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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

Greenwich 1893

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1894

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Table: Table No. 12 HOUSES INSPECTED AND INQUIRIES MADE IN CONNECTION WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES, FROM MARCH 25th, 1893, TO MARCH 25th, 1894.

Table No. 12 HOUSES INSPECTED AND INQUIRIES MADE IN CONNECTION WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES, FROM MARCH 25th, 1893, TO MARCH 25th, 1894.

Number of houses inspected and inquiries made820
„ re-visits3,283
Total4,103

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On April 1st, 3rd, and 4th, 1893, 23 rooms and 2 staircases at the Marsh
Lane Board School were disinfected during the Small Pox Epidemic.
May 23rd and 26th, 1893, 142 blankets belonging to the East Greenwich
Congregational Mission were disinfected after the Small Pox Epidemic.
October 16th, 1893, a number of premises visited by inmates of Greenwich
Union during the outbreak of Infective Diarrhoea were disinfected.
69 rooms have been cleansed, after disinfection, by the Board's men.
ARTHUR E. BACHE,
Sanitary Inspector.