[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    58 suffering from scarlet fever:—6 from Priory Grove, 2 from Hackford Road, 6 from Stockwell College, and 4 from Cormont Road respectively. Of the total 18 children ex cluded, 2 sickened with scarlet fever (Cormont Road School). Outbreak ok Scarlet Fever Renfrew Road Police Barracks. An outbreak of scarlet fever and scarlatinal sore throat occurred during 1910 (January), in connection with the Police Barracks in Renfrew Road*, known as the Can didates' Old Section House. A total of 25 cases were notified, but of these three only shewed definite clinical symptoms of scarlet fever, the other 22 being cases of suspicious sore throat, which proved on more careful inspection and observation to be not scarlet fever but sore throats of an influenzal type, catarrhal tonsillitis, though scarlatina] in appearance, there was no subsequent peeling of the skin, nor had there been previously any rash or pyrexia. The three genuine cases of scarlet fever were removed to hospital in the usual way, and arrangements made for the 22 (suspicious cases) to be removed to the Fever Hospital also. The necessary disinfection was carried out at the barracks, which were closed for one week, and other precautionary measures were taken. The drains and sanitary fittings were examined by the Government Surveyor, objection being taken to any inspection by the Local Authority, on the ground that the buildings were Government property and, therefore, outside the Acts, and a slight defect (leakage) in connection with a ventilating pipe was discovered, but no result was obtained from the smoke test applied to the drains. There are two Police Barracks—one at Renfrew Road (Lambeth) and the other in Regency Street (Westminster), and men are sent to these places from the country for six weeks probationary training, prior to being drafted into the *The other Police Barracks at Regency Street, Westminster was infected in a similar way (scarlet fever and sore-throat).