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In the following three instances in which three or more cases
occurred in one classroom, the prompt closure of the affected class-
room, together with the exclusion of the children living in the same
house as the children attending that classroom was attended with
successful results.
Between May 23rd and May 26th there were four cases among
children attending classroom E in the Infants' Department of
St. Dunstan's School and the room was in consequence closed on
May 27th, until June 13th and on May 30th two cases having
occurred in classroom F in the same Department, that room was
also closed until the same day. There were subsequently five other
cases among children who had been attending the affected classrooms
but none among the children in the rest of the School.
Between June 18th and 20th three cases of Diphtheria were
reported in classroom D, in the Infant's Department of William
Street Board School, and on bacteriological examination it was also
ascertained that another child must have been attending that class
while suffering from a mild attack of the disease. The room was
at once closed at the request of the Vestry for a fortnight and
though two other children belonging to the same class were subsequently
affected, there were no other cases in the rest of the School.
On October 10th and 11th four children attending classroom E
of the Infants' Department of Ackmar Road Board School were
notified as suffering from Diphtheria, and the room was closed
until October 26th. Four other children who had been attending
the class were subsequently notified, but with the exception of
four secondary cases occurring in the families of the affected
children in classroom E, there were no other cases in the School
until October 30th.
It was subsequently ascertained that a child had been attending
classroom E between October 1st and October 10th, who from the
results of a bacteriological examination had undoubtedly been
suffering at the time from a mild attack of Diphtheria.
COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF DIPHTHERIA
IN FULHAM.
In London there was a decided diminution of cases of Diphtheria,
11,561 cases being notified as compared with 13,192 in 1897.