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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
St Pancras 1942
Annual report (abridged) on the Health of the Borough for the year 1942
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Cleansing Station
The total number of attendances in 1942 was 9,959, as
compared with 6,149 in 1941, the increase being attributable
to a larger number of scabies cases.
Number of attendances during the year were:-
Women (& St.Pancras Ex St.Pancras
Men children School School Total
under 5) Children Children
Vermin 824 78 1,552 416 2,870
Scabies 1023 2,484 2,686 896 7.089
1,847 2,562 4,238 1,312 9,959
Disinfection
The number of articles disinfected or destroyed at Camley
Street on account of verminous conditions and infectious diseases
are as follows:-
Destroyed - 61
Disinfected - 12,581
Figures showing the number of disinfections carried out after Infectious diseases are set out below:-
| DISEASE | No. of cases | No. of houses | No. of rooms contents disinfected or destroyed | No. of rooms sprayed and fumigated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 17 | 17 | 3 | 17 |
| Diphtheria | 114 | 114 | 81 | 83 |
| Dysentery | 27 | 27 | M | 27 |
| Enteric fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 47 | 47 | 42 | 47 |
| Measles | 19 | 19 | 3 | 19 |
| Pneumonia | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Puerperal fever | 12 | 12 | 9 | 4 |
| Scabies | 711 | 6l6 | — | |
| Scarlet fever | 182 | l6l | 181 | 174 |
| Tuberculosis | 134 | 134 | 134 | 116 |
| Vermin | 409 | 382 | 88 | 409 |
| Other diseases | 190 | 179 | 62 | 17 |
| Totals | 916 |
Housing
Work under the Housing Act 1936 has been at a standstill
owing to the war.