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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

Bethnal Green 1907

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1907 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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REPORT OF THE WORK
done by the
Woman Sanitary Inspector,
DURING YEAR 1907.
To the Medical Officer of Health—
SIR,
I beg to submit to you a report of the work done by me in
this Borough during the year 1907.

Table: The inspections made (which numbered in all 3,473) may be classified as follows :—

The inspections made (which numbered in all 3,473) may be classified as follows :—

Workshops347
After Confinement831
Re-inspections1069
Infants' Deaths262
Illnesses942
Special15

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Early in the year some slight change was made in my duties—the
inspection of outworkers' premises was exchanged for that of
houses where cases of Measles and Chicken Pox occur. The fact
may perhaps here be mentioned that in every case, whatever may
have been the reason for calling, I have been well received, and
the information required willingly supplied,