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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

Shoreditch 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: infectious diseases and schools.In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases, or were residing in homes in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from the head teachers of the schools they attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the London County Council:—

infectious diseases and schools.

In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases, or were residing in homes in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from the head teachers of the schools they attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the London County Council:—

School.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.Measles.Chicken Pox.Whooping Cough.Mumps.Other Causes.Total.
Bath Street............1.........45
Brunswick Street (special).........52......11220
Brecknock (Blind)...............1.........1
Canal Road......12411035240131
Catherine Street......752222721782
Chatham Gardens......56402122820122
Chequer Street.........1...............1
Colebrook Row..................1......1
Coleman Street Ward......1......3.........4
Curtain Road......14845423535134
Dalston Central..................1......1
Daniel Street.........11............2
Globe Road........................11
Gopsall Street......164911115382267318
Haggerston Road......5126434111945190
Harnond Square......639107576330159461
Hanover Street.........1.........2...3
Hoxton Central......112......11217
Hoxton House......252893342621111339
Laburnum Street......10191928231495
London Fields.....................1...1
Maidstone Street......343714522353686395
Mowlem Street.........11............2
Napier Street......22109876459106386
Popham Road............1............1
Pritchards Road......1413131......32
Queen's Road Queen's Head Street.........12...............12
.........1...............1
Red vers Street......4204926224107
Roclielle Street......1142.........8
Rother field Street.........1.........1...2
St. Colomba's......11...............2
St. John's Church......61521121411382
St. John's Road......18695937383538294
St. Joseph's (R.C.)......1...2............3
St. Mark's.........91012141147
St. Monica's.........323...2......28
St. Paul's, Broke Road......71764531658
St. Peter's............2......035
St. Phillip's...............4.........4
Seawfell Street......2654413930378271
Scrutton Street......311244163787
Shap Street......15282211102458168
Shepperton Road.........3......53516
Shoreditch Technical.........1...............1
Somerford Street............1............1
Trinity Place......419433541130146
Virginia Road......66............113
Wenlock Road.........68265291826226
Totals4...2406161,1824974692701,0504,328