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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Brompton Hospital and 16 patients l'eceived this form
of treatment at the City of London Hospital, having
148 refills between them, and 1 patient had 8 refills at
Colindale Hospital.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1925.
No action was taken under these regulations during
the year.
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Measles.
During the year 1,606 cases of Measles came to my knowledge from the following sources:—
| Schools | 987 |
| L.C.C. Special Hospitals | 445 |
| Other Hospitals | 9 |
| Medical Practitioners | 15 |
| Health Visitors | 89 |
| Sanitary Inspectors | 26 |
| Others | 35 |
| 1,606 |
All cases were visited, either by a Health visitor
or the District Sanitary Inspector, according to the age
of the patient.
Four hundred and sixty-five patients were removed
to L.C.C. Special Hospitals, and in 15 cases nursing
assistance was provided by the Council.
Forty-five cases proved to be not measles, one case
being diagnosed in hospital as Scarlet Fever.
One hundred and twenty-eight cases of "suspected
measles" were reported through the school organisation,
but only 43 proved to be measles.