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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In Clapham, out of a total of no cases, 46 or 42 per cent,
occurred in children attending school ; in Putney, of 34 cases, 17
or 50 per cent. ; in Streatham, of in cases, 55 or 50 per cent ;
in Tooting, of 106 cases, 41 or 387 per cent. ; in Wandsworth, of
149 cases, 65 or 437 per cent. ; and in the whole Borough, of 510
cases, 224 were in attendance at schools in the Borough, and 12
at schools outside the Borough, a total of 236, or 46.2 per cent.
Of the remaining cases, viz. :—274, in 42 or 8 per cent., the
diagnosis was incorrect, and 232 or 45.5 per cent, were not in
attendance at school.
In Clapham the number of cases of Diphtheria in attendance
at school was 46, the greatest number occurring in Haselrigge Road
School and the next in Wirtemberg Street School. Five of the
cases in Haselrigge Road occurred in October and three in August,
while in the other schools in Clapham the cases occurred sporadically
during the year.
In Putney four cases occurred in Hotham Road and four in
Walkers Place Schools, but in five months of the year in Putney
no cases were notified among children attending school.
In Streatham, Welham Road with eight cases and Broadwater
Road with eight cases were the highest. Three of the cases in the
former school occurred in July, and three in the latter school in
February.
The sub-district of Tooting was not so free from Diphtheria
as in the previous year. 10 cases occurred in Franciscan Road,
four of these in July.
Ensham Street and Sellincourt Road Schools had seven cases
each, but in neither school was any particular class-room involved.
In Wandsworth there were 65 cases, and these occurred mainly
in the last three months of the year. In five of the schools only
one case occurred in each, in three two cases, in one three cases,
in one four cases, in one five cases, in two six cases in each, in one
eight cases, in one 13 cases, and eight cases occurred in the various
private schools.