Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1905
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Month, | Inspections in connection with Cases. 1 | No. of Persons Removed. 2 | Total No. of Rooms Disinfected. 3 | No. of Disinfections by Request. 4 | No.of Cases in which Shelter Used. 5 | No. of Persons accommodated in Shelter. 6 | No. of Articles of Bedding, &c., Disinfected. 7 |
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The Diseases, in respect of which Disinfection was carried out, were as follows:—Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Continued Fever, Small
Pox; also Phthisis, Measles, &c., by request of relatives. One landing and a cab and a van were disinfected in addition to column (3).
It was found necessary to destroy 101 articles of bedding at the station.