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1906
know what time the Inspector will call and I will make arrangements
for someone to be there, as you will see by the above address that
I am not staying there.
Thanking you for same,
Yours faithfully,
A. E. Harris, Esq., F. C. M
Medical Officer of Health,
Town Hall, Islington, N.
From the above facts it may be judged that the Sanitary Staff of the
Borough are performing thoroughly good work.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
An examination of the investigation sheets of the Sanitary Inspectors disclosed
the fact that out of the total of 2,276 cases of infectious diseases notified
by the medical profession, 998 were children who attended one or other of the
public elementary schools in the borough, and that 508 children who were not
scholars lived in houses from which other children attended these schools.
Thus 43.9 per cent, of the total number of notifications were children attending
school and 22.3 per cent, were children who lived in the same house with
scholars. The returns further show that the scholars suffered from the
following diseases:—
Scarlet Fever 785
Diphtheria 177
Enteric Fever 33
Other notifiable diseases 3
998
These figures compare with 640 cases of Scarlet Fever, 138 cases of
Diphtheria, 31 of Enteric Fever, and 23 of other diseases in 1905, and are in
excess of the returns so far as Scarlatina is concerned since 1902, and of
Diphtheria and Enteric Fever since 1903, while other diseases were below
previous records.
A return is given below, showing the number of scholars attacked with
each disease since 1896.