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The age-periods of the patients are set out in Table III., and show that
nearly 83 per cent. of them were children between the ages of 1 and 15.
The average age of all the cases was a little over 10 years, the oldest being
45 and the youngest 1, but the average age of the great majority of the patients
was about 7 years. 55 were males and 50 females.
65 of the total cases were children attending the public elementary schools,
the details of these cases being as follows:—
Blue School
1
Hounslow Heath
3
Brentford End
1
Hounslow Town
20
Catholic
3
Spring Grove
3
Grove Road
16
St. Mary's
3
Green
1
-
Heston
14
Total
65
It should be noted that the above cases were spread over the whole year;
at no time did the number of notifications from any one school amount to an
epidemic in that particular school. 55 of the school children suffering from
Diphtheria were removed to Mogden, forming over 63 per cent. of the total
cases of Diphtheria from this district treated in the Hospital.
During the year 13 deaths were notified as due to Diphtheria, and one
from croup, a disease very closely allied to it.
The question of infectious disease and the public elementary schools is
dealt with in the Appendix at the end of this Report, but the following brief
summary showing the ratio of school cases to all others during the year may be
given here:—
Scarlet Fever.
Total number of cases notified 85
Number attending public elementary schools 57
Proportion of school children—67.0 per cent.
Diphtheria.
Total number of cases notified 105
Number attending public elementary schools 55
Proportion of school children—61.9 per cent.