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For full details of these 64 cases see Tables I., V. and VI.
The necessary disinfection was carried out by the Borough
Council's Officials at the Schools.
Origin of the Outbreak,
The School Premises consist of (1) a Main Building, and (2)
Other Buildings.
The Main Building comprises the Administrative Block, and
the 8 Main School Blocks which are known as A, B, C, and D—
North and South.
The Other Buildings are as follows:—Receiving Ward, Probation
Ward, Infirmary, and Isolation Ward; and are situated
away from the Main Building, so as to prevent, with ordinary
administrative care, any inter-communication amongst the respective
inmates of the different Buildings.
Children are received from any part of Lambeth Borough into
the Receiving Ward of the Norwood Schools, and then passed
through a Probation Ward on to the Main Building. The
Infirmary and Isolation Ward are used, as required, for the
treatment and isolation, respectively, of patients from the Main
and Other Buildings, which together constitute the Lambeth
Parochial (West Norwood) Schools.
Such a planning of the School Buildings is exemplary, and
should have prevented an outbreak of infectious disease in the
Main Building, with strict administration.
The outbreak began in the Main School Block known as C
South—the first two children (Emily Grantham and Dorothy
Wilson), notified on May 16th, as suffering from Diphtheria,
occupying beds in the lower dormitory of that particular block.
Of the 5 patients notified and removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital on the following day (May 17th), 3 also
were inmates of the same particular Block—2 (David West and
Florence Cooper) occupying beds in the lower dormitory, and
1 (Florence Cummings), a bed in the upper dormitory. The
* Emily Grantham had not been out in the Public Streets for months, and
had not been visited since March 23rd, 1905.