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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
Edmonton 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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of adaptation. The Medical Officers submitted a report, dated 2nd October, to
this meeting estimating the probable cost in capital expenditure and annual
maintenance in order to carry out the recommendations of the Sub-Committee.
On the 14th October the Council agreed to grant the Education Committee
the use of two rooms at Pymmes Park House at the rent of £10 per annum,
the Education Committee to bear the expense of maintaining and lighting the
rooms, as the latter expect to receive back a maximum of 50 per cent, of the
expenses incurred from the Board of Education. The Education Committee
adjourned consideration of the subject until 1914.
The number of children excluded at the routine inspection was 127, the reason for exclusion being:—
| ? Scarlet Fever | 2 | Vermin | 97 |
| Mumps | 2 | Ringworm | 4 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | Scabies | 1 |
| Chickenpox | 1 | Impetigo | 1 |
| Bronchial Catarrh | 3 | Other Skin Diseases | 5 |
| Tubercular Glands | 1 | Eye Disease | 4 |
| Tubercular Spine | 1 | Other Diseases | 4 |
The total number of exclusion certificates issued for contagious and other diseases during the year was 1,426 the reasons for exclusions being:—
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | Vermin | 206 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | Scabies | 54 |
| Mumps | 12 | Impetigo | 62 |
| Chickenpox | 2 | Other Skin Diseases | 133 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 8 | Eye Disease | 39 |
| Tubercular Glands | 6 | Ear Disease | 3 |
| Tubercular Knee | 1 | Chorea | 8 |
| Tubercular Ankle | 1 | Epilepsy | 2 |
| Bronchial Catarrh | 5 | Other causes | 129 |
| Ringworm | 751 | 1,426 |
The infant departments of the southern schools were thoroughly disinfected
in January owing to the prevalence of measles. In February chickenpox was
prevalent at the National Schools. About the middle of March measles was
nearly over, but chickenpox was still troubling the National Schools. At the
end of May mumps was predominent at Silver Street, and whooping cough at
Montagu Road and Brettenham Road, and chickenpox was still affecting some
scholars at the National School.