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St Pancras 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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order that you may continue your occupation practically without risk to others,
provided that you do not omit to seek medical advice if indisposed.
The St. Pancras Borough Council have provided a Station for personal
cleansing and disinfection of personal clothing at Cambridge Street Disinfecting
Station, St. Pancras Gardens, N. W. ; and the St. Pancras Guardians a Public
Vaccination Station at 209, Hampstead Road, N.W. (opposite Ampthill
Square).
The Superintending Inspector will convey you to the
Personal Cleansing and Disinfecting Station,
where after undergoing the process free of charge, you will be supplied with
the Certificate of the Medical Officer of Health, and may proceed to the Public
Vaccinator.
John F. J. Sykes,
January, 1902. Medical Officer of Health.
Notices of Small-pox contacts together with copies of the handbill are also
sent to the employers of St. Pancras, that they may bo made acquainted with
the facilities offered to prevent the spread of disease in factories, workshops
and offices.
When the contacts have undergone the process of personal cleansing and
disinfection, they are each supplied with a copy of the following certificate
duly filled in with name and address :—
ST. PANCRAS BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Public Health Department,
Pancras Road, N.W.
No. Date 190 .
SMALL-POX CONTACT.
Certificate of Personal Cleansing and Disinfecting, and Re-vaccination.
This is to Certify that
aged of
(1), has undergone personal cleansing (including hair and nails) in a warm
bath at the Cleansing and Disinfecting Station, Cambridge Street, St.
Pancras Gardens, N.W., and
(2), that the personal clothing of the above has undergone disinfection in the
steam chamber.
John F. J. Sykes, m.d.,
Medical Officer of Health.
(3). This is to certify that the above has been efficiently vaccinated or
re-vaccinated.
Date
Vaccinator.
Notice.—Having taken the above certified measures, if the above person
remain in good health, or if indisposed immediately seek medical advice, all
practical precautions will have been taken against the spread of the disease,
and any occupation or employment may be followed with comparative safety.