Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900
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included four candidates for appointments, two hundred
and nineteen applicants for admission into the Sick and
Accident Society, of whom it was necessary to recommend
the non-acceptance of three; seventeen members of the
Society who were receiving sick or accident allowance and of
whose unfitness for work the Society desired to have further
medical evidence ; and one person claiming damages for alleged
injuries received whilst following his employment.
Appendix.
The Appendix contains a summary of the Sanitary Operations
of the Year and also a return shewing the number of cases of
each of the notifiable infectious diseases occurring in each street,
&c., in Battersea during the year 1900.
W. H. KEMPSTER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health,