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St Pancras 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Under the general direction of the Housing Inspector, the
remaining Sanitary Inspectors have been wholly engaged in the
supervision of work in connection with first-aid repairs to war
damaged houses in the Borough, with the assistance of eight
temporary Housing Assistants.
1,062 intimation notices (including 114 by the Factory
Inspectors), and 334 statutory notices were served during the
year. None was served under the Shops Act.
7 prosecutions were undertaken under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936 in respect of general sanitary work, and
20 under the Food and Drugs Act, 1938•
Defects found under the Factories Act numbered 171, all
of which were remedied. There were no prosecutions.
DISINFECTION.
During the year disinfections were carried out after infectious diseases, as follows:-
| Disease | No. of cases | No. of Houses | No. of rooms contents disinfected or destroyed. | No. of rooms sprayed and fumigated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 125 | 125 | 1 | 76 |
| Diphtheria | 119 | 119 | 1 | 86 |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | 0 | - | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 35 | 35 | - | 6 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 35 | 35 | - | 13 |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Measles | 10 | 10 | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | 4 | - | - | |
| Tuberculosis | 113 | 113 | 3 | 92 |
| Vermin and Scabies | 623 | 608 | 7 | 196 |
| Other Diseases,(not notifiable ) | 252. | 249 | 5 | 26 |
| Air raid shelters | 169 | - | 2 | 21 |
| TOTALS | 1498 | 1311 | 19 | 521 |
The number of articles disinfected or destroyed on account
of verminous conditions is as follows:
Destroyed 63
Disinfected 14,618
CLEANSING STATION
The total number of attendances in 1940 was 4,593 as
compared with 6,149 in 1941, the increase being attributable
to the larger number of cases of scabies treated.