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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 79
During the year 1,802 visits were made in cases of this disease,
(compared with 4,136 in 1911), 401 in Clapham, 114 in Putney,
331 in Streatham, 243 in Tooting, and 713 in Wandsworth.
Table XLVI. shows the number of cases of notifiable and
non-notifiable diseases notified by the teachers of the elementary
schools in the Borough.
In all, 4,706 cases were notified, compared with 6,785 in 1911,
4,617 in 1910, and 4,342 in 1909.
1,095 of these were cases of Measles, 763 of Chicken-pox,
1,014 of Whooping Cough, 551 of Mumps, and 379 of Ringworm.
There was a large decrease in the number of cases of Measles,
a slight decrease in the number of cases of Mumps and Ringworm,
and an increase in the number of cases of Chicken-pox and Whooping
Cough.
With regard to Measles, 276 cases were notified from schools
in Clapham, 68 in Putney, 155 in Streatham, 130 in Tooting,
and 466 in Wandsworth.
The schools chiefly affected were, in Clapham, Bonneville
Road, Cavendish Road, Telferscot Road, New Park Road and
St. Andrew's Street ; in Putney, All Saints' and St. Mary's ; in
Streatham, Mitcham Lane and Smallwood Road; in Tooting,
Franciscan Road; and in Wandsworth, Brandlehow Road,
Waldron Road, Wandle, Garratt Lane and Riversdale. Very
few of the schools were quite free from the disease, and in a considerable
proportion only a few cases occurred.
As in former years 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.