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of them were closed, it being found that the numbers of scholars
affected were too small or that the epidemics were declining ;—
1. Walnut Tree Walk School (Infants' Department);
2. Wesleyan School, Lambeth Road (Infants' Department
and Mixed School) ;
3. Effra Parade School (Infants' Department) ;
4. Salter's Hill School (Infants', Boys', and Girls'
ments) ;
5. Stockwell Road School (Infants' Department);
6. Stockwell Practising School, Stockwell Road (Junior
Girls' Department) ;
7. Jessop Road School (Infants' Department).
Whooping Cough.
Whooping Cough is also a serious disease, especially to young
children. Of the 79 deaths registered in Lambeth Borough
during 1905 from this disease, 77 (i.e., 97.5 per cent.) occurred
in children under 5 years of age, and 40 of the deaths (i.e., 50.6 per
cent.) occurred amongst infants under 1 year of age. It is,
therefore, a disease of childhood, and its prevention ought to be
systematically attempted, chiefly in the way of disinfection of
Whooping Cough infected houses, exclusion from school of
children (both infected and from infected houses), and the
educating of parents up to the dangerous nature of the disease
and the importance of careful nursing of the patients when
suffering from this complaint. Unfortunately, Whooping Cough,
like Measles, is, at present, regarded as a harmless complaint
of childhood, and the ignorance displayed, and the apathy shown,
in regard to these diseases are well known to all who visit amongst
the poorer classes.
During 1905, in the Borough of Lambeth, disinfection has been
carried out in connection with 440 Whooping Cough-infected