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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

Willesden 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]

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Table: NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.-Coming to knowledge from Schools and othersources of information.Number of Cases for Quarter ending March 30th, 1907.

NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.-Coming to knowledge from Schools and other

sources of information.

Number of Cases for Quarter ending March 30th, 1907.

disease.Families Visited.Total Nos. Suffering. (FirstVisit).Contacts.Families Re-visited.Secondary Cases discovered upon Re-visit.Doctor in Attendance. Total Cases.Isolated.Total No. Suffering.
Measles1039220237297023121
Whooping Cough3325518411005233022603 + 21*
Chicken Pox4341.........14541
Mumps5860.........16360
Ringworm117130.........4221130
Other Diseases165167.........488167
Consumption22.........1...2
Coughs*119117...21*2135...96
1160104315881556821241

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These 21 cases were excluded from School in accordance with a request conveyed in a circular letter to the teachers of January
25th. At the time the scholars appeared to the teachers to be cases of simple cough, but within a fortnight 21 or over 18
per cent. of all the cases so excluded proved to be Whooping Cough. The other cases were re-admitted to school so soon
as they were definitely known not to be cases of Whooping Cough.