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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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In this way 462 notifications were sent out during 1907 to school teachers as follows:—
| School. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charing Cross Road | - | 3 | - | - |
| Horseferry Road | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Buckingham Gate | — | 5 | 2 | — |
| Pulteney | — | 12 | 1 | — |
| St. George's Row | — | 10 | 4 | — |
| Millbank | — | 8 | 4 | — |
| Great Wild Street | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Brompton Higher Grade | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Christ Church | — | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Curzon | — | 3 | - | — |
| French Protestant | - | 2 | - | — |
| Holy Trinity | — | 6 | 1 | — |
| St. Anne's | — | 2 | 2 | — |
| St. Anselms | - | 10 | - | — |
| St. Barnabas | - | 5 | 6 | — |
| St. Clement Danes | - | 2 | 2 | — |
| St. Edward's, Dufour's Place | - | 10 | 1 | — |
| St. Gabriel's | - | 17 | 3 | — |
| St. George's, South Street | - | 9 | 2 | — |
| St. James the Less.. | - | 19 | 1 | — |
| St. Margaret's | - | 3 | 1 | — |
| St. Martin's, Castle Street | - | 5 | — | — |
| St. Mary's, 48, Great Peter Street | - | 4 | __ | — |
| St. Mary's, Hide Place | - | 4 | — | — |
| St. Matthew's | - | 4 | 3 | — |
| St. Michael's | - | 5 | 2 | — |
| St. Paul's, Caroline Street | - | - | - | — |
| St. Paul's, Wilton Place | - | 7 | 2 | — |
| St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Street | - | 4 | 2 | - |
| St. Peter's and St. James's | - | 6 | 1 | — |
| St. Stephen's | - | 2 | 2 | - |
| Wesleyan Training College | - | 7 | — | - |
| Westminster Jews'Free | - | — | — | — |
Disinfection of School Library Books.— The Public Health
Committee of Bermondsey Borough Council had under consideration a
report from their Medical Officer of Health with respect to school
library books which have been exposed to infection in cases of
dangerous infectious diseases. It appears that the practice was for the
head teacher, in accordance with the London County Council regulations,
to give instructions that such books should be burned, but it was found
that the practice was to have the books brought back to the school.
The City Council having been communicated with by the Bermondsey
Council agreed to support their action, and wrote the County Council
expressing the opinion that if the County Council desired that infected
books should be destroyed it would be better if the Borough Councils
did the work, for to take back to school books which had been exposed
to infection was, in the interests of the public health, unsafe, besides
being illegal. The London County Council in reply, dated the
17th August, 1907, stated that they had again considered their
regulations for dealing with such books belonging to school lending
libraries, and that they had decided to request the Borough Councils to