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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

Wandsworth 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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198
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
During the year 14 cases of infectious disease, six of Scarlet
Fever, five of Diphtheria, two of Erysipelas, and one of Enteric
Fever, were notified as having occurred in the homes of outworkers,
compared with six in 1909, 22 in 1908, six in 1907, six in
1906, and five in 1905.
In none of these cases was it necessary to make any order
under Section 110 of the Factory and Workshop Act.