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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 1899

Forty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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139
[1899
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
Inquiries into the notifiable infectious diseases showed that
1,087 the sufferers were children attending Public Elementary
Schools, and that 670 scholars, who had not been themselves
attacked, lived in houses in which the diseases were present.
Of the 1087 scholars who were attacked
725 suffered from Scarlet Fever
290 „ „ Diphtheria
61 ,, ,, Enteric Fever
11 „ „ from other notifiable diseases.

Table: These figures are higher than those which were known in the two preceding years, though not so high as those of 1896.

These figures are higher than those which were known in the two preceding years, though not so high as those of 1896.

1896189718981899
Small Pox ...3———
Scarlet Fever842753640725
Diphtheria...355267206290
Enteric Fever28383761
Other notifiable diseases1212811
Total1,2401,0708911,087

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The number of scholars, who live in infected houses, discovered
in attendance at school was 670, or 56 more than in 1898, but
respectively 154 and 10 less than in 1896 and 1897. The particulars
for each disease for these years is as follows:
1896 1897 1898 1899
Small Pox 17 2 — —
Scarlet Fever 329 284 237 257
Diphtheria. 240 182 163 161
Enteric Fever 72 94 93 95
Other notifiable diseases 166 118 121 157
824 680 614 670
In every instance, except where the disease was Erysipelas,
these scholars were not allowed to return to school until the patients
k 2