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In one house there were four cases, in five houses two cases,
and in the remaining thirty-eight houses, one case.
There were two deaths.
48 or 92 per cent. of the patients were treated in the
Isolation Hospital.
65 per cent. of the cases notified were children of school
age, five to fifteen years, and of these, 32 attended the following
schools:—
Cottenham Park Mixed and Infants' 2
Haydons Road Boys' 2
Russell Road Infants' 1
Queen's Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 2
Haydons Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 4
Pelham Road Infants' School 4
Effra Girls' and Infants' 7
Queen's Road Boys' 2
Pelham Central 1
Private Schools 2
Schools outside the district 5
Total 32
Tuberculosis.—The administrative control of Tuberculosis
is placed under the County Medical Officers, but District Medical
Officers are also required to keep special registers under the
Tuberculosis Regulations. The difficulties of accurate keeping
of such registers and of securing some uniformity between the
Registers of the County and District Medical Officers are well
known.
During 1927, the Surrey County Medical Officer has been
endeavouring to obtain greater accuracy in records and for this
purpose furnished lists of cases on his registers to the District
Medical Officers. The final adjustment of registers has still to
be made, but it is apparent that there are considerable discrepancies.
In actual numbers the errors did not appear to be great,
but a comparison of lists of actual cases showed that 65 names
were on the Central list which were not on the District list, and
73 cases were on the District list which were not on the Central
register. Thus while the totals only differed by 8 cases, the
actual difference was 138.
These errors had arisen through "transfers" from other
areas, change of address, and cases classified as "cured."
Of the lists as given by the County Medical Officer the numbers
within the Wimbledon area might be classified as follows:—
41