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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 1905

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

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Table: Copies of 442 certificates relating to teachers or children attending at the following schools notified to be suffering from illness during 1905, were sent to school teachers during 1905:—

Copies of 442 certificates relating to teachers or children attending at the following schools notified to be suffering from illness during 1905, were sent to school teachers during 1905:—

School.Small Pox.Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaEnteric Fever.
Charing Cross Road——1—
Horseferry Road—121
Buckingham Grate—21—
Pulteney—171—
St. George's Row—12—
Millbank—1011
Great Wild Street—42—
Brompton Higher Grade—18—
Christ Church—1——
Holy Trinity—7——
St. Anne's—253—
St. Barnabas—51—
St. Edward's, Dufour's Place—5—1
St. Gabriel's—8——
St. George's—6——
St. James the Less—5——
St. John's, Tufton Street—2——
St. Margaret's—8——
St. Martin's, Castle Street—1——
St. Mary's, 48, Great Peter Street—11—
St. St. Mary's, Hide Place—82—
St. Mary's, Gate Street—3——
St. Matthew's—84—
St. Michael's—42—
St. Paul's, Wilton Place—3——
St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Street—4——
St. Peter's and St. Edward's—2——
St. Peter's and St. James's—71—
St. Stephen's—41—
St. Vincent—11—
Pimlico Rooms—12—
Wesleyan Training—71—
Westminster Jews' Free—4——

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Glanders.—Among the deaths recorded were 2 from glanders—one
a horsekeeper employed in Douglas Street, the other the wife of a
carman living in Wallis Yard. In the latter case the husband stated
that his wife frequently went into the stable and fed four horses, one of
which had been slaughtered and was found affected with glanders. In
the former case proceedings were subsequently taken in the Police
Court by the County Council against the owners of the stables for
failing to give notice that they had in their possession a horse suffering
from glanders, and against their manager for having caused the animal
to be led along a highway. The magistrate dismissed the summons
against the owners, but fined the manager £2, with £3 5s. costs.
Usually the horse is the chief sufferer from glanders, which is due
to a specific microbe. The nasal discharges of diseased animals are the
chief means by which other animals are infected. Fortunately, it is
not common in man, but when it does occur takes the form of an acute
general infection, in addition to the nasal and cutaneous lesions which
characterise the disease.