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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1899
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899
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floors, furniture and bedding are again cleansed when death takes
place, and the walls of the rooms occupied by the patient are
rubbed down with dough.
If the patient has been removed to hospital, the owner or
agent is forthwith communicated with if the house be dirty.
No objection to cleansing and disinfecting being offered, the
walls are stripped and then washed, along with the floors, furniture,
&c., with a solution of chlorinated lime, 11/2 ounces to the gallon.
The tenant also washes the bedding thoroughly.
This work is superintended by the Health Visitors in the
central portion of the City and by the Sanitary Inspectors in the
outer districts.
System of
Notification
adopted at
Brighton.
A system of voluntary notification has been adopted
at Brighton since the middle of January, 1899, and
it has been recently decided to pay the same fees to
medical practitioners as for compulsorily notifiable infectious
diseases.
During the year one hundred cases were notified at Brighton principally from local public institutions.
| Workhouse | 84 |
| County Hospital | |
| Poor Law Medical Officers | |
| Dispensary Medical Officers | |
| Private Medical Practitioners | 16 |
| 100 |
A Municipal Laboratory is provided for the early diagnosis
of infectious disease including phthisis, and forty-seven such tests
were made during the year 1899.