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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
City of Westminster 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The following list shows how far this has been carried out and the cases notified:—
| School. | Actual Cases. | Infection in House. | Other Causes. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Mumps. | Whooping-cough. | Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Mumps. | Whooping-cough. | ||
| Board schools :— | |||||||||
| Charing Cross Road | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | — | — | |
| Horseferry Road | — | 24 | 2 | — | — | 34 | 1 | 3 | 4 ringworm. |
| James Street | — | 24 | 27 | 2 | _ | 35 | 7 | 2 | 1 „ |
| Pulteney | — | 23 | — | — | 1 | 23 | — | 1 | |
| Millbank | 48 | 105 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 6 | — | — | 7 ringworm. |
| St. George's Row | 4 | 40 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 18 „ |
| Vere Street | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 ophthalmia. |
| Great Wild Street | 3 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| Voluntary schools:— Brompton Higher Grade | 7 ringworm. 1 eczema. 4 influenza. | ||||||||
| Holy Trinity, Vauxhall Bridge Road | 21 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 30 | — | — | |
| St. Anne's, Dean Street | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | 1 ringworm. |
| St. Clement Danes | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | — | — | 11 ringworm. 1 ophthalmia. |
| St. Gabriel's | 1 | 9 | 7 | 37 | 2 | 6 | — | 3 | 11 ringworm. |
| St. John's, Tufton Street | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 „ |
| St. Mary's, Hide Place | — | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| St. Paul's, Wilton Place | — | 11 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | |
| St. Paul's, Caroline Street | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| St. Peter's,. Lower Belgraye Street | — | — | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| St. James the Less | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | |
| St. Martin's, Castle Street | 1 | 20 | 2 | — | — | 8 | — | — | 1 ringworm. |
| 89 | 346 | 105 | 83 | 49 | 177 | 10 | 12 | ||
The system of giving a grant to schools for absence of pupils on
account of epidemic disease has now been given up, as the Board of
Education consider that under the new Education Acts the administration
will be in the hands of the local authorities. Copies of 510
certificates relating to various notifiable diseases were sent to school
teachers during 1903.
Teachers or children attending at the following schools were notified
to be suffering from illness during 1903:—