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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
City of Westminster 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Teachers or children attending at the following schools were notified to be suffering from illness during 1903 :—
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charing Cross Road Board School | — | 8 | 1 | — |
| Horseferry Road Board School | 1 | 1 | 2 | — |
| James Street Board School | — | 2 | 2 | — |
| Pulteney Board School, Berwick Street | — | 18 | 6 | 1 |
| St. George's Road Board School | — | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Vere Street Board School | — | 1 | — | _ |
| Millbank Board School | — | 5 | 1 | — |
| Tower Street Board School | — | — | — | 1 |
| Great Wild Street Board School | — | 2 | — | _ |
| Brompton Higher Grade School | 4 | — | — | |
| Christ Church School, Buckingham Gate | _ | 2 | 1 | — |
| Holy Trinity School, Vauxhall Bridge Road | — | 2 | — | — |
| St. Anne's National School | — | 22 | 5 | — |
| St. Anselm's School, Davies Street | — | 1 | — | — |
| St. Barnabas's School, Pimlico Road | — | 1 | — | 4 |
| St. Clement Danes School | — | 4 | 1 | — |
| St. Gabriel's School, Glasgow Terrace | — | 15 | 5 | — |
| St. George's Higher Grade School, South Street, Park Lane | — | 3 | 4 | — |
| St. James-the-Less School, Upper Garden Street | 3 | 2 | 1 | — |
| St. John's School, Tufton Street | 3 | 3 | 3 | — |
| St. Mark's, Balderton Street | — | — | 1 | — |
| St. Martin's Northern School, Castle Street | — | 1 | — | — |
| — | 2 | — | ||
| St. Mary's, Johnson Place | — | 2 | — | — |
| St. Matthew's, Great Peter Street | 3 | 4 | 4 | — |
| St. Michael's, Buckingham Palace Road | — | 4 | 7 | — |
| St. Patrick's, Great Chapel Street | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Street | — | 3 | — | 1 |
| St. Peter's and St. James's, Great Windmill Street | — | 29 | 3 | — |
| St. Stephen's, Rochester Row | — | 2 | 2 | — |
Disinfection.
During 1903, 1,039 rooms in 709 houses were disinfected by the
Staff of the Department, and 27,766 articles were subjected to steam
disinfection in the City Disinfecting Stations. In addition a number of
rooms and their contents were disinfected to the satisfaction of medical
men by private firms. One hundred and twenty-six articles were
destroyed by fire at the request of the owners. £1 l1s. 1ld. was paid
in respect of articles destroyed.
Disinfection was carried out after all cases of the notifiable diseases,
except as regards erysipelas (in which disinfection was only performed
when the circumstances of the case required it), and also after 33 cases
of measles, 3 mumps, 6 chicken-pox, 1 whooping cough, 7 cancer.
1 influenza, and 35 phthisis. Sixteen books were disinfected; books
belonging to the public libraries are now treated by the librarians, a
copy of each certificate of infectious disease being sent to each.