Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
This page requires JavaScript
64
Several of the houses from, which cases had arisen, were
visited, a refuse shoot in the vicinity was inspected, and a ditch
at the back of the houses on one side of the street was inspected.
No obvious causal factor could be found in these directions.
The question of unemployment was then gone into, and failing
an explanation on this ground, the nett income per head was
worked out by Miss Lewis, Secretary of the Walthamstow
Branch of the Invalid Children's Aid Association. Four of the
families showed a nett income of less than 6s. per head.
Mr. West, your Council's Housing Manager, then pointed out
that these houses had been allotted about 6 years ago to families
which had previously occupied only one room. He suggested that
in view of the fact that only three of the fourteen children were
under 6 years of age in 1933, it appeared probable that the underlying
cause was that the children had been born and had been
previously brought up under grossly overcrowded conditions.
The following table shows the particulars regarding the above
cases:—
Age | Referred fo Convalescen Home Treatment | r Diagnosis, t | Father's Employment. | Nett income after deducting rent. | Nett income per head per week after deducting rent. | Number of children |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
s d | s d | |||||
1 | Orthopaedic Clinic | Bowed Tibiae | Employee | 73/7 | 14/9 | 3 |
7 | Tuberculosis | Deb. after S.F. | Employee | 36/5 | 3/6 | 8 |
6 | Officer | ,, „ Dysentery | „ | |||
5 | ,, and Anaemia | „ | ||||
13 | Rheumatism Clinic | General Debility and Nervous Exhaustion. | Employee | 50/7 | 10/1 | 3 |
6 | Hospital | Nervous Debility | Employee: | 73/7 | 14/9 | 3 |
8 | Hospital | Persistent Enuresis | Employee | 39/8 | 9/11 | 2 |
12 | A.S.M.O. | Anaemia and General Debility | Employee | 53/1 | 7/7 | 5 |
11 | Tuberculosis Officer | Catarrh | Employee | 62/5 | 5/2 | 9 |
10 | Hospital | Poor General Health, Loss of Weight | Employee | 53/5 | 5/4 | 7 |
8 | A.S.MO. | Anaemia | Employee | 40/7 | 6/9] | 3 |
1 | Hospital | Bickets. Malnutrition | Employee | 55/3 | 6/11 | 6 |
7 | Orthopaedic Clinic | Flat Foot | Employee | 50/- | 10/- | 3 |
12 | A.S.M.O. | Debility and Anaemia | Unemp. 1 month | 20/9 | 2/7 unemp. 5/11 employee | 6 |