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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
Camberwell 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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TABLE XII. Showing the Occupation of Males who died from Tuberculosis in 1924.
| Barmen | 2 |
| Blacksmith | 1 |
| Bookbinder | 1 |
| Boot repairer | 4 |
| Boot salesman | 1 |
| Box maker | 2 |
| Brass finisher | 1 |
| Bus driver | 2 |
| Cabinet makers | 2 |
| Carmen | 3 |
| Carpenters | 3 |
| Chef | 1 |
| Chemist | 1 |
| Clerk Civil Service | 2 |
| do. commercial | 17 |
| do. printers' | 2 |
| Coach trimmer | 1 |
| Compositors | 8 |
| Commercial travellers | 3 |
| Decorators | 5 |
| Dock labourers | 4 |
| Draughtsman | 1 |
| Electricians | 2 |
| Engineers | 5 |
| Engineer's storekeeper | 1 |
| Gas meter tester | 1 |
| Gas fitters | 2 |
| Gateman (railway) | 1 |
| Grainer | 1 |
| Hawkers | 4 |
| Iron moulder | 1 |
| Jeweller's assistant | 1 |
| Labourers (general) | 15 |
| Messengers | 4 |
| Motor mechanics | 4 |
| Musician | 1 |
| Music hall artists | 2 |
| Newspaper (job hands) | 2 |
| No occupation | 3 |
| Optician's improvers | 2 |
| Packers | 4 |
| Photographer | 1 |
| Piano repairer | 1 |
| Platelayer (railway) | 1 |
| Plumbers' assistants | 2 |
| Police constable | 1 |
| do. do. Ex | 2 |
| Porter (G.P.0.) | 1 |
| do. (fish market) | 1 |
| do. (general) | 2 |
| Postman | 1 |
| Printer's assistants | 5 |
| Rubber planter | 1 |
| School children | 6 |
| Steam crane driver | 1 |
| Steward (ship's.) | 1 |
| do. (club) | 1 |
| Stoker | 1 |
| Stone bottle maker | 1 |
| Tailor | 1 |
| Telephone fitter | 1 |
| Tennis racket polisher | 1 |
| Tram conductor | 1 |
| Tyre repairer, | 1 |
| Under school age | 11 |
| Undertaker | 1 |
| Vanguard | 1 |
| Warehouseman | 2 |
| Wine cooper | 1 |
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TABLE XIII. Showing the Occupation of Females who died from Tuberculosis in 1924.
| Bookkeeper | 1 |
| Book folder | 1 |
| Bottle washer | 1 |
| Charwoman | 1 |
| Cinema attendant | 1 |
| Collar examiner | 1 |
| Commercial clerks | 5 |
| Domestic servants | 4 |
| Embroiderer | 1 |
| Housewives and widows | 59 |
| Laundry women | 2 |
| Machinist | 1 |
| Music teacher | 1 |
| No occupation | 17 |
| Nurses | 2 |
| Packer | 1 |
| Perfumery dresser | 1 |
| School girls | 9 |
| Shop assistants | 4 |
| Shorthand-typists | 5 |
| Tailoress | 1 |
| Under school age | 5 |
| Waitress | 2 |
| Not classified | 11 |
| 137 |