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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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S chools and I nfectious D isease.
School Teachers are required to notify me when they exclude children on account of infectious disease. The following list shows how far this was carried out and the nature of the cases notified:-
| School. | Actual Cases. | Infection in House. | Other Causes. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken-pox. | Measels. | Mumps. | Whooping-cough. | Chicken pox. | Measels. | Mumps. | Whooping-cough. | ||
| Charing Cross Read | 2 | 28 | 1 | - | 1 | 32 | 3 | - | 2 blight. |
| Horseferry Road | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 5 ringworm. |
| 1 eczema. | |||||||||
| Buckingham Gate | 2 | 5 | . | 1 | 3 | 11 | - | - | 1 ringworm. |
| Pulteney | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | - | 2 | 1 eczema. |
| 1 ringworm. | |||||||||
| St. George's Row | 5 | . | . | . | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 22 ringworm. |
| Millbank | 20 | 105 | 8 | 29 | 6 | 39 | . | 2 | 1 eczema. |
| Tower Street | 3 | 7 | . | 4 | 3 | . | . | . | 1 blight. |
| Great Wild Street | 17 | 23 | . | 2 | 20 | 15 | . | 1 | 2 biight. |
| Brompton Higher Grade | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | 2 | . | - | |
| Christ Church | 8 | . | 7 | . | 4 | - | - | - | 2 ringworm. |
| Holy Trinity | 4 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 2 | . | |
| Pimlieo Rooms | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 ringworm. |
| St. Anne's | . | 15 | . | . | 3 | 18 | . | . | |
| St. Anselm's | . | 1 | . | . | . | 4 | . | . | |
| St. Barnabas | 25 | 7 | 15 | - | 9 | 5 | 2 | - | 9 ringworm. 1 eczema. |
| St. Clement Danes | 3 | 6 | . | - | 1 | 3 | . | . | 1 ringworm. |
| St. Edward's, Dufour's Place | 11 | 3 | . | - | 2 | 2 | . | - | |
| St. Gabriel's | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 11 ringworm. |
| 2 eczema. | |||||||||
| St. George's | - | 1 | 8 | 12 | . | 1 12 | 3 | . | 2 ringworm. |
| St. James the Less | 6 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 1 | . | . | 2 ringworm. | |
| St. John's, Tufton Street | . | 10 | 1 | 1 | . | 16 | . | . | |
| St. Margaret's | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| St. Martin's, Castle Street | 6 | 7 | . | . | 8 | - | . | - | |
| St. Mary's, 48, Great Peter Street | . | . | . | . | . | 7 | . | . | |
| St. Mary's, Hide Place | 11 | 7 | . | 16 | 14 | 7 | . | 2 | 2 ringworm. |
| St. Mary's, Johnson Place | . | 2 | . | 1 | 4 | . | . | . | 5 ringworm. |
| St. Matthew's | 1 | 2 | . | . | 6 | 1 | . | . | |
| St. Michael's | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | . | 4 ringworm. |
| St. Paul's | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | . | . | 2 ringworm. |
| St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Place | 3 | 17 | 1 | . | 3 | 20 | . | . | |
| St. Peter's and St. James' | 2 | 8 | . | 9 | 2 | 5 | - | . | |
| St. Stephen's | 4 | 28 | 4 | . | 3 | 15 | 2 | . | 4 ringworm. |
| Wesleyan Training | . | 8 | . | 2 | . | 7 | . | 2 | |
| Westminster Jews' Free | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 148 | 347 | 60 | 92 | 126 | 280 | 15 | 16 | ||
The infants' department of the following schools were closed on
account of infection during the year:- Millbank, St. Mary's Hide
Place, and Holy Trinity National.
Copies of 736 certificates relating to teachers or children attending
at the following schools notified by medical men to be suffering from
illness during 1906, were sent to school teachers during 1906:-