South Shields Research Articles

Children and Poverty

MR. GOODFELLOW accordingly points out that sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis must be followed by real enterprise to remove the poverty of the patient. Infant mortality figures confirm this effect of the last war on Tyneside. In 1911-13, Newcastle, Tynemouth, South Shields and Gateshead were all below the infant mortality average for English county boroughs. By 1914-16, as a result of increased industrial effort without proper safeguards, these four Tyneside boroughs had infant mortality rates much higher than English county boroughs as a whole and while from 1911-13 to 1935-37 in the country as a whole infant mortality was reduced by practically 50 per cent, the Tyne black spots showed no such improvement. These figures again are related to overcrowding. In 1925, one baby in three in Tynemouth was born in a one-room apartment, and even in 1933 one baby in five suffered this fate although in 1938 the rate had fallen to one in 20. The figures are again related to the work of infant welfare centres. In Leeds, for example, with an infant mortality rate of 64 per 1,000 births, the rate fell to 21 among babies attending the clinics.

The occurrence of a Leech (Trocheta subviridis) in an Allotment

In April of this year (1922) a specimen was sent to the Agricultural Department, Armstrong College, by Mr S. Giles of South Shields, along with a note explaining that it had been found “down in the first spit of the soil” in one of a group of allotments there. It was obviously a specimen of a leech, but the specimen was submitted later, to Mr John Ritchie, the Museum, Perth, who kindly identified the species as Trocheta subviridis, and who mentioned that “this gives so far as I am aware, a more northern habitat than hitherto recorded. See Parasitology, vol. III, p. 182.”

John Stackhouse

Journal Article John Stackhouse Get access H. T. Giles H. T. Giles 111, Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-X, Issue 218, 17 June 1922, Page 469, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-X.218.469f Published: 17 June 1922

Vicar of Thirsk

Vicar of Thirsk Get access Haydon T. Giles Haydon T. Giles 111, Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-IX, Issue 174, 13 August 1921, Page 130, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-IX.174.130g Published: 13 August 1921

Covill

Journal Article Covill Get access Haydn T. Giles Haydn T. Giles 111, Ravensbourne Tey, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-VIII, Issue 151, 5 March 1921, Page 197, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-VIII.151.197d Published: 05 March 1921

Francis Lherondell

Francis Lherondell Get access Haydn T. Giles Haydn T. Giles 111 Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-VII, Issue 130, 9 October 1920, Page 289, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-VII.130.289g Published: 09 October 1920

Darnell and Thorp

Journal Article Darnell and Thorp Get access Haydn T. Giles Haydn T. Giles 111 Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-VI, Issue 107, 1 May 1920, Page 170, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-VI.107.170d Published: 01 May 1920

South Shields: Vicars of St. Hilda's

South Shields: Vicars of St. Hilda's

Johnson and his circle

Johnson and his circle Get access Allan. Y Annand Allan. Y Annand 113, Park Terrace, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s11-I, Issue 12, 19 March 1910, Page 227, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s11-I.12.227b Published: 19 March 1910

The effect of the closure of schools on measles in south shields during the last quarter of 1906

The effect of the closure of schools on measles in south shields during the last quarter of 1906

Scarlet fever in the county borough of south shields

Scarlet fever in the county borough of south shields

CHARGE FOR COLLECTION OF LIBRARY RATE

CHARGE FOR COLLECTION OF LIBRARY RATE SEPT. A. PET SEPT. A. PET Public Library,South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Library, Volume s1-9, Issue 1, 1897, Pages 326-b–327, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s1-9.1.326-b Published: 01 January 1897

On some singular nodules in the Magnesian Limestone

In the quarry of Magnesian Limestone near Wormald Green there occur some singular nodules of an impure silicate of lime, which appear to be of sufficient interest to be worth putting on record. They seem to form a connecting link between the Permian beds of Yorkshire and those of Durham. I am informed by Mr. R. Howse, of Newcastle, that simular nodules are found at South Shields, and at Fulwell, near Sunderland, an analysis and description of which appeared in the Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, by Mr. Robert Calvert Clapham, and read Dec. 23, 1861,* The following is a copy of the analysis of the nodules from the Trow Rocks: — | Silica | … | … | .. | 78.00 | || | Alumina | … | … | .. | 1.50 | | Peroxide of Iron | | … | … | — | | Carb. Magnesia | | … | … | 9.20 | | ,, Lime | | … | … | 11.10 | | | | | | | | | | Total… | … | 99.80 | Upon this he remarks “It is therefore not a flint (properly so called), but a mineral consisting of silica, and carbonate of lime and magnesia, which may yet require to be named. It is possible that it may have existed as some organic substance, of which the present mineral may retain some of the original form. “Another specimen of a similar substance, but much more flinty in its appearance, found at Fulwell, and sent me by Mr. J. W. Kirkby, approaches much more nearly to the composition of flint in the quantity of silica, but contains a greater percentage of other matters than that mineral. It is composed as ...

Prosecution at South Shields for sending scarlet fever convalescents to a board school

Prosecution at South Shields for sending scarlet fever convalescents to a board school

Sir Hector McLean and blair of Castlehill

Journal Article Sir Hector McLean and blair of Castlehill Get access Johnson Baily Johnson Baily 1The Vicarage, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s7-VIII, Issue 192, 31 August 1889, Page 169, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-VIII.192.169d Published: 31 August 1889

Old song

Old song Get access Johnson Baily Johnson Baily 1The Vicarage, South Shields Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s7-V, Issue 127, 2 June 1888, Page 434, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-V.127.434g Published: 02 June 1888

IV.—The Excavations at South Shields, Durham

It has long been known that the Romans had a camp at South Shields. The entrance into the Tyne was strongly protected by them. On the north bank of the river was a fort where Tynemouth Priory now stands, and another at Blake Chesters, about two miles to the west of Tynemouth. On the south bank were the camps of South Shields and Jarrow.

On the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali

THIS volume forms a fitting sequel to the first volume of Prof. Lunge's valuable work (noticed in NATURE, vol. xx. p. 263) on the alkali manufacture. The praise we bestowed upon the earlier volume may without stint be applied to this. Clearness and conciseness in style remarkable in a foreigner, accuracy and fulness in the description of both old and hew processes, and admirable woodcuts of apparatus and manufacturing plant, constitute the chief merits of this by far the best treatise extant on the most important branch of chemical industry. The value of works on technical science, as well, we may also add, of the teaching of such subjects, depends not only on a sound knowledge of the scientific principles upon which the manufactures are based, but likewise upon a thorough acquaintance with technical minutiae and the special details of construction and operation, the due observation of which is necessary for the manufacture'S success. Either one of these conditions maybe fulfilled by a host of authors, but to find both fully developed, as is the case with Prof. Lunge, is rare. Manufacturers themselves, many of whom may be fully competent to the task, are, for obvious reasons, not given to make known the details of their successful manufacture. Nor is the professional chemical engineer likely to do more than describe the most common and well-known processes. Dr. Lunge enjoys the great advantage Of haying had manufacturing experience, if not along the whole line, at least over a very large portion of his subject; and to this he now adds that of a position in which every motive urges him to impart his knowledge unreservedly to his readers. On the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid and Alkali. By George Lunge, Professor of Technology in the Zurich Polytechnic School, formerly Manager of the Tyne Alkali Works, South Shields. Vol. ii. (London: Van Voorst, 1880.)

The Palmyrene Monument Discovered at South Shields

(1878). The Palmyrene Monument Discovered at South Shields. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 489-495.

On the “Results of the Recent Exploration of the Roman Station at South Shields.”

On the “Results of the Recent Exploration of the Roman Station at South Shields.”