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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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MUMPS.
During 1911 only 80 cases of this disease were reported
from the schools, as compared with 407 in 1910. Downshall
district was most affected, but there it was distributed over
several months, and some of the cases were really glandular
enlargements rather than true mumps. There was a curious
sudden outcrop of 11 cases at Uphall in October, but beyond
that there has been nothing worthy of notice during the year.
The cases were all mild, and no serious complications arose.