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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
Ilford 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Table VII.-Summary of Cases of Infectious Diseases among School Children, and of Contacts of such Cases, excluded from School Attendance during the Year ended the 31st December, 1930.
| SCHOOLS. | DISEASES AND CONTACTS. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number on Roll. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Measles & German Measles. | Chicken-pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Small Pox. | Ring-worm. | Totals, 1930. | Totals, 1929. | ||||||||||
| Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Cases. | Contacts. | Cases. | Contacts. | ||
| Barkingside | 278 | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 13 | 40 | 36 |
| Becontree | 2024 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 51 | 74 | 33 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | - | 151 | 121 | 245 | 165 |
| Open Air | 97 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | |
| Chadwell | 302 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 24 | 13 | 16 | 8 |
| Christchurch | 1165 | 20 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 146 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 10 | - | 19 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 242 | 72 | 137 | 70 |
| Cleveland | 1106 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 105 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 157 | 63 | 138 | 34 |
| Downshall | 1561 | 18 | 24 | 16 | 30 | 162 | 18 | 36 | 14 | 56 | 1 | 47 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 336 | 89 | 137 | 45 |
| Fairlop | 190 | 8 | 8 | - | 2 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 8 | - | - | 1 | - | 63 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
| Gearies | 1088 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 105 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 6 | - | 29 | - | - | 2 | - | 190 | 50 | 63 | 22 |
| Goodmayes | 1355 | 8 | 18 | 41 | 37 | 95 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 7 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 172 | 85 | 155 | 108 |
| Gordon | 236 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - |
| Highlands | 996 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 133 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 10 | - | - | 2 | - | 169 | 35 | 110 | 50 |
| Little Heath | 89 | - | - | - | 1 | 24 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 26 | 11 | 10 | 5 |
| Loxford | 965 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 119 | 35 | 55 | 16 | 12 | - | 23 | - | 1 | 6 | - | 225 | 62 | 85 | 31 |
| Mayesbrook | 185 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Newbury Park | 758 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | - | 3 | 7 | 1 | 61 | 33 | 48 | 24 |
| Roman Catholic, Ilford | 481 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 40 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 66 | 45 | 85 | 52 |
| St. Vincent's R.C., Bee. | 371 | 1 | 5 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| South Park | 1325 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 125 | 13 | 18 | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 164 | 41 | 83 | 41 |
| Uphall | 638 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 69 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 99 | 41 | 95 | 36 |
| Valentines | 339 | 1 | - | - | - | 18 | - | 5 | 2 | 8 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 33 | 3 | 22 | 12 |
| County High | - | 9 | 11 | 6 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | 23 | 6 | 11 |
| Private | - | 12 | 13 | 20 | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 30 | 38 | 42 |
| Mossford (G.V.H.) | 753 | 1 | - | 4 | _ | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 17 | - | - | - | - | 25 | - | 7 | - |
| Totals | 16303 | 174 | 218 | 208 | 251 | 1295 | 253 | 234 | 83 | 171 | 10 | 179 | - | 8 | 47 | 5 (2274 | 862 | 1530 | 4*)9 | |
Acute Primary Pneumonia:—1 case (Becontree). Acute Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis:—1 case (Private School).