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Block Scheme.
An area comprising 35 Blocks from Union Street in the
north to New Kent Road and St. Georges Road in the south, and
bounded to the east by Bermondsey and to the west by Lambeth
was investigated and all infestations treated.
In the cases where business premises employed Servicing
Companies, arrangements were made whereby the Servicing Companies
stopped up their treatment, at the same time as we were working
in a particular area. Co-operation from these services has been
very good.
TREATMENT & BATHING STATION. KING JAMES STREET . Annual Return
of the work of the Station for the year ending 29th. December,
1946.
The year under review shows a slight decrease in the total
number of treatments given in the Mens and Womens Bathing Section
and a slight increase in the Childrens Section. The total
treatments were 12,308 in 1945 and 11,978 in 1946.
The routine method of treatment for Scabies has been
maintained during the year and all cases have been requested to
attend for medical examination after the second bath. The
Medical Officer of Health has held 49 medical sessions and
examined 1,191 cases, and secondary ailments following scabies
have been treated under his direction until discharged.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE .
This section shows some increase, the number of Scarlet
Fever cases kept at hone owing to shortage of Hospital Accommodation
having risen from 58 in 1945 to 84 in 1946. Most of
the home cases were of a very mild form and the Increase in
numbers cannot be traced to the spread of infection due to
home treatment.
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