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London County Council 1948

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Table 17— Cases of infectious illness reported from schools in 1948 and

preceding years

Year	Chicken-pox	Diphtheria	German measles	Impetigo	Measles	Mumps	Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis	Poliomyelitis	Ringworm	Scabies	Scarlet fever	Whooping. cough
1938	11,018	3,576	2,383	1,018	31,852	4,805	342	–	278	2,718	3,988	4,067
1946	5,602	290	349	381	8,291	5,296	251	5	245	1,488	1,654	2,421
1947	7,423	263	1,571	264	6,684	2,845	233	153	180	650	1,974	3,660
1948	7,745	187	491	243	11,545	9,162	297	34	119	323	2,078	3,691

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Table 18— Diphtheria Immunisation—Year ended 31.12.48

Immunisation in relation to Child population	Divisions									Totals
Age at 31-1-48	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Under 5 years (born 1944.1948) Child population	33,505	33,913	25,085	22,508	21,098	27,973	35,906	33,240	36,695	269,923
Immunised	16,990	18,247	14,561	12,596	9,157	15,817	16,131	14,983	20,341	138,823
Per cent.	50.7	53.8	581	55.9	43.4	56.5	44.9	45.1	55.4	51.4
5.14 years (born 1934. 1943)— Child population	44,804	42,691	33,607	30,591	30,399	36,714	47,364	45,197	48,177	359,544
Immunised	35,037	24,107	26,317	21,682	15,460	26,518	33,455	22,704	23,066	228,346
Per cent.	78.2	56.4	78.3	70.8	50.8	72.2	70.6	50.2	47.8	63.5
0.14 years (born 1934. 1948) — Child population	78,309	76,604	58,692	53,099	51,497	64,687	83,270	78,437	84,872	629,467
Immunised	52,027	42,354	40,878	34,278	24,617	42,335	49,586	37,687	43,407	367,169
Per cent.	66.4	55.3	69.6	64.6	47.8	65.4	59.5	48.1	51.1	58.3
Diphtheria Notifications and Deaths in relation to immunisation during 1948
Cases notified— Immunised	5	18	4	12	9	6	2	11	3	70
Not immunised	10	16	3	37	26	8	15	42	21	178
Deaths— Immunised	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Not immunised	2	3	—	7	—	—	—	3	—	15