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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The schools chiefly affected were, in Clapham, Bonneville
Rood, Cavendish Road and Telferscot Road ; in Putney, Hotham
Road ; in Streatham, Mitcham Lane, Smallwood Road, and'
Eardley Road; in Tooting, Franciscan Road, Ensham Street,
Sellincourt Road and Fountain Road ; and in Wandsworth, Swaffield
Road, Waldron Road, Elliott Central, Wandle, Garratt Lane
and Earlsfield. Very few of the schools were free from the disease,
ard from information received from private individuals and medical
men it was ascertained that in most of the private schools cases
had occurred.
The means adopted for the prevention of the spread of the
disease were exclusion from school, education of the parents of children
where cases had occurred by means of the pamphlet published
in last year's Report, and disinfection of the premises after cases
had recovered.
As far as could be ascertained from the notifications received
from the elementary schools, the disease first showed in epidemic
form in the month of January in Telferscot Road School, and next
in Cavendish Road School. These schools, although in Clapham,
yet draw a large proportion of their children from Balham. The
disease then spread to Tooting and Wandsworth, next to Streatham,
Putney remaining comparatively free. The Education Department
of the London County Council were at the same time informed by
the teachers, and Table XLIX. shuws the schools in which it
was thought necessary to exclude infants in attendance.
It will be seen from this Table, as well as from the Table of
the number of disinfections carried out, that the disease was most
prevalent in February and March, and as in these months the
climatic conditions are such as to favour the occurrence of the more
fatal complications of Measles, the case mortality was exceptionally
heavy. In nearly all the cases Bronchitis or Pneumonia was given
as the secondary cause of death.