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Note.—Some rooms stripped and cleansed had no contents or none in a condition requiring removal,
and some contents were removed from rooms that did not require to be stripped or cleansed.
CLEANSING OF VERMINOUS SCHOOL CHILDREN.
It may be interesting to ascertain whether the cleansing of verminous schoolchildren
in St. Pancras and St. Marylebone is having any possible effect upon
the incidence of the infectious diseases which attack children. For the purpose
of testing the effect of the cleansing of such children, the morbidity or mortality
of certain diseases attacking school-children may be taken, and their
incidence in St. Pancras and St. Marylebone as compared with other London
Boroughs. For this purpose the morbidity-rates (notifications of disease) of
Scarlet Fever and of Diphtheria, and the mortality-rates (returns of deaths) of
Measles and the principal epidemic diseases have been taken (the morbidityrates
for the two latter not being available), and the Metropolitan Boroughs
classified in order of least morbidity or mortality for each of the four classes.
From these classifications the table following has been compiled, showing the
order of merit in which St. Pancras and St. Marylebone have stood each year
since 1901.