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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

St Pancras 1906

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

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Table: During the past year the action taken with regard to pulmonary phthisis tells its own story in the following table :—

During the past year the action taken with regard to pulmonary phthisis tells its own story in the following table :—

Births.W.S.E.N.Total.
Sputum examined8523541
Cases voluntarily notified68614830207
Advice papers sent68543728187
Inquiry made68563728189
By request.Segregation provided*3135161193
Disinfection done‡422513
Sanitary Inspection made—————

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* Segregation provided at the North Infirmary, 56 cases, South Infirmary 35,
Workhouse 1, and Central London. Sick Asylum, Cleveland Street, 1 case.
‡ Disinfection carried out after removal to Infirmary or other place, or after
death at home.

Table: CONSUMPTION NOTIFICATIONS:

CONSUMPTION NOTIFICATIONS:

Total number notified207
(1) Number notified by Medical Officers of Infirmaries (North and South) and of Workhouse83
(2) Number notified by District Medical Officers—
Public cases7
Private cases—
(3) Number notified by staff of Mount Vernon Hospital, Out-patients' department—
Public cases38
Private cases—
(4) Number notified by staffs of other hospitals—
Public cases11
Private eases—
(5) Number notified by private practitioners—67
(6) Notified by persons other than medical practitioners1
207