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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The increase in May was due to the number of cases occurring in
South Streatham, chiefly from Eardley Road School. There was also
a maximum in October and this was also due to the number of cases
in South Streatham, but chiefly affecting Immauuel School.
With the exception of these two outbreaks there was nothing
calling for special notice in any other part of the Borough.
The Hyde Farm Estate was this year very free from Diphtheria,
only two cases having been reported as attending Cavendish Road
School, compared with 35 in 1903, while only eight cases were
notified from the whole of that neighbourhood. Three of these were
afterwards reported to me as not suffering from Diphtheria.
In only 29 of the 347 actual cases notified were serious sanitary
defects found at the patients' home.
The following Table shows the number of cases of Diphtheria
and their relationship to the schools in the Borough :—