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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 1911
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1911 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Staff required for dealing with outbreak.
For dealing with this outbreak and properly
following up the information which will be obtained
it is essential that each Medical Officer of Health
should be provided with an adequate staff, and the
Board trust that the Council will at once appoint
any additional temporary assistants (medical and
other) that may be required.
At the same time I am to enclose a copy of a
Memorandum which the Board's Medical Officer
has prepared on the subject of measles.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
H. C. MONRO,
Secretary.
To the Town Clerk,
Borough of Bethnal Green.
VARIOLA.
No death (decennial average 7).
Four cases of small-pox were notified and removed
to hospital where one of them was found to be
chicken-pox; this patient was re-vaccinated and sent
home. All the sufferers recovered, and indeed there
has been no death from small-pox in Bethnal Green
since 1904. Considerable anxiety was felt in February
owing to an outbreak of small-pox in the wards of a