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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

London County Council 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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DIAGRAM shewing (a) cases of Scarlet Feuer; (b) houses newly invaded by Scarlet
Fever, supplied with milk by certain retail vendors obtaining milk from the
contractor, Mr. X.; and (c) cases of Scarlet Fever in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch
occurring among persons supplied by vendors who did not obtain milk
from Mr. X.
N.B.—The shaded portion of the diagram represents the period prior to the
stoppage of the infective milk.
Martin Hood & Larkin Lith,London,W.C.