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 St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Hanover Square —Inquiry made, isolation best possible, disinfection if requested
or desirable.
Islington—Inquiry made as in other infectious diseases, isolation advised, infected
room fumigated only.
Shoreditch—No action, except upon special request of medical attendant.
Paddington—Inquiry made, isolation not enforced, no disinfection done.
Bethnai. Green—No inquiry, isolation, or disinfection done, but sanitary examination
made.
Newington—Inquiry made, and sanitary examination, isolation not prescribed,
disinfection done only when requested.
Camberwelt.—Inquiry made, no isolation insisted on, disinfect in exceptional cases.
St. James, Westminster—Inquiry made, and sanitary inspection, no isolation
enforced, only disinfect when requested.
St. M. & St. J., Westminster—Inquiry made, isolation for serious cases, disinfection
carried out. (Head teachers of Schools attended notified.)
Clerkenwell—Inquiry made, no isolation, no disinfection.
Chelsea—No action, except in special cases.
Kensington—Inquiry made, and sanitary investigation, isolation left to medical
attendant, disinfection in fatal and severe cases.
Fulham—Inquiry made, isolation kept, disinfection done.
Hammersmith—Inquiry made, isolation advised, disinfection done by authority.
St. Luke—Inquiry made, and sanitary investigation, isolation not enforced, but
patient excluded from food businesses, no disinfection.
St. George-the-Martyr—Inquiry made, isolation required, disinfection in special
cases.
Bermondsey—Inquiry made, and sanitary inspection, no isolation or disinfection.
St. George-in-the-East—Inquiry made, isolation under general instructions, no
disinfection.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields—No action, except to disinfection when asked.
Mile End—No action.
Woolwich—No action.
Rotherhithe—Inquiry made, isolation recommended, occasionally enforced, disinfection
always done after the disease.
Hampstead—Inquiry made, no isolation, occasionally disinfect.
Battersea—Inquiry, isolation, and disinfection, as in other notifiable infectious
diseases.
Hackney—Inquiry made, isolation required, and disinfection done.
Stoke Newington—Inquiry made, and house inspected, isolation advised, but not
enforced, disinfection done only upon application.
Plumstead—Inquiry, isolation, and disinfection, but the two latter not strictly
enforced as in scarlet fever.
Whitechapel—All notified diseases treated alike as to routine, excepling the
isolation of erysipelas.
Greenwich & Deptford—Inquiry made, isolation required, and disinfection in
fatal cases.
Wandsworth—Inquiry and sanitary examination, but no further action.
St. Giles—No action.
Holborn—Inquiry made, no isolation, disinfection done if patient is removed to
hospital, if not, instructions left to disinfect.
Strand—Inquiry made, isolation only under special circumstances, disinfection
sometimes if there has been discharges.