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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The principal school affected in Wandsworth was Swaffield
Road, where 13 cases occurred, five in October, and five in November.
Three of the cases in October occurred in one house.
Extended experience in dealing with small outbreaks, such as
occurred in this last school, emphasises the urgent necessity of
swabbing the throats of suspicious cases. In several instances
no diagnosis could possibly have been made from clinical symptoms
alone, and it was only after careful swabbing, not only of the throat
but also of the nasal passages, that the carrier cases causing the
extension of the disease could be discovered.
Of the total number of cases notified 42 were incorrectly
diagnosed, compared with 39 in 1910, leaving a total of 468 actual
cases, compared with 245 in 1910, and 335 in 1909.
No cases of Diphtheria were notified as having occurred in
children attending the following elementary schools in the
Borough :—
In Clapham :—
Aristotle Road.
Bonneville Road.
Christchurch.
New Park Road.
New Road.
St. Mary's, Clapham Park Road.
In Putney :—
National School, Roehampton.
In Streatham :—
Christchurch.
Hitherfield Road.
Roman Catholic, Nightingale Square.
St. Andrews, Polworth Road.
In Wandsworth :—
Roman Catholic, North Side, Wandsworth Common.
St. Michael's.
St. Thomas's.
In all, 14 schools remained free from Diphtheria, compared with
.24 in 1910.