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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
Shoreditch 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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During the year Sanitary Inspectors visited all new cases of tuberculosis
notified and also inspected the homes of all persons discharged from
hospital or removing from another area into this borough.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1925.
These regulations prohibit a person suffering from tuberculosis, and
who is in an infectious condition, from following any employment or occupation
in connection with a dairy which would involve the milking of cows, the
treatment of milk, or the handling of vessels used for containing milk. No
formal action was necessary during the year.
MASS MINIATURE RADIOGRAPHY.
No intensive drive was initiated from this department during 1952,
following the success of 1951, so that, apart from two of the largest firms,
which were actually visited by the Unit (when 726 and 611 members of their
staffs respectively were examined in May) the only Shoreditch workers who
visited Golden Lane were 149 members of the Borough Council's staff, and
19 members of one firm. Housewives requested a special session but only
20 actually attended.
It is hoped however, that Shoreditch will actually be visited for a
short period by the Unit in 1953, when this department expects to keep it
fully occupied with members of smaller firms and others working in highly
enclosed premises.