Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In Public Institutions within the Borough one case of Scarlet
Fever and one of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified from the
Workhouse; one case of Erysipelas from H.M. Prison; one case
of Scarlet Fever, six cases of Enteric Fever and two cases of
Erysipelas were notified from the Middlesex County Asylum;
one case of Enteric Fever from the Putney Hospital; 14 cases of
Scarlet Fever and eight cases of Diphtheria from the Fountain
Asylum; 34 Scarlet Fever, eight Diphtheria, and one Erysipelas
from the Grove Hospital; four cases of Scarlet Fever and two of
Diphtheria from the Tooting Bec Asylum; 30 Scarlet Fever and
four Diphtheria from the Royal Patriotic Schools; 11 Scarlet
Fever from the Notre Dame, Clapham Common; four cases of
Scarlet Fever from the Intermediate Schools, Swaffield Road;
two cases of Scarlet Fever from the Third London General Hospital;
one case of Scarlet Fever and one of Diphtheria from the Home for
Little Boys, King's Avenue, Clapham Park; and one case of
Erysipelas from the Tooting Home.