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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Chart shows the number of cases notified during each
week of the year.
The maximum number of cases was notified in the third week
of December, when 40 cases occurred, and the minimum in the
last week of August, when only two cases occurred.
In the first week of March, 24 cases were notified, and in the
last week 23 cases, the increase being due to the number of cases
in Tooting, Streatham and Wandsworth, but there was no
special outbreak, the cases being scattered over a large area.
In Streatham and Tooting school infection played a considerable
part and this was chiefly noticeable in Oldridge Road,
Smallwood Road, and Tooting Graveney Schools.
Until the month of November the number of cases of Diphtheria
notified was under the average, but in that month there
was a slight increase, this increase being observed in all the subdistricts
except Putney. In the third week of December 40 cases
were notified, this being almost wholly due to an outbreak in
connection with Roehampton School.
There were only two outbreaks during the year that call for
special notice, one a very slight one in the Intermediate Schools,
Wandsworth, and the other in connection with the National
School, Roehampton.
The following report, which was laid before the Public Health
Committee, gives full details of this outbreak in the Intermediate
Schools, Wandsworth.
"13th June, 1907.
"I have to report the occurrence of a slight outbreak of
Diphtheria in the Intermediate Schools, Swaffield Road,
Wandsworth.
"These schools are occupied by children of paupers
belonging to the Boroughs of Battersea and Wandsworth,
and I have been informed that they have been certified to
accommodate 103 children. At the time of my visit there
were nearly 150 children residing on the premises, a condition
of things which would, in my opinion, facilitate the
spread of an infectious disease such as Diphtheria.
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