London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
71
Certain suggestions with regard to the hygiene of the parrot house cages, quarantine
station, etc., were also offered, and these were readily adopted by the Zoological
Society.
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
No action was taken under section 66 of the Public Health Act, 1925, the London
County Council undertaking the welfare of blind persons in the County of London
by means of their scheme formulated under the Blind Persons Acts, 1920 and 1938.
Under an arrangement with the London County Council the borough council
has undertaken that provision for blind children up to the age of five years shall be
made by the child welfare centres, and that home visiting in such cases shall be
carried out by the health visitors. Where the home conditions are unsuitable for a
blind child, arrangements are made for its reception into an approved institution.
Only in very exceptional circumstances, however, is a blind child removed from
its own home. No case came to the knowledge of the Department during 1938.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN SCHOOLS.
Table 45 shows the number of cases of notifiable and other infectious diseases
reported from schools during 1938.
TABLE 45.
Infectious Diseases in Schools.
| SCHOOL. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping cough. | Chickenpox. | Measles | All other Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Souls, Foley Street | 2 | 3 | — | 1 | 32 | 6 |
| Barrow Hill Road | 2 | — | — | 5 | 61 | 7 |
| Bell Street | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 10 | 7 |
| Capland Street | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 35 | 17 |
| Christ Church, Cosway Street | 3 | — | — | — | 28 | — |
| Clipstone Street | 1 | 1 | — | 7 | 8 | 1 |
| Convent (St. Edward's) Golford Place | — | 1 | — | 2 | 33 | — |
| Cosway Street | 2 | — | — | 13 | 110 | 8 |
| Emmanuel, Aberdeen Place | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Gateforth Street | 1 | 4 | — | 3 | 4 | — |
| Hampden Gurney | 3 | — | — | 4 | 37 | 6 |
| Homer Row, Roman Catholic | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | — |
| Jewish, Hanway Street | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orchardson Street, Roman Catholic | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 29 | — |
| Regent's Park Central | — | — | — | — | 3 | — |
| St. James's, Marylebone Lane | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| St. Mark's, Violet Hill | 3 | 3 | — | 13 | 31 | 1 |
| St. Marylebone Central, Marylebone High Street | 2 | 3 | — | 71 | 96 | 9 |
| St. Marylebone Grammar, Marylebone Road | 1 | — | 1 | — | 15 | 1 |
| St. Mary's (Western), York Street | — | 2 | 1 | 12 | 28 | 3 |
| St. Paul's Bentinck, Rossmore Road | 4 | — | — | 25 | 54 | 8 |
| St. Thomas's, Picton Place | — | 4 | — | — | 31 | — |
| St. Vincent's, Wigmore Street | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Schools in other Boroughs | 1 | 1 | — | 8 | 13 | — |
| Totals | 32 | 34 | 10 | 186 | 663 | 75 |
TUBERCULOSIS.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the Milk Trade.
Provision is made in the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925, designed to secure that no person suffering from respiratory tuberculosis