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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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CONTACT SHELTER.
Number of families, and of persons in families, in contact with Infectious Disease, sheltered, cleansed and disinfected.
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The following is the form of notice conveying information with regard to
the Contact Shelter, a copy of which is sent to every contact coming to the
knowledge of this authority: —
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. PANCRAS.
Public Health Department.
Notice to Persons in Contact with Dangerous Infectious Diseases.
Contact Shelter.
The St. Pancras Borough Council have provided a Contact Shelter in
Cambridge Street, King's Road, Pancras Road, N.W. (on the east side
of St. Pancras Gardens), for the purpose of temporarily sheltering those
whose dwellings are being disinfected after dangerous infectious disease, and
of disinfecting the person and clothing of those who have been in close
contact with dangerous infectious disease.