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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
City of London 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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SHELTER FOR TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION
DURING DISINFECTION.
The Shelter in Golden Lane, Barbican, provided in accordance with Sec. 60
(4) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which enacts that "sanitary
"authorities shall provide free of charge temporary shelter or house
"accommodation with necessary attendants for the members of any family
"in which any dangerous infectious disease has appeared, for the purpose of
"enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the sanitary authority,has
been visited by six families during the year. They numbered 27 persons, of
whom nine were adults and 18 were children, and who were housed during
the disinfection of their houses after:—
Scarlet Fever 4 families.
Diphtheria 1 family.
Enteric Fever 1 „
6 families.
One family came from a home consisting of four rooms, two of three rooms
and three of two rooms.