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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table (ii)—Sickness—1st January, 1955 to 31st December, 1956
| Nursery | Block or floor | Total sickness | Infective sickness | Non-infective sickness | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child days | Children | Spells | Child days | Children | Spells | Child days | Children | Spells | ||
| (a) | (c) | (a) | (b) | (a) | (c) | |||||
| (1) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (7) | ||||||
| Downs | Anne | 5,277 | 172 | 337 | 5,006 | 158 | 307 | 271 | 30 | |
| Charles | 3,085 | 91 | 2,764 | 95 | 147 | 321 | 14 | |||
| Total | 8,362 | 250 (d) | 498 | 7,770 | 454 | 592 | 37 (d) | 44 | ||
| St. Margaret's | 1st floor | 4,831 | 233 | 4,661 | 108 | 170 | 19 | |||
| 2nd floor | 2,785 | 74 | 2,744 | 73 | 151 | 41 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Total | 7,616 | 393 | 7,405 | 176 (d) | 362 | 31 | ||||
(a) Includes days sick in both nursery and hospital.
(b) Number of children sick at any time during the whole period of two years whilst in the same block or the same nursery.
(c) Total number of illnesses experienced during the two years, i.e., a child having two illnesses is counted twice in this column.
(d) If a child moved from one block or floor to the other part of the nursery he/she is treated as a ' new ' person in that block but not in the overall figure for the establishment, hence the addition of the
numbers of persons by separate blocks or floors exceeds the total for the nursery.