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[1911
head may be drawn back, owing to the retraction of the posterior muscles of
the neck.
A very full account of this disease has been recently published by the
Local Government Board in their new series of Reports on Public Health and
Medical Subjects, No. 61.
During the year 1 case of the disease was notified.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS.
710 cases of infectious disease notifiable under the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act 1891 were reported during the year, or 206 less
than the average which obtained during the preceding ten years (see Table
CXX.).
Scarlet Fever was accountable for 424 cases which, although 212 less
than the average of the ten years 1901-1910 was an increase on that of
the preceding year, when 369 scholars were attacked.
Diphtheria.—With respect to it 272 scholars were affected as compared
with a decennial average of 234, and with 197 in the preceding year. There
was thus a decrease of 38 cases on the mean of the ten years.
Enteric Fever was responsible for 14 cases, or 18 less than the average
of the decennial period, although five more than were known in 1910.
Of other diseases no case was known, as compared with 13 in the ten
years 1901-1910.
It may be stated that the 710 cases among scholars formed 40.4 per cent,
of all the cases of the these diseases notified in the borough during the year.
This is a decrease of 1.6 per cent, on the percentage which obtained during
1901-1910.