Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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Riga, and one from Bremen, who were proceeding to addresses in Shoreditch.
In all cases the usual enquiries were made at the addresses given, and the persons
concerned kept under observation.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS.
In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases or were residing in houses in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from the head teachers of the schools they attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the London County Council:—
School. | Enteric Fever. | Small Pox. | Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Measles. | Chicken Pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Other Causes. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bath Street | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 8 | |
Brunswick Street | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Canal Road | 1 | 2 | 8 | 90 .. | 23 | 24 | 2 | 12 .. | 162 | |
Central Street | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | 6 | |||
Chatham Gardens | .. | 1 | 13 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 14 | 31 | |
Coleman Street Ward. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Curtain Road | .. | 5 | 11 | 77 | 24 | l | 84 | 209 | ||
Gopsall Street | .. | 22 | 15 | 62 | 35 | 56 | 13 | 121 | 324 | |
Haggerston Road | 1 | .. | 6 | 46 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 90 | |
Hammond Square | 1 | 1 | 13 | 68 | 29 | 39 | 3 | 59 | 213 | |
Hanover Street | .. | . . | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | |
Hoxton House | .. | 2 | 2 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 15 | |
Italian School | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Laburnam Street | .. | 7 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |
Maidstone Street Molem Street | .. .. | 9 .. | 20 .. | 68 .. | 58 .. | 34 .. | 4 .. | 98 1 | 291 1 | |
Napier Street | .. | 18 | 36 | 48 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 48 | 184 | |
Pritchards Road | .. | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 15 | |
Redvers Street | 2 | 11 | 16 | 8 | .. | 15 | 5 | 91 | 148 | |
Rotherfield Street | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
St. John's National | .. | 1 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | |
St. John's Road | .. | 7 | 23 | 47 | 20 | 21 | 3 | 22 | 143 | |
St. Monica's | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | |
St. Paul's | .. | 4 | 18 | 8 | 39 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 83 | |
St. Phillip's | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |
Scawfell Street | 1 | 13 | 35 | 23 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 54 | 177 | |
Scrutton Street | .. | 23 | 14 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 92 | |
Shap Street | .. | 3 | 4 | 36 | 5 | .. | 4 | 16 | 68 | |
Shepperton Road | .. | 1 | 1 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | |
Trinity Place | .. | 5 | 8 | 62 | 30 | 32 | 2 | 31 | 170 | |
Wenlock Road | .. | .. | 8 | 9 | 50 | 13 | 24 | 6 | 43 | 153 |
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Total | 6 | 146 | 275 | 753 | 308 | 335 | 81 | 742 | 2646 |