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1938] 96
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN CASES OF PUERPERAL
SEPSIS.
During the year no swab submitted.
SPECIAL BACTERIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL EXAMINATIONS.
Most of the work under this heading was in connection with alleged food
poisoning, and the Ministry of Health Laboratory gave us very considerable help
by examining samples submitted to them.
In addition, examinations were made of 5 specimens submitted by practitioners
to be examined bacteriologically for streptococci (suspected Scarlet Fever), 4 were
positive and I negative; Dysentery 2, both negative, and one specimen of blood
for tubercle bacilli—negative.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
1,036 cases of the notifiable infectious diseases occurred in the Public Elementary
Schools of the Borough, of which 335 were Scarlet Fever and 291 Diphtheria.

In addition to the above, 310 notifications of Chicken-pox, which was made
notifiable in Islington in 1930, were received.
Non-Notifiable Diseases.—5,012 cases came to the knowledge of the Medical
Officer of Health during the year, viz., 1,952 cases of Measles, 1,192 cases of Chickenpox
not notifiable under the Chicken-pox (Islington) Regulations, 1930; 467 of
Whooping Cough, and 1,401 of other diseases.
The information respecting these cases was received from the teachers of schools
within the borough, parents, and other sources.
Exclusion of Scholars from Schools.—1,578 children were excluded from
classrooms of various schools owing to the presence of infectious disease, chiefly
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, in the houses wherein they lived.

*Note.—"Other Diseases" include Mumps, Scabies, Ophthalmia, etc.