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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In Clapham, out of a total of 49 cases, 21 or 45 per cent.
occurred in children attending school; in Putney, of 16 cases, four
or 25 per cent.; in Streatham, of 85 cases, 39 or 45.8 per cent.;
in Tooting, of 63 cases, 30 or 47.6 per cent.; in Wandsworth, of
71 cases, 29 or 40.8 per cent.; and in the whole Borough, of 284
cases, 123 were in attendance at schools in the Borough, and 13
at schools outside the Borough, a total of 136, or 48 per cent.
Of the remaining cases, viz. :—148, in 39 or 137 per cent.,
the diagnosis was incorrect, and 109 or 38 per cent. were not in.
attendance at school.
In Clapham the number of cases of Diphtheria in attendance
at school was small. In six of the schools only one case occurred
in each during the year, in four two cases, in one three cases, and
in one four cases. In Putney also, only one case occurred in two
schools, and two cases in one school. In eight months of the year
in Putney no cases were notified among children attending school-
In Streatham, Welham Road with nine cases and Eardley
Road with seven were the highest. Five of the cases in the
former school occurred in March, and five in the latter school in.
September. The five cases in Eardley Road School all occurred
in one classroom, and prompt measures were at once taken to
prevent further extension of the disease, with the result that no
further cases occurred in the school during the rest of the year.
Of the five cases in Welham Road School in September,
three were members of the same family.
The sub-district of Tooting was also very free from Diphtheria
for six months of the year, from April to September inclusive,
no cases occurred.
Ensham Street and Franciscan Road Schools had nine cases
each, but in neither school was any particular classroom involved.
In Wandsworth there were only 29 cases and these occurred
at irregular intervals during the year. In six of the schools only
one case occurred in each, in three two cases, in two three cases
in each, in one four cases, and seven cases occurred in the various
private schools.