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The following shows the weekly menu of dinners supplied to
the children:—
Monday. Soup and bread, currant roll.
Tuesday. Stewed meat and cabbage and potatoes.
Wednesday. Soup and bread, plain suet pudding, with syrup.
Thursday. Irish stew and potatoes, plain pudding.
Friday. Soup and bread, rice pudding.
Saturday. Stewed meat and two vegetables.
Infectious Diseases.
The district has been comparatively free of Infectious Diseases
during the year.
There was an outbreak of Measles in the northern park of the
district in the early part of the summer. The Infants' Department
of the Central School was mostly affected, but the outbreak
did not necessitate the closure of any department.
A more serious outbreak made its appearance towards the
end of the year. An account of these outbreaks is given in the
Report of the Medical Officer of Health. Chicken-pox was
prevalent in the Spring and Summer. Sporadic cases occurred
in the southern part of the district throughout the early part of
the year. The first case occurred on January 10th, and this
was reported from the Priory Schools. Two other cases were
reported on January 12th, one from Beaumont Park Infants and
one from Turnham Green R.C. School. It is probable that
these three cases were infected from the same source, but the
source of the infection was not traced. On February 12th a
second case was reported from Beaumont Park, but in the
interval two cases had occurred in Rothschild Road School; one
cf these was reported on January 18th, and the other on January
28th.
On February 4th, two cases were reported from Southfield
Road School, one from Class 6 and the other from Class 4.
The infection in these cases was probably derived from one of
the children who had been reported from the neighbouring