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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 London 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: TABLE XX.Effects Disinfected, from 1st January to 31st December, 1906.

TABLE XX.

Effects Disinfected, from 1st January to 31st December, 1906.

Month.Reason for Disinfection.Hospital Bedding, &c.Total Number of Disinfections.
Chicken.pox.Cholera.Continued Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Erysipelas.Measles.Plague.Relapsing Fever.Scarlet Fever.Small.pox.Precautionary Measure.
January3......2.....................38
February3.........9..................518
March......1...5...1......1......614
April1...16............11...616
May212...4...1...1......819
June1.........6...3......1......617
July1....1......1............1...711
August1.........3......1............712
September1...2...4...1......6...1318
October......1......11......3......612
November......1...3............4......412
December.........12...21...5......415
Totals13182442921222165172

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ANTHRAX.
On the 14th June, it was reported to me that a man had been admitted to
the London Hospital suffering from Anthrax.
He resided in Poplar, and had been employed in the St. Katharine's Dock
loading hides into the s.s. " Alice," bound from London to Hull.
These hides were ascertained to have gone from St. Olave's Wharf to
St. Katharine's Dock in a van.
The facts were reported to the Medical Officer of Health for Hull, and to
the Board of Agriculture.