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The conclusions to be drawn from the bacteriological
results connected with the distributors may be summarised
as follow:—
1. Regular distributors Nos. 2 and 19 were "carriers"
(actual);
2. Regular distributor No. 12 and "odd" man E.F.
were "carriers" (probable).
Full particulars as to the farm infection and the
bacteriological results in connection therewith will be
found on pages 41 and 42 and Table VI.
4. School Influence.
Enquiries made as to any school influence, or influences,
at work in connection with the outbreak proved
negative, though, at one time, it was thought that a
private school in Lewisham and a dancing academy in
Anerley were acting, in some way, at least as contributory
causes, several Lambeth patients attending there
prior to being notified as suffering from diphtheria. The
Medical Officers of the districts concerned made
enquiries, but failed to discover anything suspicious, so
that these two sources of infection were discarded as
even probable contributory causes.
9 of the Lambeth cases were connected with the
London County Council schools, as follows: Woodland
Road 5, Gipsy Road 2, Salter's Hill I, Eden Road
(Wesleyan) I; 4 with the Lewisham private school: 1 with
the Dulwich Coltege Preparatory; 1 with a College at
Kensington, and 3 with private Lambeth schools. The
Lambeth schools, as a whole, however, did not appear,
upon investigation, to have caused any part of the
milk borne outbreak, and. in thre other districts affected
by the outbreak, the same was found to be true of the
schools there. These decisions were corns to only after
careful investigation and enquiry, as it is now generally
recognised that school influence is often at work in