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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
notified, 12 of which occurred in Roehampton, and these were due to
one or two unrecognised cases infecting others, either at school or
while playing in the street after school hours. As soon as the
unrecognised cases were isolated the outbreak ceased.
In Streatham the number of cases notified was slightly above the
average. This increase was due chiefly to the number of cases
notified in the months of October, November and December, when 101
cases out of the total of 220 during the year were notified. Of these
101 cases, 69 occurred in the Streatham Ward and 32 in the Balham
Ward.
The majority of cases in the Streatham Ward occurred in South
Streatham. The streets chiefly affected were Leverson Street (nine
cases), Eardley Road (five cases), Blegboro' Road (four cases), Ellora
Road (four cases), Fallsbrook Road (three cases), Besley Street (three
cases), Eastwood Street (three cases), and Kettering Street (two cases).
Here also the cases were chiefly due to unrecognised cases
infecting others at school, although the influence of school attendance
was not nearly so marked as in the cases at Roehampton. Out of the
total of 69 cases 27 were in attendance at Eardley Road School, and four
at Mitcham Lane, the other cases being in attendance at a number of
different schools in the locality or were under school age.
In the sub-district of Tooting, the greatest number of cases
occurred in the months of October, November and December, when 40
cases out of a total of 84 were notified.
The number notified per 1,000 persons living is only slightly
above that for 1903, and is also above the average tor the whole
Borough.
In the sub-district of Wandsworth, Scarlet Fever was more
prevalent than in any of the other sub-districts, and this prevalence
continued all through the year. The minimum number of notifications
was received in July and the maximum in December. In this subdistrict
also a large proportion of the notifications, 108 out of 286,
were received in the months of October, November and December
while there was also a large proportion received in March, April, May
and June. In these four months there was 110 special outbreak, as the
cases were scattered over the sub-district and were not confined to
particular areas.