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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
All the sub-districts with the exception of Tooting, which is.
the same, show a decrease compared with the previous year.
The Chart shows the number of cases notified during eacb
week of the year.
The maximum number of cases, viz. :—13, was notified in the
third and fourth weeks of October, and the minimum, viz. one,
in the last week of March, the first week of April, and the fourth
week of July.
At no period of the year was there any outbreak to call for
special notice, and this is due, as was stated in my Reports for
previous years, largely to the methods adopted for dealing with
cases in elementary schools.
Diphtheria and School Attendance.
The following Table shows the number of cases of Diphtheria
and their relationship to the schools in the Borough :—