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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 1948

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

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Table: CLEANSING, AND DISINFECTING. Cleansing. The number of attendances at the Council's Public Health Annexe during the year was as follows:— (1) Scabies.

CLEANSING, AND DISINFECTING. Cleansing. The number of attendances at the Council's Public Health Annexe during the year was as follows:— (1) Scabies.

MenWomenChildren under 5SchoolchildrenTotal 1948Total 1947
St. Pancras3473912176261,5812,100
Ex St. Pancras27101—38323
No fixed abode—2——2—
Totals3744032186261,6212,423
(2) Verminous Conditions.
MenWomenChildren under 5SchoolchildrenTotal 1948Total 1947
Head liceSt. Pancras240441,8351,9211,740
Ex St. Pancras—35—8536
No fixed abode——————
Body liceSt. Pancras50293514435
Ex St. Pancras171——1823
No fixed abode9———933
Totals53053521,8352,4702,767

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The majority of the children included in the above tables were brought by school officers
of the London County Council under powers conferred upon them by the Education Act, 1944.
Payment is made by the London County Council at the rate of two shillings per child in
respect of verminous conditions, and one shilling per bath for those suffering from scabies.