[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of] page 43

City of Westminster 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Occupations of Adult Females where separately stated.

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Occupations of Adult Females where separately stated.

Milliners	2	Paper sorter	1
Dressmakers, sempstresses	24	Cigarette maker	1
Tailoresses	12	Upholsteress	1
Laundresses	11	Clerk	1
Charwomen	33	Furniture dealer	1
Cooks	9	Packer	1
Other servants	43	Incandescent mantle maker	1
Lodging-house keepers	2	Flower sellers	2
Waitresses	4	Hawkers	5
Wigmaker	1	Dancer	1
Staymakers	2	Seed sorter	1
Book folders, sewers	2	Unknown.,	77
Printer's ruler	1	Unknown.,	77

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It may be thought that where medical men were in attendance
they would see that proper precautions were being taken, but I am
surprised to find, on an analysis of the cases as shown in the
accompanying table, that the importance of such precautions does not
seem to be impressed on the patients by private practitioners to
anything like the extent it is by hospital staffs. It emphasises the
fact that treatment in a sanatorium, even for a few weeks, had a
distinctly educational influence. "The inmate learnt the reasons for
observing certain precautions, and for following certain rules and regulations.

Table: He became acquainted with those conditions which were favourable to health, and those which were antagonistic to it, and carried back the knowledge to his home."

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He became acquainted with those conditions which were favourable to health, and those which were antagonistic to it, and carried back the knowledge to his home."

Nature of Precautions.	In Sanatorium only.			In- or Out-Patients of other Consumption Hospitals.
Nature of Precautions.	Number of Cases.	Percentage.		Number of Cases.	Percentage.
I. Include care of sputum	15	68.2	⁹¹	21	61.7	73 4
II. Do not include care of sputum	5	22.8		4	11.7
III. No precautions	2	9		9	265
Totals	22	—		34	—
Nature of precautions.	In General Hospitals.			Non-hospital Cases.
Nature of precautions.	Number of Cases.	Percentage.		Number of Cases.	Percentage.
I. Include care of sputum	16	4.57	71	⁹	23.1	46.2
II. Do not include care of sputum	9	25.7		9	23.1
III. No precautions	10	28.6		21	53.8
Totals	35	-		39	—

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City of Westminster 1904

Table: Occupations of Adult Females where separately stated.

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Table: He became acquainted with those conditions which were favourable to health, and those which were antagonistic to it, and carried back the knowledge to his home."