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Schools and Infectious Disease.
School teachers are required to notify the Medical Officer of Health
when they exclude children on account of iufectious disease. The
following list shows how far this was carried out and the nature of the
cases notified:—
Cases of
1st
Quarter.
2nd
Quarter.
3rd
Quarter.
4th
Quarter.
Year
1914.
Measles 9 23 13 23 168
Whooping-cough 46 125 34 38 243
Mumps 105 120 25 40 290
Chickenpox 84 38 21 48 191
School.
Actual Cases.
Infection in House.
Other Causes.
Chickenpox.
Measles.
Mumps.
Whoopingcough.
Chickenpox.
Measles.
Mumps.
Whoopingcough.
Buckingham Gate 1 2 5 4 — 2 — 1 2 ringworm..
Horseferry Road 2 5 9 9 1 4 1 — 2 ringworm.
Millbank 7 2 6 9 7 2 1 3 4 5 ringworm.
Pulteney 8 3 — 10 1 1 — 4
St. George's Row 3 8 26 11 3 3 — 7 3 ringworm.
Wild Street — — — 18 — — — 2 2 ringworm.
Brompton Higher Grade — — — 5 — — — — 1 ringworm.
Burdett Coutts 4 — 47 23 1 — — 6 5 ringworm.
Cathedral, Great Peter Street 1 — — — — — — — 2 itch.
Christ Church 8 — 9 15 2 1 — 4
Holy Trinity 15 1 9 19 12 — 1 — l ringworm.
St. Anne's 18 28 16 9 9 — — — 10 ringworm.
St. Anselm's — — — — — — — —
St. Barnabas 17 — 25 12 3 1 — — 8 ringworm.
St. Clement Danes 1 33 — 4 — 15 — —
St. Edward's, Dufour's Place 8 1 — 1 4 — — —
St. Gabriel's 3 15 7 34 3 6 — 12 11 ringworm.
St. George's, South Street 37 3 — 13 8 1 — 3 7 ringworm.
St. James the Less 36 2 10 27 21 3 3 11 3 ringworm.
St. James'and St. Peter's 1 11 — 1 — 5 — —
St. Margaret's — 1 4 7 — — — 1
St. Martin's, Adelaide Place 2 31 — — — 4 — —
St. Martin's, Castle Street — — — — — — — —
St. Mary's, Hide Place 3 4 13 14 2 7 — 1
St. Matthew's 7 1 7 8 4 4 3 3 3 ringworm.
St. Michael's 7 3 19 — 1 11 1 3 ringworm
2 itch
St. Paul's 1 14 3 — 1 8 — — 6 ringworm.
St. Peter's, Lower Belgrave Place 1 — — — 1 — — —
Wesleyan Training — — 1 2 — — — 3
191 168 279 243 79 67 12 63
A copy of each notification of fever, diphtheria, &c., received from
medical men is sent to the head teacher of the school attended by the
patient (if a child), or by any child who is an inmate of the same house
as the patient. In this way 1,033 notifications were sent out during .
1914 to school teachers as follows:—