent AttendancesTotal Attendances
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    TABLE 23. Statement Showing Work of the Infant Consultations and Other Clinics.
    Centre.Health Centre No. 1.Health Centre No. 2.Health Centre No. 3.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.The Middlesex Hospital.
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    TABLE 24. Statement Showing Work of the Municipal Ante-Natal and Post-Natal Clinics.
    1938.Jan.Feb.Mar.Apl.May.June.July.Aug.Sept.Oct.Nov.Dec.Totals.
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    TABLE 25. Drainage of Premises.
    1938.Northern District.Southern District.Total.
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    TABLE 26.
    Nature of Nuisance.Districts.The Borough.
    No. 1.No. 2.No. 3No. 4No. 5No. 6.
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    TABLE 27.
    Municipal or privately owned.Flats first occupied.Total number of flats.Number found to be verminous
    Flats.Year.
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    TABLE 28. 1.—Inspections for Purposes of Provisions as to Health.
    Number of
    Premises.Inspections.Written Notices.Occupiers prosecuted
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    TABLE 29. 2.—Defects Found.
    Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of defects in respect of which Prosecutions were instituted.
    Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
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    TABLE 30. 3.—Home Work.
    OUTWORKERS' LISTS (S.110).OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES. (S.1ll)
    NATURE OF WORK.Lists received from Employers.Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists.Prosecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.
    ListsOutworkers.Failing to keep lists.Failing to send lists.
    Contractors.Workmen.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)
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    TABLE 31. 4.—Registered Factories and Workplaces.
    Factories and Workshops on the Register at the end of the year. (1)Number. (2)
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    TABLE 32. 5.—Other Matters.
    Class.Number.
    (1)(2)
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    TABLE 33. Re-Housing Schemes.
    Situation.Area (Approximate) Acres.Estimated cost of rehousing.No. of persons involved.Position.
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    TABLE 34. Common Lodging Houses.
    Address.Registered Owner.Registered number of Occupants.
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    TABLE 35. Milk (Special Designations) Order, 1936.
    Grade of Milk.Type of Licence.No. of Licences issued.
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    TABLE 36. Unsound Food Condemned and Destroyed.
    Meat—Tinned Goods—
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    TABLE 37. Statement of Food and Drugs Analysed
    No.Article.Number Examined.Number Adulterated, etc.
    Formal.Informal.Private.Total.Formal.Informal.Private.Total.
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    The average composition of the milk examined during 1938, as well as that for the two years preceding, was as follows:—
    Year.Sp. Gr.Total Solids.Fat.Solids not Fat.
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    table 38 gives a list of diseases which were notifiable in St. Marylebone during the year under review. TABLE 38 List or Notifiable Diseases.
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    Table 39 shows the number of cases of infectious disease notified during the past six years TABLE 39. Infectious Disease Notifications.
    193319341935193619371938
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    TABLE 40. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during 1938.
    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 agesAt Ages—years.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ ChurchSt. John.Totals.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ ChurchSt. John.Totals.
    —11—2—3—4—5—10—15—20—35—45—65—
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    TABLE 41. Work of the Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics.
    Pre-school children.School children.Adults.Totals.
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    TABLE 42. Diphtheria Immunisation of Children (Ages 0—15 Years).
    193619371938
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    TABLE 43. Vaccination Return—1937. Return made to the Borough Council and Ministry of Health on the 11th February, 1939. 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, 1937, to 31st December, 1937, 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, 1937.Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1939, in Columns I, II, IV and V of the " Vaccination Register " (Birth List Sheets), viz. :Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1939, remained unentered in the "Vaccination Register" on account (as shown by Report Book) ofTotal number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 193 9, 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 1938.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 1938.
    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 Statutory Declarations of Conscientious Objection have been received.Died un-vacci-nated.
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    TABLE 44. Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
    Notified.Cases Treated.Vision Unimpaired.Vision Impaired.Total Blindness.Deaths.Removed, etc.
    At Home.At Hospital.
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    TABLE 45. Infectious Diseases in Schools.
    SCHOOL.Scarlet fever.DiphtheriaWhooping cough.Chickenpox.MeaslesAll other Diseases.
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    TABLE 46. Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths.
    Age Periods.*NEW CASES.†DEATHS.
    PulmonaryNon-PulmonaryPulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
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    TABLE 47. 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.
    At all Ages.At ages—years.65 and upwards.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ ChurchSt. John.Totals.All Souls.St. Mary.Christ ChurchSt. John.Totals.Cases isolated at home.
    Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.
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    TABLE 48. PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930. Part I.—Summary of notifications during the period from the 1st January, 1938, to the 31st December, 1938, in the area of the Metropolitan Borough oi 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.)
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    Supplemental Return. Part II.—New cases of tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during 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 cases was obtained is stated below:—
    Source of Information.No. of cases.
    Pulmonary.Non-pulmonary.
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    P art III.—N otification R egister.
    Pulmonary.Non-pulmonary.Total cases.
    Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE 49. Phthisis Mortality, 1934—1938.
    Year.Estimated population.Deaths at All Ages.Sub-Districts.
    All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.St. John.
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    TABLE 50. Tuberculosis Scheme. Return showing the work carried out in connection with the Dispensary during the year 1938.
    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 51. Tuberculosis. Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1938 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register ; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all cases written off the Register.
    Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates.Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
    Previous to 1938.1938.Previous to1938.1938.
    Class | . T.B. minus.Class T.B. plusClass TB. minus.Class T.B. plusBones and joints.Abdominal.Other organsPeripheral glands.Total.Bones and joints.Abdominal.Other organsPeripheral glands.Total.
    Group 1-Group 2.Group 3.Total (Class TB.plus)Group 1.Group 2.Group 3.Total (Class TB.plus)
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    TABLE 52. Tuberculosis Care Committee.
    NAME.REPRESENTS.
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    Articles. The number of articles disinfected is shown hereunder:— TABLE 53.
    Compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases.Other Infectious Diseases.Vermin.Miscellaneous.Total.
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    The number of journeys made by the disinfecting vans during the year ended December, 1938, was:—
    January114August88
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    The number of rooms dealt with and the reasons for carrying out disinfection are stated below:— TABLE 54.
    Compulsorily Notifiable Infec tious Diseases.Other Infectious Diseases.Vermin.Miscellaneous.Total.
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    Table 65 shows the number of specimens examined for the purposes of diagnosis, and indicates also the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made. TABLE 55.
    Examination.Positive.Negative.Suspicious.Total.