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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
Hackney 1905
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1905
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7. No child should be allowed to go to school or any other public
institution from a bouse in which there is a case of scarlet fever, or
scarlatina, until the complete recovery of the patient and the
disinfection of the house, etc.
8. No child should be allowed to attend school who has been
exposed to the infection of scarlet fever, or scarlatina, until seven
days after exposure, and not even then if there are signs of the
disease having been contracted.
J. King Warry, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
June, 1905.