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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
Bethnal Green 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX M (1). Particulars respecting work of Disinfectors and Shelter.
| Month. | No. of Rooms Disinfected. | P.T. and Phthisis Cases. | Verminous Rooms. | Articles of Bedding Destroyed. | Articles of Bedding Disinfected at Station. | No. of Articles Disinfected in Formalin Chamber. | No. of Cases in which Shelter was used. | No. of Persons accommodated at Shelter. | No. of hours for which Shelter was occupied. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60 | 18 | — | 7 | 1237 | Books, Roots, Dresses, Fancy Material, &c. 1,050 | — | — | — |
| February | 94 | 31 | 4 | 23 | 1405 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| March | 71 | 17 | — | 18 | 1351 | — | — | — | |
| April | 49 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 1656 | — | — | — | |
| May | 64 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 4388 | — | — | — | |
| June | 98 | 19 | 26 | 1 | 915 | — | — | — | |
| July | 88 | 16 | 31 | — | 1405 | — | — | — | |
| August | 91 | 21 | 20 | 176 | 3423 | — | — | — | |
| September | 113 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1678 | — | — | — | |
| October | 96 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1652 | — | — | — | |
| November | 75 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1023 | — | — | — | |
| December | 68 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 1975 | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 967 | 238 | 104 | 254 | 22,108 | 1,050 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Fourteen Men from various Common Lodging Houses in the Borough were battled and had their
clothes disinfected at Station.