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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
During the year 621 visits were made in cases of this disease,
(compared with 2,164 in 1913). 182 in Clapham, 28 in Putney,
220 in Streatham, 64 in Tooting, and 127 in Wandsworth.
Table XLVII. shows the number of cases of notifiable and nonnotifiable
diseases notified by the teachers of the elementary schools
in the Borough.
In all, 5,802 cases were notified, compared with 4,907 in 1913,
4,706 in 1912, and 6,785 in 191I.
464 of these were cases of Measles, 997 of Chicken-pox, 842 of
Whooping Cough, 1,661 of Mumps, and 312 of Ringworm.
There was an increase in the number of cases of Whooping
Cough, Chicken-pox and Mumps, and a decrease in the number of
cases of Measles and Ringworm.
With regard to Measles, 153 cases were notified from schools
in Clapham, 38 in Putney, 137 in Streatham, 45 in Tooting, and
91 in Wandsworth.
The schools chiefly affected were, in Clapham, Haselrigge Road
and Telferscot Road ; in Putney, Roehampton National ; in
Streatham, Hearnville Road and Oldridge Road; in Tooting,
Franciscan Road and Sellincourt Road ; and in Wandsworth, the
Earlsfield and Swaffield Road. Very few of the schools were quite
free from the disease, but 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 the Report for 1911, and disinfection
of the premises after cases had recovered,