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notification of Chickenpox is dealt with at length in the Smallpox
Report (vide Appendix, Special Report). The result of the
notification was to show that Chickenpox was epidemic throughout
the Borough during the year 1902 (but especially in the
Norwood District), and, in consequence, 5 Schools (2 public
and 3 private) had to be closed for periods of 3 weeks, the
disease having broken out therein: —
(a) Jessop Road Board School (Infants' Department).
(b) St. Luke's School, Elden Road, West Norwood.
(c) Mayfield College, Barston Road, West Norwood.
(d) Private School in Wolfington Road, West Norwood.
(e) Private School in Park Road, West Norwood.
In each case the result was the same—a marked diminution in
the number of cases amongst the Scholars. After closure, the
class-rooms were disinfected and the premises cleansed.
St. Stephen's Schools were also disinfected, but not closed, on
account of an outbreak therein of Chickenpox.
CHOLERA AND PLAGUE.
In Lambeth Borough, during 1902, no case of Plague, suspected
or otherwise, was notified.
One case of Cholera* was notified, but no death registered
from that disease.
Six "contacts" were watched in connection with outbreaks of
Plague and Cholera elsewhere (two in contact with Plague, and
4 with Cholera, patients).
* This was, in all probability, a case of Epidemic (or Infantile) Diarrhoea,
and is the only one notified throughout the whole of the Administrative
County of London during 1902.