[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    comparison of the principal groups of diseases is shown in the following summary: — Calton Mile End White vale City Immaturity, ... 38 49 57 38 Diseases of Respiratory System, ... 56 42 34 25 Diseases of Digestive System, 26 28 26 14 Diseases of Nervous System, 8 4 2 6 Tuberculous Diseases, 5 8 3 1 Infectious Diseases, 18 12 10 15 Syphilis, 1 3 — 1 Overlaying, ... 3 1 — 1 Other Violence, — — 1 All Other Causes, ... 6 10 o O 5 Totals, ... 161 157 135 107 The disparity in the immaturity rates is generally due to the greater mortality among infants in these wards from congenital causes. Diseases of the respiratory system and digestive system are both very much higher in the three wards, the rate in Calton being double that for the City. Infectious diseases in Calton and Mile-End were also more fatal because of measles and whooping-cough, despite the fact that the epidemic of measles had already passed to other parts of the City towards the end of the previous year. CHILD WELFARE SCHEME. The process of replacing inadequate Child Welfare Centres by more suitable premises progressed a step further during 1928 when the Child Welfare Committee approved of the erection of a new Centre in Anderston district. The building will be situated in ground between Richard Street and William Street, Anderston, which has been cleared of slum tenements, and will cost approximately £4,500. The accommodation provided, as shown on the plan on the opposite page, is somewhat similar to that of the other Centres which have been built during the past few years. The plan shows a waiting-room, 40 feet by 20 feet, entered from the court at the corner of Richard Street and Paterson Street by a lobby, G feet wide. On either side of the lobby, and entered from the waiting-room are a 12-foot by 9^-foot office, with dispensary, and a 12-foot by 11-foot kitchen, wash-up with maids’ closet and public lavatory. To the west side of the waiting room there is a corridor, 7 feet w . ’ clerest0I7 windows which open for ventilation. Access is gamed from the corridor to the weighing room, 18 feet bv 16 feet and consulting room, 16 feet by 12 feet, which rooms are'in direct communication with each other. At the end of the corridor are the stafi lavatory and the dental room, 16 feet by 9 feet, with direct access to the treatment room, which is 24£ feet'by 134 feet.