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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 1943
Annual report (abridged) on the Health of the Borough for the year 1943
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page 11
Disinfection and Disinfestation
The number of articles dealt with or destroyed at Camley
Street on account of verminous conditions and infectious diseases
were:-
Destroyed - 220
Disinfected or
Disinfested - 12,146 of which 2,738 were A.R.P.
The figures set out below show the number of Houses, Rooms, etc., dealt with after infectious diseases or following complaints of vermin:-
| No. of cases | No. of houses | No. of rooms sprayed or fumigated | A. R. P. premises sprayed or fumigated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 8 | 8 | 9 | — |
| Diphtheria | 91 | 91 | 77 | — |
| Dysentery | 11 | 11 | 9 | 1 |
| Enteric fever | — | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 43 | 48 | 35 | — |
| Measles | 24 | 24 | 9 | — |
| Pneumonia | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-myelitis | 5 | 5 | 3 | — |
| Puerperal fever | 4 | 4 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal pyrexia | l | 1 | — | — |
| Scabies | 177 | 168 | 6 | — |
| Scarlet fever | 479 | 476 | 369 | — |
| Tuberculosis | 120 | 120 | 113 | — |
| Vermin | 460 | 458 | 554 | 7 |
| Other diseases | 122 | 122 | 39 | — |
Irish Labourers
3y an arrangement with the Ministry of Health, Irish
labourers temporarily recruited into the country for employment
were billet ad at the Royal Veterinary College and where found
necessary were cleansed and their clothing disinfested. The
number so dealt with amounted to 11,704 over a period of ten
months - January to October 1943. This work was all carried
out as night work by Sanitary Inspectors and Disinfectors
assisted by a number of A.R.P. personnel.
Following October other arrangements were made by the
Ministry of Health.