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City of Westminster 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Information reached me through schools of 145 cases, and 6 children
were excluded on account of cases in their homes.
Schools and Infectious Diseases.
The teachers of Board Schools are required to notify me when they
exclude children on account of infectious disease; the teachers of
Voluntary Schools have been invited to do likewise, so that they may
not lose the grant by the absence of such children.
The Following list show how far this has been carried out and the cases notifies:-
| School. | Actual Cases. | Infection in House. | Other Causes. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Mumps. | Whooping-cough. | Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Mumps. | Whooping cough. | ||
| Charing Cross Road Board | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | — | 1 | - | - | 2 ophthalmia. |
| Horseferry Road Board | 8 | 38 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 18 | 1 | — | 6 ringworm. |
| James Street Board | 11 | 52 | 2 | 13 | — | — | - | — | |
| Pulteney Board | 3 | 12 | 1G | 11 | 2 | 3 | - | — | |
| Millbank Board | 8 | 38 | 22 | 31 | 3 | 19 | 1 | — | 5 ringworm. |
| St. George's Row Board | 33 | 5 | 3 | — | 13 | 3 | 1 | — | 2 ,, |
| Vere Street Board | - | 8 | 1 | 1 | 26 | - | 5 | ||
| Tower Street Board | 1 | 13 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | |
| Brompton Higher Grade | 18 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 ringworm. 3 eczema. 2 ophthalmia. 4 influenza. |
| Holy Trinity, Vauxhall Bridge Road | 1 | 14 | 39 | 22 | 2 | 31 | — | — | |
| St. Anne's, Dean Street | — | 37 | — | — | — | 4 | - | — | |
| St. Anselm's | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | - | — | ||
| St. Clement Danes | - | - | 15 | - | 11 | - | 12 ringworm. 5 ophthalmia. | ||
| St. Gabriel's | 43 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | - | 1 | 17 ringworm. 1 ophthalmia. |
| St. John's, Tufton Street | — | 6 | — | 12 | — | - | - | — | 1 ringworm. |
| St. Mary's, Hide Place | — | 5 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | |
| St. Matthew's | — | — | — | 2 | 6 | - | — | ||
| St, Paul's, Wilton Place | — | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| St, Paul's Mission | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | — | |
| St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Street | 6 | 6 | — | — | 5 | 5 | - | — | |
| St. Stephen's | — | 3 | — | — | — | 5 | - | — | |
| St. Vincent | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 137 | 294 | 98 | 145 | 39 | 144 | 3 | 6 | ||
The School Board have opened a new school on the Millbank Estate
to accommodate 794 children, including a special school for 60
children and a manual training centre for 40 boys. The cost of the
site was £6,245, building £30,846, and furniture £574, a total of
£37,665. From the report of the School Board for the year endingLady
Day, 1902, I find that the Pulteney School had its sanitary
arrangements overhauled at a cost of £1,764 18-s. At no distant
date Vere Street School will be pulled down in connection with the
Holborn to Strand Street. In the Westminster Division there was in
the spring of 1902 an excess of 373 school places over scholars. The
figures were :—-
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