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Willesden 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
- Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 64
- Tables
- 97
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VITAL STATISTICS
Registered Live Births: Male Female Total -
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The water for filling the baths is obtained from the mains supply. It is regularly chlorinated and plant of sufficient capacity to insure breakdown conditions is installed at each bath. The capacity of each bath and the time taken for the whole of the water to pass through the filters and treatment plant is as follows:—
Capacity (gallons) Time taken for water to pass through filters, etc. (hours) -
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256 samples were taken, 22 of which were unsatisfactory (see Public Health Laboratory Service, page 5).
Swimming bath Samples taken Satisfactory Unsatisfactory -
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No. of old people using the laundry service
On register 1.1.59 New Cases Died Admitted to hospital Recommenced after discharge from hospital On register 31.12.59 -
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Inquests held on Willesden residents
1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 -
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TABLES Table 1 DEATHS
Causes: Males Females Total -
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Table 2 Infant Mortality and Stillbirths: Willesden and England and Wales
Year Population Registered Births Willesden Deaths under 1 year Willesden Infant death rate Willesden Infant death rate England and Wales Registered Stillbirths Willesden Stillbirth rate Willesden Stillbirth rate England and Wales -
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Table 3 Infant Mortality: —by Wards
Ward Number of deaths Total 1957-59 Rate 1957-59 1957 1958 1959 -
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Table 4 Deaths by Social Class
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Table 5 Infant Mortality—Causes (Based on Registrar General's Figures)
1936-1939 1940-1945 1946-1950 1951-1955 1959 Deaths Rate Deaths Rate Deaths Rate Deaths Rate Deaths Rate Neonatal 1-12 months Total -
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Table 6 Premature births and deaths (deaths in brackets)
Year Births in home Births in hospital Home births transferred to hospital Total -
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Table 7 Premature births by wards
Ward Premature births notified Percentage of live births in brackets -
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Table 8 Infant Mortality : Congenital Malformations
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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES Table 9 Bacteriological examination of milk, ice cream and water Milk examinations —260
Schools (pasteurised) Dealers' premises Total Pasteurised T.T. pasteurised Sterilised -
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Table 10 Uncleanliness and Scabies
New cases treated Attendances Scabies Lice and nits Total Scabies Lice and nits Total -
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HEALTH EDUCATION Table 11 Talks
No. visited Total No. of talks Subjects Total attendances No. of attendances -
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Table 12 Mothercraft
No. of clinics Total No. of classes Visits by health visitors -
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Table 13 Infectious diseases
1959 (1958 in brackets) Notified Confirmed Deaths -
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Table 14 Whooping Cough Cases : Willesden and England and Wales
Year Cases confirmed Case rate per 1,000 population Children vaccinated in Willesden Willesden England & Wales Willesden England & Wales -
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Table 15 Poliomyelitis
0—15 years 15 years and over Total -
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BRONCHITIS, CANCER OF LUNG AND TUBERCULOSIS Table 16 Tuberculosis: Notified cases and deaths
Year Population New cases Deaths Cases on register Pulmonary Non- pulmonary All forms Pulmonary Non-pulmonary All forms Pulmonary Non-pulmonary All forms -
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Table 17 Tuberculosis: Case rate and death rate
Year Population New cases Rate per 100,000 population Deaths Rate per 100,000 population Pulmonary Non-pulmonary All forms Pulmonary Non-pulmonary All forms -
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Table 18 Bronchitis: Deaths
Year Males Females Total Rate per 100,000 population -
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Table 19 Cancer of the lung and bronchus: Deaths
Year Males Females Total Rate per 100,000 Population -
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Table 20 Tuberculosis: New cases and deaths by age groups (Deaths in brackets)
Age groups New cases Respiratory Non-respiratory Male Female Male Female -
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Table 21 Tuberculosis 1959: Cases by wards
Ward Pulmonary cases Non-pulmonary cases Pulmonary rate per 100,000 Combined rate per 100,000 -
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Table 22 Tuberculosis 1957—1959: Cases by wards
Ward Pulmonary cases Non-pulmonary cases Pulmonary rate per 100,000 Combined rate per 100,000 -
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Table 23 Tuberculin Testing, 1953-1959
Children under 5 years School children (5 years) School leavers Tested Positive %. Positive Tested Positive % Positive Tested Positive % Positive -
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Table 24 Tuberculosis: B.C.G. vaccination of school leavers, 1953-1959
No. tested and found negative No. vaccinated -
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Table 25 Tuberculosis: Notification of deaths
1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1954-59 -
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Table 26 Demolition and Closing Orders Housing Act, 1957 (Sections 16 and 18)
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Table 27 Overcrowding
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Table 28 New Dwellings, 1959
Houses Flats Rebuilds -
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Table 29 Notices served under Public Health Act, 1936 and Housing Act, 1957
1959 1958 -
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Table 30 Inspections carried out under Public Health Act, 1936, Housing Act, 1957, Rent Act, 1957, Clean Air Act, 1956, Infectious Diseases and Miscellaneous Inspections
Public Health Act -
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Table 31 Inspection of Factories, Outworkers Premises and Food Premises
1959 1958 No. inspected Inspections made No. inspected Inspections made -
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Table 32 Rent Act, 1957 Certificates of Disrepair
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Table 33 Summary of nuisances abated and of improvements effected Water supply and water service
1959 1958 -
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Table 34 Monthly deposits in tons per square mile
Power Station Acton Lane Taylors Lane Neasden Site Barretts Green Road Minet Gardens Ascot Park Neasden Lane Press Road Wembley Trading Estate Town Hall -
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Table 35 Examination of sulphur by lead peroxide method (milligrams of SO 3 year day per 100 square centimetres)
Site January February March April May June July August September October November December -
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Table 36
(a) Verminous premises: -
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Table 37 Types of food premises
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Table 38
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Table 39 Food premises: Defects remedied
Defects Outstanding at 31.12.58 Found during the year Total Remedied during year Outstanding at 31.12.59 -
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Table 40 Food premises: Registration
Premises on register 31.12.58 Applications received Applications granted Applications refused Premises removed from register during 1959 Total on register at 31.12.59 -
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Table 41 Food unfit for human consumption
Meat Tinned milk 381 tins -
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Table 42 Food: Samples taken
Article No. of samples Unsatisfactory -
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Table 43 Dairies—Registrations and Licences
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Table 44 Classification of Factories (Figures for 1949 in brackets)
Power Factories Non-Power Factories Total -
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Table 45 Grouping of Factories
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Table 46
Names of Firms employing 200 to 300: 10— -
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Table 47 On register and inspections
No. on register Inspections Written notices -
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Table 48 Defects found
Found Remedied Referred To H.M. Inspector By H.M. Inspector -
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Table 49 Outworkers
Nature of work No. of outworkers in August list No. of instances of work in unwholesome premises Notices served -
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Table 50 Ante-natal Clinics
Clinic Sessions New cases Attendances Average attendance per session Antenatal Postnatal Antenatal Postnatal -
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Table 51 Births Hospital and domiciliary
1959 1958 -
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Table 52 Mothercraft
Clinic Sessions New cases Total attendances Average attendance per session -
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Table 53 Relaxation Classes
Clinic Sessions New cases Total attendances Average attendance per session -
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Table 54 Child Welfare Clinics
Clinic Sessions First attendances (Under 1 year) Attendances Total attendances Seen by doctor Average attendance per session Under 1 year 1—2 years 2—5 years -
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MIDWIFERY SERVICE Table 55 Midwives' Clinics
Sessions New Cases Total attendances Average attendance -
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Table 56 Midwives—Administration of analgesics
Domiciliary midwives employed by local health authority -
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Table 57 Domiciliary Births
Attended by midwives Visits Visits made to mothers discharged from hospitals before 14th day Domiciliary cases where infant wholly breast fed at 14th day Dr. not booked Dr. booked Dr. present at delivery Dr. not present at delivery Dr. present at delivery Dr. not present at delivery Mothers Visits -
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Table 58 Medical Aid
1959 1958 -
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Medical Aid
For Mother For Child -
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Table 59 Visits made by Health Visitors
Year Expectant Mothers Children under 1 year Children 1—2 years Children 2—5 years Tuberculosis Households General First Total First Total Total Total Total Total as health visitor Total as school nurse -
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Table 60 Special cases referred by General Practitioners for:—
Care of children Care of elderly persons Family problems General advice Home help Laundry service w.v.s. -
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Table 61 Establishment: Health Visitors
Whole time equivalent as at: 31.12.58 31.12.59 -
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HOME NURSING Table 62 Work: Home Nurses
New Cases Visits Cases on register at end of year Male Female Male Female -
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Table 63 Establishment: Home Nurses
Nurses 1.1.59 31.12.59 -
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SMALLPOX Table 64 Vaccination
Under 1 year 1 year 2—4 years 5—14 years 15 years and over Total -
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DIPHTHERIA Table 65 Immunisation
Age at 31.12.59 Under 1 1 2 3 4 5—9 10—14 Totals -
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HOME HELPS Table 66 Cases: Home Helps
Cases receiving help at No. of new cases helped during No. of cases receiving help at 1.1.59 1.1.58 1959 1958 31.12.59 31.12.58 -
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Table 67 Staff: Home Helps
Position at Appointments during Resignations during Position at -
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Table 68 Day Nurseries: Attendances
Day Nursery Approved places Children on register at 31.12.59 Attendances for the year Average daily attendances 0-2 years 2-5 years 0-2 years 2-5 years 0-2 years 2-5 years 0-2 years 2-5 years -
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Table 69 Day Nurseries: Infectious Diseases Number of Cases
Nursery Measles Scarlet Fever Chicken Pox Dysentery Mumps German Measles Whooping Cough -
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Table 70 Day Nurseries Waiting List Position at: —
Nursery 31.12.58 30.6.59 31.12.59 -
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Table 71 Day Nurseries: Priorities
Nursery Unsupported Mothers Medical reasons Bad Housing Total on Register -
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Table 72 Day Nursery Staff Establishment
Establishment Position as at: 31.12.59 31.12.58 -
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Table 73 Medical Inspection of Pupils attending Maintained Primary Schools and Secondary Schools (including Nursery and Special Schools)
Year of birth (1) Number of pupils inspected (2) Physical condition of pupils inspected Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Number (3) % of column 2 (4) Number (5) % of column 2 (6) -
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Table 74 Individual Pupils found at periodical Medical Inspections to require treatment (excluding dental diseases and infestation with vermin)
Year of birth (1) For defective vision (Excluding squint) (2) For any of the other conditions in table (3) Total individual pupils (4) -
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Table 75 Defects Found by Medical Inspection
* Periodic inspections Special inspections Entrants Leavers Others Total (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) (a) (b) -
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Table 76 Treatments : School Health Service
Number of cases known to have been dealt with -
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Table 77 Orthoptics—Cases seen at Pound Lane Clinic
Total No. of cases seen No. of new cases Placed on operation waiting list Discharged cured Failed to attend Orthoptic Cosmetic -
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Table 78 Audiometry : Children Tested Routine
Age group 1st Tests Re-tests Failures Total Both ears One ear Right Left -
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Table 79
Summary of Failures to pass Audiometer Test -
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Table 80 Speech Therapy
Clinic or School No. of cases dealt with during the year -
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Table 81 Infestation with Vermin
1959 1958 -
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Table 82 Medical Examination of Teachers
1959 1958 -
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Table 83 County Council Day Special Schools — Admissions
County District in which Children reside No. of new recommendations received during the year No. of children admitted during the year No. of children on waiting list at 31.12.59 -
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Table 84 The Educational Sub-Normal Education Act, 1944 — Sections 57 (3), 57 (4) and 57 (5)
1959 1958 -
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Table 85 Return of Handicapped Pupils (Year Ended 31st December , 1959) Ascertainment Distribution (as at last day of Year)
Category No. of ascertained cases known 1st day of Year No. of New Cases ascertained during year No. of ascertained Cases known last day of Year In Special Day Schools In Special Residential Schools In Maintained Primary and Secy. Schools In Independent Schools Not at School Total B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. B. G. -
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CHILD GUIDANCE T able 86
Waiting list at 1.1.1959 Total cases seen by Psychiatrist New cases seen by Psychiatrist Other cases seen by Psychiatrist New cases referred Cases not requiring to be seen by Psychiatrist Waiting list 31.12.59 -
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Table 87
Main Symptoms Cases -
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SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE Table 88 Inspection and Treatment (a) Inspection
Age Groups Inspected Required Treatment Referred for Treatment 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 -
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PRIORITY DENTAL SERVICE Table 89
Expectant Mothers Nursing Mothers Children under 5 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 -
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Table 90 Chiropody—Defects
Condition Expectant and Nursing Mothers Boys Girls Total 0—5 yrs. School 0—5 yrs. School