[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1959. (Based on the Registrar-General's Figures.)

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TABLE 1. ESTIMATED HOME POPULATION, MID-1959, BY WARDS.

Ward	Dwellings at Mid-1959	Estimated Population Mid-1959

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They were distributed as shown in the following table.

Ward	Live Births	Birth Rate per 1,000 Population	Stillbirths	Stillbirth Rate per 1,000 total births

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Out of 771 total births, 605 took place in the following hospitals and nursing homes:

	Live	Still	Total

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TABLE 2. BIRTHS, 1959—DOMICILIARY AND OTHERS—BY WARDS.

Ward	Born in District			Born outside District			Grand Total
Ward	In Hospitals and Nursing Homes	In Private Dwellings	Total	In Hospitals and Nursing Homes	In Private Dwellings	Total	Grand Total

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TABLE 3. BIRTH AND DEATH RATES FOR CARSHALTON, 1922-1959.

Year	Population (Registrar-General's)	Birth Rate	Death Rate	Infant Mortality Rate	Maternal Mortality Rate

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TABLE 4. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS—1959.

	England and Wales		Carshalton

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COMPARATIVE HEALTH STATISTICS, 1934-59.

	Crude Death Rate (Civilian) per 1,000 population		Infant Mortality per 1,000 live births		Maternal Mortality (excluding abortion) per 1,000 total births
Year	England and Wales	Carshalton	England and Wales	Carshalton	England and Wales	Carshalton

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WARD DEATH RATES AND MEAN AGE AT DEATH, 1959.

Ward	Deaths	Death Rate (crude)	Mean Age at Death

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DEATHS FROM CANCER OF THE LUNGS, 1934-59.

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CANCER DEATHS—WARD DISTRIBUTION, 1959.

Ward	Cancer Deaths			Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population
Ward	M	F	Total	Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population

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TABLE 5. CANCER DEATHS, 1959.

Group	Site Affected	Male	Female	Total

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The figures which follow show the saving of life which has been effected since 1939 from what was once one of the worst scourges which in days gone by took such a heavy toll of young adults:

Year	Deaths from Tuberculosis	Death Rate per 1,000 Population	Year	Deaths from Tuberculosis	Death Rate per 1,000 Population

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TABLE 6. INFANT MORTALITY-WARD DISTRIBUTION.

Ward	Infant Deaths	Rate per 1,000 Live Births

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TABLE 7. INFANT MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1959. Deaths Classified as to Cause and Age at Death.

Cause of Death	Under 1 week	1-2 weeks	2-3 weeks	3-4 weeks	Total under 4 weeks	4 weeks and under 3 mths.	3 mths. and under 6 mths.	6 mths. and under 9 mths.	9 mths. and under 12 mths.	Total deaths under 1 year

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TABLE 8 —CAUSES OF DEATH DURING THE YEAR 1959 —B y A ge and S ex

No. Causes of Death	0	-	1	-	5	-	15	-	25	-	35	-	45	-	55	-	65	-	75	-	All Ages
No. Causes of Death	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	Pns.
All Causes Total	12	7	-	3	2	-	1	1	4	2	10	5	28	19	84	50	82	64	93	116	316	267	583

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Quantity and quality were adequate during the year. The following details indicate the results of the routine testing carried out by the Company and are supplied by courtesty of the resident chemist.

Sample	Total No. of Bacteriological Examinations	Total No. of full Chemical Analyses	No. and % of samples showing Coli-Aerogenes in 100 ml. (excluding B. Coli 1)		No. and % of samples showing B. Coli present in 100 ml. of sample (Type 1)		Total No. Coli-Aero-genes Organisms in 100 ml. of sample
Sample	Total No. of Bacteriological Examinations	Total No. of full Chemical Analyses	No.	%	No.	%	Total No. Coli-Aero-genes Organisms in 100 ml. of sample

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During the year, two lots of bedding were destroyed and three hundred and sixteen premises were treated for the destruction of vermin and insect pests as follows:—

Infestation	Property Treated by C.U.D.C.				Property Treated		Total
Infestation	C.U.D.C. Property	S.C.C. Property	L.C.C. Property	Privately Owned Property	By L.C.C.	By Owners	Total

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Deposit Gauges

Gauge	Total Rainfall (in inches)	Total Solids. Tons per sq. mile
Gauge	Total Rainfall (in inches)	Highest Monthly Reading	Lowest Monthly Reading	Average Monthly Reading

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Smoke and Atmospheric Sulphur Dioxide

Month	Smoke (Milligrams per 100 cubic metres)			S.O,₂. (Parts per 100 million)
Month	Highest Daily Reading	Lowest Daily Reading	Average Daily Reading	Highest Daily Reading	Lowest Daily Reading	Average Daily Reading

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With regard to sewers, one maintenance treatment was carried out in May. The results are shown in the following table, together with those for the three previous years:—

	May Treatment				November Treatment
	1956	1957	1958	1959	1956	1957	1958	1959

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The following table gives a summary of the registers:—

	Employees			Premises
	Males	Females	Total	Premises

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1. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health (including inspections made by the Public Health Inspectors).

Premises		Number on Register	Number of
Premises		Number on Register	Inspections	Written Notices	Occupiers Prosecuted
(1)		(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)

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(If defects are discovered at the premises on two, three or more separate occasions they are reckoned as two, three or more "cases.")

Premises	Number of cases in which defects were found				Number of cases in which prosecutions were instituted
	Found	Remedied	Referred
	Found	Remedied	To H.M. Inspector	By H.M. Inspector
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)

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O utwork (Sections 110 and 111)

Nature of Works	Section 110			Section 111
Nature of Works	No. of outworkers in Aug. list required by Sect. 110(1) (c)	No. of cases of default in sending lists to the Council	No. of prosecutions for failure to supply lists	No. of instances of work in unwholesome premises	Notices served	Prosecutions
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)

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Council schemes in various stages of preparation were as follows:—

Site No.	Site	Type of Dwelling	No.

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The known position in respect of statutory overcrowding at the beginning and end of the year was as follows:—

Ward	Dwellings overcrowded at 31/12/58	Dwellings found overcrowded during 1959	Dwellings de-crowded during 1959	Dwellings remaining overcrowded at 31/12/59	Overcrowded cases remedied during 1959
Ward	Dwellings overcrowded at 31/12/58	Dwellings found overcrowded during 1959	Dwellings de-crowded during 1959	Dwellings remaining overcrowded at 31/12/59	Formal Action	Informal Action	Total

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Figures obtained in this way over the last 10 years were as follows:—

Year	New Cases	Cases at Year End	Year	New Cases	Cases at Year End

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The number of Milk Distributors registered under the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 is 13. Designated licences issued during the year were as follows:—

Designation	Number of Distributors Holding Licences	No. of Licences in force on 31/12/59

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Classification of the milk samples and the results of the tests are as follows:—

Designation under which sold	No. of samples	Methylene Blue Test		Phosphatase Test		Turbidity Test
Designation under which sold	No. of samples	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory	Satisfactory	Unsatisfactory

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The record of these sample since the inception of this system of bacterio- logical grading in 1947 is as follows:-

Year	No. of samples	Grade
Year	No. of samples	1	2	³	4

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The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or unwholesome and unfit for human food were surrendered and destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent them from being used for human food:—

	lbs.	ozs.		lbs.	ozs.

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TABLE 9. INSPECTION OF FOOD PREMISES AND ACTION TAKEN.

Nature of Business	Number of premises	Number of premises registered under Section 16 of Food & Drugs Act	Number of inspections made	Sanitary accommodation						Food storage and preparation rooms							Accumulations removed
Nature of Business	Number of premises		Number of inspections made	Repaired	Cleansed and/or decorated	Lighting provided	Wash-basins provided	Water supply provided	Wash your Hands Notices	Repaired	Cleansed and/or decorated	Lighting provided	Ventilation provided	Washing facilities for food and equipment provided	First-aid equipment provided	Accommodation for clothing provided	Accumulations removed

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The number of persons recorded as having received successful vaccination during the year was as follows:—

Age at 31st December, 1959 i.e. born in	Under 1 yr 1959	1-4 yrs 1955-8	5-14 yrs 1945-54	15 yrs & over 1944 and earlier	Total

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In addition, the following unsuccessful attempts at vaccination were made:—

Age at 31st December, 1959 i.e. born in	Under 1 yr 1959	1-4 yrs 1955-8	5-14 yrs 1945-54	15 yrs & over 1944 & earlier	Total

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TABLE 10. SCARLET FEVER—DISTRIBUTION OF CASES, 1959.

1959	Ward								Total
1959	St. Helier North	St. Helier South	St. Helier West	North-East	Northwest	Central	South-East	Southwest	Total

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TABLE 11. SCARLET FEVER—MULTIPLE CASES, 1959.

Ward	No. of houses in which occurred				Total Houses	Total Cases
Ward	1 Case	2 Cases	3 Cases	4 Cases	Total Houses	Total Cases

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In 1959, 801 resident children received a primary course of treatment as follows:—

Age at 31/12/59 i.e. born in year	Under I year 1959	1 year 1958	2 years 1957	3 years 1956	4 years 1955	5-9 years 1950-54	10-14 years 1945-49	Total under 15 yrs.

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The following table shows the immunisation state of the local child population at the 31st December, 1959 :—

Age at 31/12/59 i.e. Born in Year	Under 1 1959	1-4 1955-1958	5-9 1950-1954	10-14 1945-1949	Under 15 Total

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The estimated percentage of children immunised at each year end since 1935, when the Council's scheme was inaugurated and the incidence of diphtheria in the resident population is shown in the following table:—

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TABLE 12.— MEASLES WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1959 (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

1959	Ward
1959	St. Helier North	St. Helier South	St. Helier West	North-East	Northwest	Central	South-East	South-West	Total

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TABLE 13. WHOOPING COUGH—WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

1959	Ward								Total
1959	St. Helier North	St. Helier South	St. Helier West	North-East	Northwest	Central	South-East	Southwest	Total

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The number of individuals vaccinated during the year was as follows:—

	No. who received their 2nd injection	No. given a 3rd injection

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The number vaccinated from the beginning of the scheme up to the 31st December, 1959 was as follows:—

	No. given 2 injections	No. of those in the previous column given a 3rd injection

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TABLE 14. CASES OF NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, 1959.

Disease	Waddon	Bletchingley	Cuddington	Wandle Valley	Queen Mary's	St. Helier	Totals

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TABLE 15. INFECTIOUS DISEASES—NOTIFICATIONS, DEATHS AND DISTRIBUTION. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

Disease	Cases notified	Case rate per 1,000 population	Deaths	Distribution by Wards								No. of cases removed to Hospital	Percentage of cases removed to Hospital
Disease	Cases notified	Case rate per 1,000 population	Deaths	St. Helier North	St. Helier South	St. Helier West	North-East	Northwest	Central	South-East	Southwest	No. of cases removed to Hospital	Percentage of cases removed to Hospital

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TABLE 16. INFECTIOUS DISEASES—Notification by Age Groups, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

Disease	Total Cases Notified												Total Cases at All Ages
Disease	Under 1 year	1-2	2-3	3-4	4-5	5-10	10-15	15-20	20-35	35-45	45-65	65 and over	Total Cases at All Ages

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TABLE 17. MONTHLY INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

Disease	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Total

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The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the year numbered 70 classified as follows:—

Males		Females

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TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. C ases on R egister at 31 st D ecember , 1959.

Ward	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Total	Incidence per 1,000 population
Ward	Males	Females	Males	Females	Total	Incidence per 1,000 population

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The number of tuberculous persons who died during the year was 7 distributed by age groups as follows:—

Age, Years	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Total
Age, Years	Males	Females	Males	Females	Total

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DEATHS DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS, 1959.

Ward	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Death Rate per 1,000 population	Mean age at Death
Ward	Male	Female	Male	Female	Death Rate per 1,000 population	Mean age at Death

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TABLE 18. TUBERCULOSIS. New Cases, Age and Sex Distribution and Manner of Admission to Register, 1959.

Age Group Years	Primary Notifications "A"				Cases transferred from other Districts				Cases brought to notice other than by Notification or Transfer				Total New Cases
	Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary		Pulmonary		Non-Pulmonary
	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.	M.	F.

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The following rainfall was recorded at the Council's Pumping Station in Buckhurst Avenue.

Rainfall 1959	Amount in ins.	Rainfall 1959	Amount in ins.

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SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1959. (Based on the Registrar-General's Figures.)

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED HOME POPULATION, MID-1959, BY WARDS.

They were distributed as shown in the following table.

Out of 771 total births, 605 took place in the following hospitals and nursing homes:

TABLE 2. BIRTHS, 1959—DOMICILIARY AND OTHERS—BY WARDS.

TABLE 3. BIRTH AND DEATH RATES FOR CARSHALTON, 1922-1959.

TABLE 4. COMPARATIVE STATISTICS—1959.

COMPARATIVE HEALTH STATISTICS, 1934-59.

WARD DEATH RATES AND MEAN AGE AT DEATH, 1959.

DEATHS FROM CANCER OF THE LUNGS, 1934-59.

CANCER DEATHS—WARD DISTRIBUTION, 1959.

TABLE 5. CANCER DEATHS, 1959.

The figures which follow show the saving of life which has been effected since 1939 from what was once one of the worst scourges which in days gone by took such a heavy toll of young adults:

TABLE 6. INFANT MORTALITY-WARD DISTRIBUTION.

TABLE 7. INFANT MORTALITY DURING THE YEAR 1959. Deaths Classified as to Cause and Age at Death.

TABLE 8 —CAUSES OF DEATH DURING THE YEAR 1959 —B y A ge and S ex

Quantity and quality were adequate during the year. The following details indicate the results of the routine testing carried out by the Company and are supplied by courtesty of the resident chemist.

During the year, two lots of bedding were destroyed and three hundred and sixteen premises were treated for the destruction of vermin and insect pests as follows:—

Deposit Gauges

Smoke and Atmospheric Sulphur Dioxide

With regard to sewers, one maintenance treatment was carried out in May. The results are shown in the following table, together with those for the three previous years:—

The following table gives a summary of the registers:—

1. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health (including inspections made by the Public Health Inspectors).

(If defects are discovered at the premises on two, three or more separate occasions they are reckoned as two, three or more "cases.")

O utwork (Sections 110 and 111)

Council schemes in various stages of preparation were as follows:—

The known position in respect of statutory overcrowding at the beginning and end of the year was as follows:—

Figures obtained in this way over the last 10 years were as follows:—

The number of Milk Distributors registered under the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 is 13. Designated licences issued during the year were as follows:—

Classification of the milk samples and the results of the tests are as follows:—

The record of these sample since the inception of this system of bacterio- logical grading in 1947 is as follows:-

Continued from previous page...

The following quantities of food found to be unsound, diseased or unwholesome and unfit for human food were surrendered and destroyed or so disposed of as to prevent them from being used for human food:—

TABLE 9. INSPECTION OF FOOD PREMISES AND ACTION TAKEN.

The number of persons recorded as having received successful vaccination during the year was as follows:—

In addition, the following unsuccessful attempts at vaccination were made:—

TABLE 10. SCARLET FEVER—DISTRIBUTION OF CASES, 1959.

TABLE 11. SCARLET FEVER—MULTIPLE CASES, 1959.

In 1959, 801 resident children received a primary course of treatment as follows:—

The following table shows the immunisation state of the local child population at the 31st December, 1959 :—

The estimated percentage of children immunised at each year end since 1935, when the Council's scheme was inaugurated and the incidence of diphtheria in the resident population is shown in the following table:—

TABLE 12.— MEASLES WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1959 (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

TABLE 13. WHOOPING COUGH—WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

The number of individuals vaccinated during the year was as follows:—

The number vaccinated from the beginning of the scheme up to the 31st December, 1959 was as follows:—

TABLE 14. CASES OF NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, 1959.

TABLE 15. INFECTIOUS DISEASES—NOTIFICATIONS, DEATHS AND DISTRIBUTION. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

TABLE 16. INFECTIOUS DISEASES—Notification by Age Groups, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

TABLE 17. MONTHLY INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1959. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton)

The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the year numbered 70 classified as follows:—

TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. C ases on R egister at 31 st D ecember , 1959.

The number of tuberculous persons who died during the year was 7 distributed by age groups as follows:—

DEATHS DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS, 1959.

TABLE 18. TUBERCULOSIS. New Cases, Age and Sex Distribution and Manner of Admission to Register, 1959.

The following rainfall was recorded at the Council's Pumping Station in Buckhurst Avenue.