View report page

79
Disease.
No. of
Certificates
Disease.
Certificates
No. of
Vermin
445
Mumps
14
Scabies
330
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
10
Ringworm
235
Other Tuberculosis
10
Other skin diseases
234
Dirt
8
Eye trouble
123
Epilepsy
6
Other causes
106
Whooping Cough
5
Impetigo
73
Diphtheria
2
Chorea
32
Measles
1
Bronchial Catarrh
23
1683
Ear disease
16
Chicken Pox
16
The number 1,689 is 59 more than last year; this increase is mainly due
to the children being seen again and again at shorter intervals than formerly.
Scabies is on the increase—228 last year—it may have been brought home by
soldiers.
During the summer holidays, and at special times for measles, the public
elementary schools were well disinfected.
Exclusion Of Contacts. The rules adopted for the exclusion of
contacts are as before.
Exclusion Notices. Without measles, in connection with the notifiable
infectious diseases, notices were issued by the Medical Officer of Health
excluding 279 children, as patients or contacts, from attending day or Sunday
schools for definite periods.
On account of measles and the non-notifiable infectious diseases, notices
excluding 2,058 children as patients or contacts were issued by me, after
enquiries had been made as to the real nature of the illness. The numbers
excluded in 1915-14-13 were 1,415, 2,874, and 941 respectively. It is
interesting to note the great variation in the number of children excluded
from the schools during 1916.
1. National 344
2. Eldon Road 259
3. Brettenham Road 248
4. Montagu Road 242
5. Silver Street 237
6. Croyland Road 184
7. Raynham Road 156
8. St. James's 113
9. Houndsfield 83
10. St. Edmund's 83
11. Lower Latymer 8
12. Latymer Secondary 2
1957
Besides the following :—Enfield Council Schools, 8; Private Schools, 40 ;
12 children at various schools in Winchmore Hill, Tottenham, etc., and 40
children not attending (at the time) any school.