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Sixty per cent of the cases notified were children of
school age, five to fifteen years, and of these, forty-one
attended the following schools:—
Old Central Schools 2
Effra Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 6
Durnsford Road Mixed and Infants' Schools 6
Pelham Road Infants' School 6
Pelham Central Schools 2
Dundonald Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 2
Russell Road Mixed School 6
Haydons Road Girls' School 1
Haydons Road Infants' School 1
Special School 1
Private Schools 5
Schools outside the district 3
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Diphtheria.— The total number of cases notified during
the year was seventy-four from sixty-one houses. The attack
rate was 1.25 per thousand of the population.
In four houses there were three cases, in five houses two
cases, and in the remaining fifty-two houses, one case.
Seventy-one, or 96 per cent. of the patients, were treated
in the Isolation Hospital.
Fifty-nine per cent. of the cases notified were children of
school age, five to fifteen years, and of these, forty-two
attended the following schools:—
Dundonald Boys' 1
Cottenham Park 2
Dundonald Girls' and Infants' 4
Russell Road Mixed and Infants' 3
Haydons Road Boys' 2
Queen's Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 10
Haydons Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 6
Pelham Road Infants' School 1
Effra Girls' and Infants' 4
Queen's Road Boys' 2
Durnsford Road Mixed 4
Schools outside the district 2
Private Schools 1
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