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CLOSURE OF SCHOOLS.
In consequence of the prevalence of Diphtheria among the
children attending the Infants' Department of the Ackmar Road Board
School during the end of February and beginning of March, at the
request of the Sanitary Authority the Department was dosed from
March 6th to March 27th.
In October a number of cases occurred among the children
attending Class A of the Intants' Department of Star Road Board
School, and that Class was closed from October 24th to November 10th,
and the children living in the same houses as the children attending
that Class were also excluded.
COMPARATIVE PREVALENCE OF DIPHTHERIA IN FULHAM.
In London there was an increase of Diphtheria in 1899, 13692
cases being notified, against 11,561 in 1898.
The disease showed the highest proportional prevalence in Cam berwell,
St. Saviour, Lewisham, Newington, Bermondsey and St.
George, Southwark, in which districts the case-rates were higher than
that of Fulham, and in 15 districts the disease was more fatal than in
Fulham.
The comparative prevalence and fatality of Diphtheria, during
recent years, in Fulham, the adjoining parishes and London, will be
seen from the two following tallies, which give the rates of incidence
and mortality of the disease in the several localites: —