London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Lambeth 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Disinfecting Department
3,502 rooms and 10,728 articles of bedding were disinfected during
the year, among them being the rooms and articles used by the
534 cases of various forms of infectious disease taken to hospital;
340 certificates of disinfection were issued, and 115 library books
dealt with from the 5,420 premises visited during the year. The
dean van was used regularly for the delivery of stores to the day
nurseries and sometimes to the Welfare Centres.