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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
Hammersmith 1914
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1914
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Owing to the stringent instructions of the Educational
Department of the London County Council most of
the cases, as usual, occurring among pupils at the
The following chart shows the number of Deaths from Measles per
100,000 inhabitants since 1900.
schools of the London County Council were reported
to me. A strict system of disinfection was
carried out in accordance with the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and very little
opposition was met with. The disinfection in the case