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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 17
and three in another, and as the children were in all probability
personally infected one from another, no special significance was
attached to the outbreak.
"Another case was notified on the 1st February, followed
by one on the 3rd, four on the 4th, three on the 7th, one on the 8th,
four on the 9th, and four on the 10th. 26 cases in all being notified
to the 10th February.
"On the 3rd February, a request was made from the Public
Health Department to the London County Council Medical Officer,
Education Department, that the children in the Infants' and
Girls' Departments be examined. These Departments were
visited by the School Medical Officer on the 7th, and the children
examined, with the result that four positive cases were discovered,
one of these residing in Battersea.
"On the 5th February, notice was received from the school
that eight children were suffering from sore throat, and the homes
were at once visited by the Sanitary Inspector, and the parents
advised to have the children seen by a doctor. This was done,
and resulted in four of them being notified after bacteriological
examination.
"The Infants' and Girls' Departments of the school were
closed on the 9th February and disinfection of these Departments
carried out by the Council's staff.
"Since these Departments have been closed, three further
cases have been notified to me, making a total of 29 cases occurring
among children attending this school.
"The outbreak is confined to a small area, the children residing
in Jew's Row, Ram Square, Marl Street, Warple Road,
Warple Way, Bridgefield Grove, Fairfield Street and Morie Street,
and is generally of a very mild character with no clinical symptoms,
many of them only being discovered on bacteriological examination,
and none of them so far proving fatal."