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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The throats of all the children in the Infants' and Girls''
Department were swabbed by a Medical Officer from the Education
Department, London County Council, on the 13th January,
1908, and in six cases the Klebs Loeffier bacillus was found.
These cases had no clinical symptoms, but were isolated at once,
and no further cases have since been notified in connection with
the school up to the end of January, 1908.
Some difficulty has been experienced in connection with the
Children's Home, as two of the cases, up to the end of January,
1908, continued to give positive results after bacteriological
examination, but no extension of the disease occurred in the
Institution. The other children in the Home were not permitted
to attend school.
The medical attendant of that Home has, however, taken
every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease in the Home,,
and the children will not be allowed to attend school until they
are all bacteriologically free from the bacillus.
Diphtheria and School Attendance.
The following Table shows the number of cases of Diphtheria
and their relation to the schools in the Borough.