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City of Westminster 1907

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

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Ponsonby Terrace, 35 St. Martin's Lane, 79 Victoria Street, 4 (West-
Park Street, 51 Semley Place, 2a minster Palace Hotel)
Raphael Street, 36 Sutherland Terrace, 7 "Warwick Street, 48
Regency Street, 9 Sussex Street, 15 Warwick Street, 19
Regent Street, 227 Strand (Hotel Cecil) Westmoreland Street, 3
Regent Street, 106 Tachbrook Street. 2 West Strand (Charing
Rochester Row, 84 Vauxhall Bridge Road, 40 Cross Hotel)
St. James's Street, 10 Victoria Street, 162 Whitaker Street, 4
"Liquid Eggs."—In consequence of a communication from the
Medical Officer of the Borough of Stepney, that he had seized a
quantity of "liquid eggs" in a condition unfit for food, and that the
stuff was being supplied to bakers and confectioners, special enquiry
was made, but only one baker and confectioner was discovered in
Westminster who made use of eggs in this form, and the preparation
was not obtained from the firm in question. Other bakers had tried
"liquid eggs" but had not found the stuff satisfactory.

Infectious Disease in Places where Food is Prepared or Sold (Hotels, Restaurants, Clubs, &c.), not including Milkshops.

Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Erysipelas.Total.
(a) Illness in persons connected with the business1929333
(b) Business in other parts of house22
(c) Persons from infected houses employed elsewhere1772127
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Information reached me from a port sanitary authority that an alien
(who had previously resided in London), had been admitted suffering
from Trachoma, an infectious disease of the eyes, and was to be
employed in the kitchen of a well-known restaurant. The man was
discovered with some difficulty before beginning work, and the
proprietor of the restaurant, on being informed, declined to engage
him until he was cured. He was kept under observation for two
months, when he was believed to be cured.
Slaughter House.—There is only one (14, Regency Street), which is
used occasionally. It was visited weekly.
A Poultry Slaughter House was opened in the basement of a
tenement house, the ground floor being used as a shop for the sale
of Kosher meat and poultry. No special regulations exist for such