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Willesden 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

Published
1940
Pages
32
Tables
17

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17 tables in this report

  • Page 3
    Table No.1.
    Number of Cases notified.
    19381939
  • Page 5
    The following table shows the demand for institutional confinement :— T able N o . 3.
    Years.Domiciliary Births attended by Midwives.Domiciliary Births attended by Doctors.Births in hospitals and nursing homes.Total Births notified. (Note—Notified not registered.)
  • Page 7
    T able N o . 4.
    Number inspected.Number Nitty or Verminous.Percentage Nitty or Verminous.
  • Page 7
    Table No. 5. Percentage of Nitty and Verminous individual children recorded upon routine cleanliness inspection at the Schools from year to year since 1914:—
  • Page 8
    Table No. 6. Medical and Dental Treatment—Attendances at Health Centres, 1939.
    Condition. (1)Mothers, and Children under Five.School Children. (8)Grand Total (Cols. 7 and 8). (9)
    Expectant Mothers. (2)Nursing Mothers. (3)Children under Five.Total (Cols. 2—5). (7)
    0—1. (4)1—5. (5)Total (Cols. 4 and 5). (6)
  • Page 9
    Table No. 7. Showing attendances at the Municipal Centres each year since 1913.
    Year.Mothers and Children under 5 years.School Children.Total.School for Mothers.Nursery.Miscellaneous.Grand Total.
    Medical.Dental.Total.Medical.Dental.Total.
  • Page 10
    Table No. 8.
    Primary Inspections.Re-Inspections.
  • Page 11
    Table No. 9. Cases in the M unicipal H ospital during the Y ear 1939.
    Diseases.No. in Hospital on 1-1-39.Admitted.Total under treatment.Discharged recovered.Died.Mortality per cent.Remaining on 31-12-39.
  • Page 12
    Table N o. 11. Sources of S pecimens examined 1939.
  • Page 18
    Tuberculosis in Willesden. The following table shows the number of cases of tuberculosis notified in Willesden during the past 10 years and the death rate per thousand of the population in each of these years from respiratory tuberculosis:—
    Year.Cases Notified.Death Rate of Respiratory Tuberculosis per 1,000 Population.
    Respiratory.Non-Respiratory.
  • Page 19
    The following table illustrates this fact:—
    Population of England and Wales.Respiratory tuberculosis— No. of notifications. New cases.Notification rate per 1,000 population.No. of deaths.Crude death rate per 1,000.Percentage of deaths to New notifications.
  • Page 21
    The 2,995 confinements were provided for as follows:-
    By the Borough Council.
  • Page 21
    Maternal Mortality. The following table gives the puerperal mortality per 1,000 live and still births for England and Wales and Willesden resnertivelv since 1928:—
    England and Wales.Willesden.
  • Page 22
    Particularly is the demand for hospital accommodation increasing as may be seen from the following table:—
    Year.Domiciliary Cases attended by Midwives.Domiciliary Cases attended by Doctors.Births in hospitals and nursing homes.Total Births notified.
  • Page 29
    Maintenance. The expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1939, was as follows:—
    £s.d.
  • Page 31
    Maintenance. The expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1939, was as follows:—
    £s.d.
  • Page 31
    The income for the year ended 31st March, 1939, was as follows:—
    £s.d.