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occupied a gipsy caravan in High Street, and it was absolutely
impossible to provide means of isolation. An ambulance was
sent, but the parents positively refused to allow the child to be
removed. Notice was therefore served upon the occupier, and
application made to the magistrate for his order, which was
granted, and forthwith carried into effect.
Several class rooms at Winstanley Road Board School were
disinfected in consequence of the prevalence of scarlet fever
amongst the children attending the school.
Early in March complaint was made as to undue prevalence
of scarlet fever in No. 1 District, and especially in connection
with St. George's Schools, New Road. The matter was enquired
into, and it was found that during the first three months of the year
twenty-five cases of notifiable infectious disease occurred in houses
where the children were attending St. George's School, that such
diseases included twenty scarlet fever, three diphtheria, one erysipelas,
and one membranous croup; that the streets affected by
these twenty-five cases were Corunna Road, two houses, twocases;
Wadhurst Road, three houses, three cases; Stewarts Road, six
houses, seven cases; Ascalon Street, two houses, three cases;
Thessaly Square, one house, one case; Corunna Place, two
houses, two cases; Patmore Street, two houses, two cases;
Mundella Terrace, one house, one case; Mundella Road, one
house, one case; Tidemore Street, one house, one case; Dashwood
Road, one house, one case; Savona Street, one house, one case;
and that the cases had occurred during the undermentioned
periods:—Period ending January 2nd, three cases; two weeks
ending January 16th, two cases; two weeks ending January 30th,
twocases; two weeks ending February 13th, eleven cases; two
weeks ending February 27th, eight cases; and that no cases had
occurred since that date.
The figures given tend to prove that no undue number
of cases had occurred at the School in question, the attendance