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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Putney, 12 out of 39, or 31 per cent.; in Streatham, 201 out of 360,.
or 55 per cent.; in Tooting-, 50 out of 88, or 57 per cent.; and in
Wandsworth, 131 out of 273, or 48 per cent.
The percentage in Tooting is calculated after deduction of the
cases notified from Institutions in that sub-district.
In Claphani the schools chiefly affected were Telferscot Road,
Cavendish Road, New Park Road, and St. Andrew's Street. In
the latter school cases had occurred in the latter part of the year
1908, the cases in 1909 occurring only during the first six months
of the year, and four out of 11 cases occurred in January.
In Telferscot Road School seven cases occurred in April,,
three of these occurring in one house, and the first of these beingpossibly
the cause of the other two cases.
Of the five cases that occurred in Cavendish Road School,
two occurred in one house.
There was no sequence of cases in the other schools in Clapham
that call for special notice.
In Putney only 12 cases occurred among children attending;
school, and in none of these was there definite evidence that infection
had been received at school.
In Streatham the schools chiefly affected were Hearnville
Road, Eardley Road, Sunnyhill Road, and YVelham Road.
In Hearnville Road 40 cases occurred, five in April, six in
May, 10 in June, and 11 in July, and, as in that month the number
of cases showed no signs of lessening although frequent visits had
been made to the school and individual children excluded, I
advised that the school should be closed so that not only could
the school be thoroughly disinfected and cleansed, but unrecognised
cases, which appeared to be present in spite of careful
examination, would have time to become non-infective.