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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Islington 1916

Sixty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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[1916
THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
Five hundred and eighty-two cases of the notifiable infectious diseases, or
40.4 per cent. of all the cases notified under the Public Health (London) Act,
1691, occurred in the Public Elementary Schools of the Borough, of which 319
were Scarlet Fever, 262 Diphtheria, and 1 Enteric Fever.
These contrast with a ten years' average of 914 scholars and a percentage
of 433 of the total cases notified.

Table: Showing theScholarsattacked by theNotifiable Infectious Diseasesin thePublic Elementary Schools.

Showing theScholarsattacked by theNotifiable Infectious Diseasesin thePublic 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.
1900..78517733399843.9
1907..60821611183640.5
1908..80923019..105846.2
1909..73718416193845.8
1910..36919713..57938.0
1911..42427214..71040.4
1912..4302017..63840.5
1913..7582523..1,01346.6
1914..1,03235011..1.39347.3
1915..7082671..97644.2
Ten years' Average..66623513..91443.3
1916..3192621..58240.4
Increase or Decrease on Average..-347+ 27-12..-332-2.9

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Non-Notifiable Diseases.—4,844 cases came to the knowledge of the
Medical Officer of Health during the quarter, viz.:—1,259 cases of Measles,
537 of Whooping Cough, 716 of Chicken Pox, and 2,332 cases of other
diseases.
The information respecting these cases was received from the teachers of
57 schools.