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There is a slight increase in the number of notifications,
but a considerable drop in the number of deaths that occurred.
Ninety cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital and
four deaths occurred there.
One death occurred in a public institution outside the
district.
Twenty-five cases were nursed at home and four of these
resulted fatally.
Sixty-six out of the 118 cases were amongst school children,
and 60 of these were in the Elementary Schools of the district.
The incidence of the disease was highest in the Central
School with six cases, Beaumont Park with 13, and Southfield
Boad with 25. In all these schools the source of infection
could be traced almost certainly to a carrier case.
The cases in the Central School occurred early in the year,
and the school was free of the disease from the date on which
the "carrier" cases were excluded. An examination of the
children in some of the classes was made on January 27th.
Swabs were taken from the throats of all children suspected of
having had a recent inflamation of the throat. Two children
were found harbouring the germs of the disease. Both children
were excluded from school and the notifications ceased.
In Beaumont Park some cases were notified on the reopening
of the schools after the Summer Holidays, and one of
the children in the school was found to be suffering from a
nasal discharge. A cultivation was made and the Klebs-Loeffler
bacillus was isolated.
In Southfield Road School, the number of cases was higher,
and this was due to two batches of "carrier" cases. On the
re-opening of the schools after the Summer Holidays a "carrier"
case was detected attending school. His exclusion was the
means of cutting short the outbreak.