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Junior, 20; Boys, 9; Girls, 5. In addition, 13 cases occurred
in Becontree School.
" A number of visits have been paid to both schools. In
view of the number of cases which had occurred in one class, I
requested the Director of Education to allocate a School
Attendance Officer to visit the absentees, and also to ensure that
none were re-admitted without a medical certificate. As a
result., no cases have occurred in this class since October 24th.
" In view of the incidence of this disease on the L.C.C.
Estate, all parents of children in the Becontree and Goodmayes
Junior Departments have been offered immunisation
against diphtheria. 480 acceptances of this treatment were
received. Most of the children (whose parents have accepted)
will be treated before the Xmas holidays and the remainder
immediately afterwards."
(c) Measles and German Measles.—141 cases were notified from
the schools in 1929, compared with 1,383 during 1928. No deaths
from Measles in a child of school age occurred in 1929, compared
with one in 1928, nil in 1927, and 7 in 1926.
(d) Chickenpox, Whooping Cough and Mumps.—331 cases of
Chickenpox occurred in 1929, as compared with 278 in 1928; 278
cases of Whooping Cough in 1929, as compared with 341 in 1928;
and 252 cases of Mumps in 1929, as compared with 207 in 1928.
1,021 home visits were paid by the Health Visitors in connection
with cases of minor infectious disease.