[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Table: VITAL STATISTICS, ETC., FOR BARKING DURING THE PERIOD 1907 TO 1957 continued
VITAL STATISTICS, ETC., FOR BARKING DURING THE PERIOD 1907 TO 1957 continued
PRIOR TO 1907
1907
1917
1927
1937
1947
1957
SCHOOLS
Gascoigne Northbury Castle
Nonhbury Gascoigne Westbury Church of Eng. Roman Catholic Castle Creeksmouth
Not available
8 schools C24 Depts.) 1 Day Special
17 schools (41 Depts.) 1 Day Special
1/ schools (39 Depts.) 1 Day Special (Plus 1 Grammar and 1 Technical for which we undertake medical super— vision)
Depts.) 1 Day Special
SCHOOL POPULATION
1904 = 6,080
6,338
7,000
13,700 (approx.)
12,120
13,158
ROUTINE SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTIONS
No records
1909 = 1,258 (Entrants and leavers only)
2.052
2,249
4,812
8,970
6,526
Percentage of pupils found requiring treatment
—
No. of individual pupils not available, but total of 1,197 defects required treatment.
25.4%
16.7%
16.6%
13.6%
12.2%
Nutrition
—
15.71% defective (Rickets 3%)
.38% malnutrition (Rickets Nil)
.5% malnutrition (Rickets nil)
Nutrition—A : 36.6% B : 59.1% C : 4.2% D : .1%
Nutrition—A : 33.15% B : 66.57% C : .28%
Satisfactory:99.91% Unsatisfactory:.09%
UNCLEAN-LINESSINSPECTIONS: Pupils found unclean
—
M.O.H. writes:— " A large number of dirty and verminous children have been visited and cleansed and rendered fit to attend school."
41%
11%
3%
3%
1.6%
MINORAILMENTCLINICS
NilExtract from 1910 Report reads:" Infants' Clinic. Mothers are en-couraged to bring their babies to the Sanitary Inspector (female) to be weighed on Tuesday afternoons at the Public Offices—now a large and comfortable room at the Old Town Hall is used . . . . "In 1912-13: provision made for estab-lishment of a School Clinic on land belonging to the Council in the Town Yard.
Nil
East Street
East Street
Central (opened 1934)Woodward (opened 1935)— (replacing temp, clinic in Church Hall since 1930)
Central Woodward Porters (which first started in Church Hall in 1938)
