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Scarlet Fever.—The total number of cases notified during
the year was 169 from 142 houses. The attack rate was 2.9
per thousand of the population. There was one death.
Attack-Rate. Death-Rate.
1891-1895 4.8 .02
1896-1900 3.3 .04
1901-1905 2.3 .02
1906-1910 4.07 .05
1911-1915 3.03 .01
1916-1920 1.8 .01
1921-1925 3.04 .02 per thousand of the population.
In five houses there were three cases, in seventeen houses
two cases, and in the remaining 120 houses, one case.
143 or 85 per cent. of the cases were treated in the Borough
Isolation Hospital, Gap Road.
68 per cent. of the cases notified were children of school
age, five to fifteen years, and of these, 112 attended the following
schools:—
Cottenham Park, Mixed 1
Effra Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 21
Durnsford Road Mixed and Infants' Schools 20
Queen's Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 5
Queen's Road Boys' School 5
Pelham Road Boys' School 4
Pelham Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 12
Dundonald Road Boys' School 2
Dundonald Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 3
Russell Road Mixed School 2
Russell Road Infants' School 1
Haydons Road Girls' School 5
Haydons Road Infants' School 6
Haydons Road Boys' School 1
Private Schools 11
Schools outside the district 13
Total 112
Diphtheria:—The total number of cases notified during
the year was 52 from 44 houses. The attack-rate was .8 per
thousand of the population.
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