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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

Croydon 1917

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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92
ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.

Table: TABLE E. XV.6,581 notices of illness (including duplicate notices) were received from School Teachers or Attendance Officers during 1917. 7,174 notices of illness were despatched to the respective schools by the Public Health Department. These notices dealt with, amongst others, 5,113 school children actually suffering from the infectious diseases mentioned in the Table :—

TABLE E. XV.

6,581 notices of illness (including duplicate notices) were received from School Teachers or Attendance Officers during 1917. 7,174 notices of illness were despatched to the respective schools by the Public Health Department. These notices dealt with, amongst others, 5,113 school children actually suffering from the infectious diseases mentioned in the Table :—

Illness.let Quarter.2nd Quarter.3fd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
Scarlet Fever27142049110
Diphtheria86162454
Measles9711128701732342
Mumps45926784288
Whooping Cough33362278169
Chicken-pox67439176295
Sore Throat40131660129
Ringworm (Scalp)42543158185
,, (body)46311020107
Impetigo15712882243610
Scabies64344348189
Infectious Eye Disease41392121122
Other diseases17994100140513
Totals1720171250711745113

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27 cases of Diphtheria from Convent, Central Hill, and 2 of
Scarlet Fever have been dealt with during 1917.
The table records only the number of actual sufferers from the
infectious diseases therein mentioned, as it is thought that this
information is of more practical use than a detailed record of the
number of notices sent.