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The incidence of the disease was highest in the Central
School with 9 cases, Beaumont Park 9 cases and Southfield
Road with 25.
It will be noticed that it was the same schools that
suffered most in 1910. The immediate causes in both years were
carrier cases in attendance at school. A detailed account was
given in last year's report of the action taken to detect the
carrier case, and the same routine was adopted last year.
If a reference be made to the tables furnished in the
report on the inspection of school children, it will be found
that these three schools furnish the highest percentage of
enlarged tonsils and adenoids. It is probable that the association
of Diphtheria and enlarged tonsils and adenoids is not
an accidental one. Children with enlarged tonsils furnish a
fruitful soil for the implantation and growth of the Diphtheria
bacillus, and these children are more liable to contract the
disease when they come in contact with a "carrier" case.
In two houses three cases occurred in each of them, and
in four houses two cases occurred in each. In the other 101
houses one case occurred in each.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Seventeen cases of Enteric Fever were notified and four
deaths occurred. In the first half of the year only three cases
were notified
Most of the "primary" cases contracted the disease outside
the district. One of the cases had stayed at Shanklin from
September 8th to September 16th, and whilst there had eaten
oysters. She was taken ill on September 25th, and notified
on October 9th.