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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
Bermondsey 1919
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1919
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Tuberculosis Dispensary.
From the Annual Report of the Dispensary there were 616
new patients examined; of these 207 were definitely suffering
from or suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis in some form.
The number of visits paid by patients to the dispensary was
8,117, and the number of visits paid to the homes of patients
was 675 by the Medical Officer, and 2,391 by the nurses.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
In Table XI. of the Appendix will be found particulars of the
inspections of factories and workshops, and in the following table
particulars regarding the trades and persons employed in connection
with workshops. There were 386 workshops on the Register
in 1919, including bakehouses, of which there were 64 in use,
the total is 400.
OUTWORKERS.
There were 296 outworkers on the Register at the end of
1919. 69 lists were sent tin by firms in this Borough employing
outworkers. Table VI. of the Appendix shows the various trades
followed by outworkers in this district.