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On October 15th, two children were notified, who, I was
informed, had attended class-room " H," Infants' Department, up
to October 12th, but I have since ascertained that I was misinformed
respecting C.S., and that he attended class " F," and that
it was his brother who was in class " H." On October 19th, a
boy in Langford Road, not attending any school, was notified as
suffering from Diphtheria, and on making enquiries, I found that
his sister had been attending class " H " up till October 16th, and
was said to have had prior to that date, a " cold and slight sore
throat," and on bacteriological examination, the Bacillus Diphtherias
was isolated from the nasal secretion, so that it would
appear that this child was attending class-room " H," while in an
infective condition. On October 20th and 22nd, two children
were notified who had been attending claps "H " up to October
19th, and, at my request, the Head-mistress of the Infants'
Department furnished me with the names of 12 other children
who were said to be absent from that class on account of illness.
These I visited, and three of them I found to be suffering from
undoubted Diphtheria, two of whom had been attending class "H"
up to October 19th, while the third had been sent home ill from
that class on the day I saw her, viz., October 22nd. I also found
two other children who then showed no clinical signs of Diphtheria,
but had a history of some slight throat trouble, and on
bacteriological examination, the Bacillus Diphtherife was isolated
in each case.
Therefore, since October 12th, in a class with an average
attendance, since the holidays, of 90, and with 110 on the roll,
there had been 6 cases of Diphtheria of a rather severe type, viz.:—
F.S., last attendance, October 12th.
ID., „ „ „ 19th.
L.B., „ „ „ „
H N., „ „ „ „
J.F., „ „ „ „
P.F.,„ „ „ 22nd.
Of these, 5 had, so far as I could ascertain, no relations with
each other except in school, their homes lay in opposite directions,
and there had been no other cases in them; in fact up to that