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1915]
THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
Nine hundred and seventy-six cases of the notifiable infectious diseases,
or 44.2 per cent. of all the cases notified under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891; occurred among the scholars attending the Public Elementary
Schools of the borough, of which 708 were Scarlet Fever, 267 Diphtheria and
1 Enteric Fever.
These contrast with a ten years' average of 899 scholars and a percentage
of 44.1 of the total cases notified.
Table XXXVII.
Showing the Scholars attacked by the Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the
Public Elementary Schools.
Year.
By
Small Pox.
By
Scarlet
Fever.
By
Diphtheria.
By
Enteric
Fever.
By
Other
Diseases.
Total
Scholars
attacked.
Proportion
to every
100 cases
notified.
1905
..
640
138
31
23
832
43.2
1906
..
785
177
33
3
998
43.9
1907
..
608
216
11
1
836
40.5
1908
..
809
230
19
..
1058
46.2
1909
..
737
184
16
1
938
45.8
1910
..
369
197
13
..
579
38.0
1911
..
424
272
14
..
710
40.4
1912
..
430
201
7
..
638
40.5
1913
..
758
252
3
..
1,013
46.6
1914
..
1,032
350
11
..
1,393
47.3
Ten years'
Average
..
659
221
16
3
899
44.1
1915
..
708
267
1
..
976
44.2
Increase or
Decrease on
Average
• •
+49
+46
-15
-3
+77
+ 0.01
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AMONG THE
CHILDREN ATTENDING THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
Six thousand two hundred and eight cases of those Infectious Diseases,
which are not notifiable under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, were
reported by the school teachers to the Medical Officer of Health, and of these
1,897 were Measles, 1,012 Chicken Pox, 724 Whooping Cough, and 2,575
various other diseases.