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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
From these figures it would appear that school infection was
not so important a factor in the spread of Diphtheria as in 1907,
when the percentage of children in attendance at school was 49,
and not in attendance 44.
A further examination of the Table shows that in Putney four
cases only occurred in connection with schools in the last nine
months of the year, and if it had not been for the eight cases
which occurred in Roehampton in January, only 11 cases would
have been notified from that sub-district.
Of the total cases notified, 54 were incorrectly diagnosed,
compared with 44 in 1907, leaving a total of 527, compared with585
in 1907, 531 in 1906, and 312 in 1905.
Only 11 cases occurred in connection with private schools,
compared with 21 in 1907, and 48 in 1906.
No cases of Diphtheria were notified as having occurred in
children attending the following elementary schools in the
Borough.
In Clapham:—
Aristotle Road.
Cavendish Road.
Clapham Parochial, Macaulay Road.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic, Crescent Lane.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic, Park Place.
In Putney:—
All Saints', Lower Common.
Convent School, Roehampton.
Deodar Road.
Girls' School, Walker's Place.
In Streatham:—
Christchurch, Roupell Park.
Hitherfield Road.
Holy Trinity, Upper Tulse Hill.
Nightingale Square Roman Catholic.
St. Andrew's, Colmer Road.
St. Andrew's, Polworth Road.
St. Leonard's, Mitcham Lane.
St. Mary's, Balham.