London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1905
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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In eleven of these houses (marked with*) the rooms were dirty,
or verminous, or both; in ten others they were clean, and the
child had become infested with vermin elsewhere. One case, the
last, appears to have been reported in error.
Infectious Disease in Schools.—During 1905 there occurred 354 cases of notifiable infectious disease in School children and 916 cases of non-notifiable disease, as follows:—
| SCHOOLS. | NOTIFIABLE. | NON-NOTIFIABLE. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Chicken Pox. | Allother. | ||
| Provided. | ||||||||
| Albion Place | 10 | 2 | 1 | 12 | — | 1 | 4 | 30 |
| Ann Street | 9 | 5 | — | 18 | 20 | 10 | 20 | 82 |
| Baltic Street | 7 | 2 | — | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 22 |
| Bath Street | 56 | 7 | — | 5 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 100 |
| Bowling Green Lane | 11 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 13 |
| Central Street | 17 | 8 | — | 38 | 10 | 14 | 45 | 132 |
| Chequer Street | 17 | 13 | - | 22 | — | 3 | 16 | 71 |
| Compton Street | 16 | 3 | — | 30 | — | — | 35 | 81 |
| Hugh Mvddelton | 21 | 6 | — | 74 | 44 | 61 | 59 | 265 |
| Moreland Street | 9 | 3 | — | 34 | 4 | 29 | 8 | 87 |
| Risinghill Street | 10 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 62 |
| St. John Street | 2 | 1 | — | 20 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 45 |
| White Lion Street | 6 | 1 | - | - | — | — | — | 7 |
| Winchester Street | 4 | 2 | — | 1 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 71 |
| Non-Provided. | ||||||||
| Amwell Street | 20 | 5 | — | 13 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 79 |
| St. Barnabas | 5 | — | — | 11 | — | 3 | — | 19 |
| St. Joseph | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 7 |
| St. Luke | 39 | 5 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 5 | 52 |
| St. Mark | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| St. Mark, Old Street | 3 | — | - | — | — | — | 1 | 4 |
| S.S. Peter and Paul | 6 | 1 | — | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 29 |
| St. Thomas | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | 5 |
| Totals | 279 | 70 | 5 | 302 | 149 | 186 | 279 | 1270 |
We have received from the Education Department of the London
County Council 169 certificates respecting cases of infectious
disease relative to the exclusion of 305 children who had been in
contact with those infected. Owing to the prevalence of measles in
the Infants' Departments at St. Peter and St. Paul's School, Rosoman
Street, and at the Hugh Myddleton School, the Infants' class-rooms