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 Kingston-upon-Thames]
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at home getting occasional advice and treatment. It is hoped
that before long Sanatorium treatment may be available for
dependents as well as for insured persons.
The term Fair as regards housing and employment
means that the patient was given a separate room and could
be fairly well supplied with nourishment. The occupation
was not for over long hours and the places of business were
fairly good as regards air space and means and conditions of
going and returning.
The term Good means a house in every respect suitable
for treatment. Good, clean rooms—open surroundings and
comfortable condition of friends.
Indifferent includes all the other cases, but the number
in which the conditions could be called bad were fewer than
those described as good.