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The number of children excluded in 1909 for infectious diseases was 2,646.
The increase during 1910 was mainly due to the larger number of exclusions for
measles and mumps. With respect to the numbers excluded on account of scarlet
fever and diphtheria some reduction is noticeable in 1910, as compared with the
previous year.
During the year intimations were received from the Medical Officer (Education)
as to the exclusion of children who had not had measles from the infants departments
or from classrooms in the infants departments of the following schools:—
In February, Laburnum Street, classroom G; in April, Trinity Place School, classroom
E; in June, Chatham Gardens School, classroom D; in July, Napier Street
School, classroom C; in September, Hamond Square, classroom C, and Shap Street,
classroom B; in October, Gopsall Street, classrooms A, B and C, Shap Street, classroom
C, Redvers Street, classroom A, Catherine Street, infants department, Canal
Road, classrooms A and B, Hoxton House, classroom K, Chatham Gardens, classroom
D, and Haggerston Road, infants department; in November, Shap Street,
infants department, Gopsall Street, classroom A, Scrutton Street, classroom A,
Scawfell Street classroom, M, St. John's Road, classroom F, Catherine Street, classroom
F, and Napier Street, classroom C; in December, Trinity Place, classroom E,
Shap Street, classroom B, Napier Street, classrooms A and B, and St. Monica's
School, classroom C.
In June it was necessary to visit Scawfell Street and Hamond Square Schools
in connecton with the occurrence of cases of scarlet fever certified in children attending
the infants departments, the incidence of the cases suggesting the probability
of an undetected source of infection. A watch was kept, but the cases ceased without
anything definite being ascertained.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
During the year 69 examinations were made by Dr. Bulloch at the London
Hospital Medical School in cases of suspected infectious disease. In 45 the examinations
were for sore throats suspected of being diphtheria; in 18 the results were
positive, and in 27 negative. In 17 instances Widal's tests were made for enteric
fever, with positive results in nine. Seven examinations were made for the tubercle
bacillus, with positive results in three.
Throughout the year specimens were collected from persons who had been
inmates of the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals suffering from enteric fever
in connection with an investigation undertaken by Dr. Theodore Thomson, of the
Local Government Board as regards "carrier" cases. The results of the examinations
made by Dr. Ledingham, of the Lister Institute, where the specimens were sent,
were negative so far as those collected in Shoreditch went.