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schools. Contrary to the behaviour of the disease in the other
schools mentioned above, 10 other cases occurred in Southfield
Road Infants' Department between February 16th and February
24th. The ten cases were distributed as follows:— One each in
Classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7; two in Class 5, and three in Class 6.
Two other cases occurred on February 28th, but these were
probably infected from the second batch of cases, as the incubation
period of Chicken Pox is stated to be from 12 to 19 days.
At the end of February every class in the Infants' Department
had been invaded, and one case had been reported from Standard
la in the Junior Department.
In March, 11 cases were reported from the Infants' Department,
six of these being from Class 7. Cases occurred up to
the Easter holidays.
On the re-opening of the schools after the Easter holidays
only one case occurred, and the department was free from the
disease until Whitsuntide. In the Junior department though
four cases occurred in March, five in April, and three in the
first fortnight of May; seven of the 12 cases were in Standard
la.
Four cases also occurred in the Priory Infants' between the
Easter and Whitsun holidays.
On the re-opening of the schools after the Whitsun holidays,
several cases were notified from the Infants' Department of the
Southfield Eoad School, and in May 34 cases occurred, of these
17 occurred in Class 5.
As all the classes in the Infants' Department were affected,
all the classrooms were scrubbed out and disinfected.
The other cases of Chicken Pox which occurred after the
Whitsun holidays were distributed as follows:—