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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 1910

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910

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Table: ERYSIPELAS.Notifications to the number of 164 were received, distributed as follows:—

ERYSIPELAS.

Notifications to the number of 164 were received, distributed as follows:—

Under 1 year1-1010-20-30-40-50-60-Total all ages.
Males1981811101159
Females3312816192717105
Totals41220924303728164

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Disinfection is done after Erysipelas only on request and not
as a routine measure.
There were three deaths due to the disease, one in a child under
1 year, the other two in adults.
SMALL-POX.
No case of Small-pox was notified in Finsbury in 1910. The
names and addresses were received of two persons who had
recently been in contact with the disease. These were kept
under observation for 16 days and were well at the end of this
period of supervision.
MEASLES.
This disease is not compulsorily notifiable. Notice of cases is
generally received by the Public Health Department from the
Education Department of the London County Council, from
Schools inside and outside the Borough, from School Visitors, from
Medical Men, from other Borough Councils, from Registrars of
Births and Deaths, from Relieving Officers, Sanitary inspectors,
Superintendents of Dwellings and from Parents and Guardians.
In this way, notices of 898 cases were received in 1910, as compared
with 430 in the year before.
Although measles is not a notifiable disease, the London County
Council have made Sections 60—65, 68—70, 72—74, of the Public