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St. Michael's, Chase Side and Brigadier Hill.
St. Andrew's, Cecil and Sydney Roads.
Baker Street Mission.
Gordon Lane (closing continued tor the three Sundays more.)
St. Mary's, Windmill Hill.
Cecil Hall.
Baptist Church, London Road.
St. John's, Clay Hill.
Jesus Church, Forty Hill.
Brigadier Hill Mission.
Presbyterian Church.
Shirley Hall.
Latter Day Saints, Baker Street.
Wesleyan, Chase Side.
Baker Street Congregational.
It has long been held that school influence plays a large part in
the propagation of Diphtheria and other infectious diseases, and I
think the experience of this epidemic further proves the correctness
of this view; it has, however, been borne in on me strongly that
school teachers, in their anxiety to preserve a good average attendance
do not realise sufficiently the importance of early exclusion of children
suffering from any indisposition, however slight, especially during the
existence of an epidemic.
MILK.
It being recognised that milk has on many occasions played a
very important part in connection with the spread of Diphtheria,
cose attention was from the first given do the milk supply of the
infected houses.
It may be well here to mention the characteristics of a milk
epidemic. A milk epidemic is characterised by the suddeness with
which it makes its appearance, most of the cases being attacked at
about the same time. The infected houses will for the most part be
found to have been supplied by the same milk-vendor, and the
sufferers are mostly women and children of the well-to-do classes.
On making exhaustive inquiries into the milk supply of the
affected houses it was found that no suspicion could be attached to
any milkman supplying milk in the locality. Although there were