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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
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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91
Smallpox.
Scarlet
lever.
Diphtheria
Typhoid
Fever.
Erysipelas.
Total.
Clothing trades:—
(a) Business in family
affected
—
10
4
2
2
18
(b) Business in other parts
of house
17
6
1
7
3L
(c) Persons from infected
houses employed in
clothing business
elsewhere
-
41
6
6
1
54
—
68
16
9
10
103
Other home workers trades
—
—
—
—
-
—
In connection with Laundries there were cases in each of the above
three classes:—
(a) (b) (c)
In Receiving Shops — — —
Mangling only Scarlet Fever, 1 — —
Washing, Ironing, &c. — Diphtheria, 1 Scarlet Fever, 1;
Diphtheria, 1.
There are 48 Laundries in which washing is done, besides which
there are a number of private houses in which mangling only is done.