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The Scarlet Fever rate for the past five years at Ancona
Road School was 11.72, and the Wood Street rate 4.95,
or less than half as much. These schools serve Central
and Dockyard Wards respectively, and it appears that
the Scarlet Fever rate for the Central Ward, during the
same five years, was 16.0 per 1,000 population, and that
of the Dockyard Ward 13.7. Even this small difference
would probably disappear if allowance were made for
age distribution, Central Ward having, no doubt, a considerably
larger population of children of school age.
If Scarlet Fever must occur, it is better for children to have
it in their later than in their earlier years, since it is more
fatal to young children. It appears that the number of deaths
from Scarlet fever during the five years in Central Ward was two,
being only half the number in the Dockyard Ward; and in St'
George's Ward, which provides most of the children at Eglinton
Road School, there were 6 deaths, more proportionately than in
any other Ward. The highest death rate from Diphtheria was in
Central, St. Nicholas' and St. Margaret's Wards, but the notification
rates in the three chief schools in St. Nicholas and St.
Margaret's Wards were among the lowest.