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It is undesirable that ordinary health visiting staff should go into homes to
play any part in the personal nursing of cases of measles, but you might wish to
explore-the possibility of domiciliary visits being paid by members of the staff
of the Barking Hospital, whose visits would not only be for investigation and
report, but would also include such nursing as could be undertaken on the district,
having regard to all the circumstances of each particular case.
6. BIRTHS.
The net number of births registered in 1936 was 1,195, affording an annual
birth rate of 15.72 per 1,000 population, compared with 16.9 in 1935, 17.4 in 1934,
17.4 in 1933, 18.3 in 1932, 18.3 in 1931, 17.8 in 1930, 18.7 in 1929 and 19.7 in 1928.
Of all births, 20 were illegitimate, giving a percentage of 1.67 of the total
births.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907-1915.—During 1936 there were 1,183 live
births notified, excluding 2 cases transferred from the district. In addition,
notifications of still-births belonging to the district totalled 32.
Seventeen live births and 2 still-births were not notified, and these cases are
not included in the totals of notified births given above.
7. SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
(a) Industries.—Some of the chief industries carried on in the area are as follows:—
The production of electricity, gas, benzole, naphtha and zinc oxide.
The manufacture of asbestos goods, joinery, ice-cream, letter files, mineral
waters, marine lights, disinfectants, printing ink, sausage skins, cabinets
and furniture, nautical instruments, paint, iron goods, tin boxes, lifebelts,
* rubber goods, wireless equipment and batteries, matches, soap, chemical
manure, wood-paving and concrete paving and food products.
The storage of petrol, oil, fuel and timber.
Electrical welding, structural engineering and joinery works.
The population of Barking is almost entirely industrial. Barking is a
dormitory.