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Acton 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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It was not therefore possible to find a common factor in
the schools attended by the infected persons. A review of the
Streets in which the affected cases lived at-the time of being treated
for Scabies does not throw much more light on the subject. Below
is a table of the streets affected, separated into the months at which
the cases were affected. Those streets which are near to each
other, and where conceivably the children might have infected each
other at their play, are bracketed together.
January. March April June
Greenend Road. Newark Cres. The Fairway Antrobus Rd.
Essex Road. Grasmere Av.
September. November December
Old Oak Com. Lane. Somerset Road. Horn Lane,
Shakespeare Road. Colville Road. Faraday Road.
Alfred Road. Stirling Road. Stuart Road.
Avenue Road. Brassie Avenue. Alfred Road.
The Tee. Stirling Road,
Avenue Road. Canada Crescent.
Avenue Road.
Scabies is communicated from person to person through fairly
prolonged contact, as when two people sleep together and the bedclothes
have become infected, for the Acarus Scabiei is a slow
mover. It is therefore all the more difficult to explain how such
a scattered outbreak should occur in the Borough, and simultaneously
in other Boroughs. It is important to treat all affected members of
a household at the same time or re-infection will occur. In fact
one firm which makes preparations for home treatment of Scabies
advises that all members of the household should be treated at the
same time, whether infected or not.