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Leyton 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

Published
1943
Pages
72
Tables
80

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    TABLE 1. Registered Births, 1942.
    Leyton.Lea Bridge.Central North.Central South.Forest.Leyton-stone.Grove Green.Harrow Green.Cann Hall.Wanstead Slip.Total.
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    TABLE 2. CAUSES OF DEATH AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE IN' THE BOROUGH OF LEYTON 1942
    Sex.ALL Aoes.Ages at Death in Years.In Public Institutions in the District
    Under 1 year.1 and under 2 years.2 and under 5 years.5 and under 15 years.15 and under 25 years25 and under 35 years.35 and under 45 years.45 and under 55 years.55 and under 65 years.65 and under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Not- belonging to District.Belonging to District.
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    TABLE 3. DEATHS IN WARDS, 1942.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.LeytonLea Biidge.Central North.Central South.ForestLeyton-stone.Grove Green.Harrow Green.Cann Hall.Wanstead Slip.Ward Not Known.
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    TABLE 4. Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1942 and Previous Years.
    Year.Births.Total Deaths Registered in the Borough.Transferable DeathsNett Deaths belonging to the Borough.
    Inward Trans-ferablesNett.of Nonresidents registered in the Borough.of Residents not registered in the Borough.Under 1 Year of Age.At all Ages.
    Number.Rate.Number.Rate per 1,000 Nett Births.Number.Rate.
    Number.Rate.
    1345678910111213
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    TABLE 5. Birth-bate, Death-rate and Analysis of Mortality During the Year 1942.
    Birthrate per 1,000 Total Population.Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population.Rate per 1,000 Births.Percentage of Total Deaths.
    All Causes.Enteric Fever.Smallpox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Influenza.Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 Years).Total Deaths under 1 Year.Certified by Registered Medical Practitioners.Inquest Cases.Certified by Coroner after P.M. No Inquest.Uncertified Causes of Death.
    Live Births.Still Births.
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    TABLE 6. Comparative Statistics of Births, Mortality, Etc. LEYTON, 1892-1942.
    Year.Births.Birth Rate.Deaths.Death Rate.Deaths under 1 year.Infantile Death Rate.
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    During the year 6,464 attendances were made, an average of 4.5 attendances per patient.
    First Attendances (new eases).Subsequent Attendances.Total Attendances. No. Per cent.Average No. of Visits per Patient.
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    During the year the numbers of persons who received free treatment was 89, 14.28 per cent, of the total number of new cases.
    First Attendances (new eases).Subsequent Attendances.Total Attendances.
    Males.Females.Males.Females.Males.Females.
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    Legislation should also be revised so as to place upon the owner of premises some legal responsibility. Although most owners are willing to co-operate, others are far from helpful in the matter. The following table gives details of complaints during the past eight years :—
    YearComplaintsInspectionsPremises Freed No. of
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    Designated Milk.
    Licences.No. Granted.No. of Samples taken.Result.
    Satisfactory.Unsatisfactory.
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    Carcases and Viscera Inspected:—
    Animals Inspected.Regional Slaughter-house.
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    SUMMARY OF CARCASES INSPECTED AND CONDEMNED.
    Cattle.Sheep and Lambs.Pigs.
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    Premises and Occupations which can he Controlled by By-Laws and Regulations.
    Premises.
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    Diseases of Animals Acts and Orders. During the year Orders were issued as under:— Anthrax Order, 1938.
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    Food and Drugs Act, 1938. The number of samples taken for analysis under the provisions of this Act from 1st January to the 31st December was 163, as follows:—
    Samples analysed.Samples unsatisfactory.
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    Samples analysed.Samples unsatisfactory.
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    Samples analysed.Samples unsatisfactory.
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    FACTORIES. THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937. 1. INSPECTIONS FOR PURPOSES OF PROVISIONS AS TO HEALTH. Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
    Premises.Number of
    Inspections.Written Notices.Occupiers Prosecuted.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    2. DEFECTS FOUND.
    Particulars.Number of Defects.
    Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES. (Section 111 of Act of 1937).
    Nature of Work.Instances.Notices served.Prosecution
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE. INFANT WELFARE.
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    Health Visitors. During the year the Health Visitors have made 15,217 visits to homes, as follows:—
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    TABLE 7. ATTENDANCES, EXAMINATIONS, etc.. 1942.
    Leyton Green.Park House.All Centres.
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    The attached table gives some idea of the work carried out under this heading :—
    Exspeotant Mothers.Children.
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    Artificial Sunlight Treatment.
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    Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
    No. of Cases Notified.Treated At Home. In Hosp.Vision Unimpaired.Vision Impaired.Total Blindness.Deaths.
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    Infant and Foetal Mortality. The following figures show the variations in the infantile and neo-natal mortality rates and in the number of stillbirths during the last five year period.
    Year.Births.Deaths underMortality Rates per 1,000 Live BirthsStillbirths.
    1 year.4 weeks.Infantile.Neo-natal.
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    TABLE 8. Infantile Mortality, Year 1942—Ages.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Under 1 Week.1—2 Weeks.2—3 Weeks.3—4 Weeks.Total under 4 Weeks.4 Weeks and under 3 Months.3 Months and under 6 Months.6 Months and under 9 Months.9 Months and under 12 Months.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
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    TABLE 9. Infantile Mortality During the Year 1942—Wards.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Leyton.Lea Bridge.Central North.Central South.Forest.Leyton-stone.Grove Green.Harrow Green.Cann Hall.Wan-stead Slip.Ward not known.Total Deaths under 1 Year.
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    Summary, Year 1942.
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    Ante-Natal Clinics— Attendances.—During 1942, the attendances were:—
    First Attendances.Subsequent Attendances.Total.
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    Puerperal Pyrexia. Twenty-six cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified during the year.
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    Post-Natal and Gynaecological Clinic. The following figures show in statistical form the attendances during 1942 :—
    Leyton Green.
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    The disposal of these cases was as follows:—
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    The following are the main conditions which have been found on examination :—
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    Record of Cases attended by Council Midwives, 1942.
    Midwives (8) employed by
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    SCARLET FEVER.
    Year.Cases Notified.Deaths.Case Fatality per cent.
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    DIPHTHERIA.
    Year.Cases Noticed.Deaths.Case Fatality per cent.
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    ARTIFICIAL IMMUNISATION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA. Immunisation by Private Medical Practitioners.
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    1942. The figures refer only to children who have finished—or failed to complete—the full course of innoculations during the year. Children who had commenced—but had not yet completed—the course at the end of the year will be shown in the report for next year.
    Under 2 yrs.2-5 years.6-10 years.10-15 years.Total.
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    During 1942 two Leyton children, who had been immunised previously, wero notified to be suffering from diphtheria. The following table gives in summary form the information regarding these cases.
    Age.Sex.Date of Immunisation .Schick Test Negative.Date of Notification.Swab Results.
    T Throat.
    N=Nose.
    E = Ear.
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    TUBERCULOSIS. Notifications.—One hundred and four patients were notified for the first time in 1942 as suffering from tuberculosis. The number was made up as follows:—
    Males.Females.Total.
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    The following is a statement of particulars appearing in the Register of Notifications of Cases of Tuberculosis for the year ended 31st December, 1942 :—
    Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.TOTA L
    M.F.Total.M.F.Total.
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    The following table gives particulars regarding the new eases which have occurred during the year:—
    Age Periods.New Cases.
    Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
    M.F.M.F.
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    Institutional Treatment. During 1942 the following Leyton patients were sent to sanatoria or other institutions for the treatment of Tuberculosis:—
    Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.
    Males.Females.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE No. 10. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1942.
    DISEASE.At All AgesUnder 11-22-33-44-55-1010-1515-2020-3535-4545-6565 and up.
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    TABLE 11. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1042.
    DISEASE.Total.Ley ton.Lea Bridge.Central North.Centra] South.Forest.I.eyton-stone.Grove Green.Harrow Green.Cann Hall.Wan-stead Slip.Removed to Hospitals.
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    SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE. GOVERNMENT EVACUATION SCHEME. Assuming a continuing decline in the school roll, an approximate roll as at 31st March, 1942, would be 11,900. Estimated figures showing the present distribution (December, 1942) of these children are given below:—
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    ROUTINE MEDICAL INSPECTION. A.—Routine Medical Inspection. Number of Inspections in the prescribed groups.
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    The Findings of Medical Inspection. Number of Individual Children found at Routine Medical Inspection to require Treatment (excluding Defects of Nutrition, Uncleanliness and Dental Diseases).
    Group.Number of Children.Percentage of Children found to require treatment.
    Inspected.Found to require treatment.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    Cleanliness Surveys in Individual Schools.
    School.Number of Examinations.Number Cautioned.Number Excluded.
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    The following table shows that it is not due to the increase in scabies cases, though with the fear of scabies in mind, manv persons with very slight skin conditions who would not have attended the clinic previously, now come for advice.
    Total M inor Ailment cases.Scabies.Impetigo.Other Skin Conditions.
    No.%No.%No.%
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    Rutttrn of Defects found by Medical Inspection in the Yeah ended 31st Decembeb, 1942.
    Detect or Disease.Routine Inspections.Special Inspections.
    Number requiring Treatment.Observation.Number requiring Treatment.Observation.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
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    The following table shows in statistical form the results of school dental inspection in individual schools and over the whole area.
    School.Number inspected.Number referred for treatment.Number accepting treatment.Percentage of acceptances.
    Boys.Girls.Boys.Girls.
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    E xaminations.
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    Artificial Sunlight Clinic.
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    AURAL CLINIC. School Cases.
    Nature of Disease.Still under treatment.Recommended Hospital treatment.Recommended Special School.Discharged as cured.Discharged as improved.Discharged as no treatment required.Discharged as left district.Discharged as left school.Totals.
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    As the result of examination these 100 children were classified as follows :—
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    The number of individual children fed under the Authority's arrangements during 1942 was :—
    Ordinary Meals.Milk Meals.
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    Number of meals supplied :—
    Ordinary Meals.Milk Meals.
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    The following table shows in statistical form the average heights and weights (inches and lbs. respectively) of " intermediate " and " leaver " groups during the last five years :—
    Group.Date.Boys.Girls.
    No. examined.Av. Ht.Av. Wt.No. examined.Av. Ht.Av. Wt.
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    Number of Code Group Inspections :—
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    b. Other Inspections.
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    c. Children Found to Require Treatment. Number oi' individual children found at Routine Medical Inspection to require treatment (excluding defects of Nutrition, Uncleanlineas and Dental Diseases).
    Group.For Defective Vision (excluding Squint).For all other ConditionsTotal.Fercentage of children found to require Treatment.
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    TABLE II. Classification of the Nutrition of Children Inspected during the Year in the Routine Age Groups.
    Age Groups.No. of Children Inspected.A. (Excellent).B. (Normal).C. (Slightly Subnormal).I). (Bad).
    No.%No.%No.%No.%
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    TABLE III.— Return of Defects Treated during the Year ended 31st December, 1942. TREATMENT TABLE. Group 1. —Minor Ailments (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see Table V).
    Disease or Defect.Number of Defects treated or under treatment during the year.
    Under the Authority's Scheme.Otherwise.Total.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    TABLE III.— contd. Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as mlnor allments.— group I.).
    Defect or Disease.Number of Defects dealt with.
    Under the Authoritj's Scheme.Otherwise.Total.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    TABLE III— conta. Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose akti Throat.
    Number of Defects.Received Other Forms of Treatment.Total Number Treated.
    Received Operative Treatment.
    Under the Authority's Scheme in Clinic or Hospital.By Private Practitioner or Hospital, apart from the Authority's Scheme.Total.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
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    TABLE IV. Dental Inspection and Treatment
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    TABLE V.
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    TABLE VI. Blind and Deaf Children.
    (1) At a Public Elementary School.(2) At an Institution other than a Special School(3) At no School or Institution.(4) Total not receiving suitable Education.
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    TABLE I.—Returns of Medical Inspections, a. Routine Medical Inspections.
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    Children Found to Require Treatment.
    Group.Number of Children.Percentage of Children found to require treatment.
    Inspected.Found to require treatment.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    TABLE II. Classification of the Nutrition of Children Inspected during the Year in the Routine Age Groups.
    Age Groups.No. of Children Inspected.A. (Excellent).B. (Normal).C. (Slightly Subnormal).D. (Bad).
    No.%No.%No.%No.%
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    TABLE III.—Return of Defects Treated during the Year. TREATMENT TABLE. Group I.—Minor Ailments (excluding Uncleanliness).
    Disease or Defect.Number of Defects treated or under treatment during the year.
    Under the Authority's Scheme.Otherwise.Total.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    TABLE III.— contd. Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as mlnor ailments.—group I.).
    Defect or Disease.Number of Defects dealt with.
    Under the Authority's Scheme.Otherwise.Total.
    (1)(2)(3)(4)
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    Total number of children for whom spectacles were prescribed—
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    TABLE IV. Dental Inspection and Treatment.