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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 61
With regard to Measles, 390 cases were notified from schools
in Clapham, 165 in Putney, 720 in Streatham, 549 in Tooting, and
1,031 in Wandsworth.
The schools chiefly affected were, in Clapham, Bonneville
Road, Haselrigge Road and Telferscot Road; in Putney, Hotham
Road; in Streatham, Broadwater Road, Eardley Road, Mitcham
Lane, Oldridge Road, Smallwood Road, and St. Leonard's; in
Tooting, Franciscan Road and Sellincourt Road; and in Wandsworth,
the Earlsfield, Eltringham Street, Garratt Lane, Riversdale,
Southfield, Swaffield Road, Waldron Road, and the Wandle. 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.