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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
Fulham 1900
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1900
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infected, and as the relatives of the unrecognised case or cases
have also been exposed to infection, it is certainly necessary, if
partial closure is to be effective, to also exclude the children living
in the same houses as the children belonging to the infected class.
By this immediate action, I believe that the risk of the invasion
of the whole school is materially lessened, and the subsequent
closure of the whole school possibly obviated.
J. CHARLES JACKSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department.
Town Hall, Fulham, S.W.,
November 26th, 1900.