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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Croydon 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF INFECTIOUSDISEASES.TABLE E. xv.6109 notices of illness (including duplicate notices) were received from School Teachers or Attendance Officers during 1915. 5565 notices of illness were despatched to the respective schools by the Public Health Department. These notices dealt with, amongst others, 5,140 school children actually suffering from the infectious diseases mentioned in the Table

ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS

DISEASES.

TABLE E. xv.

6109 notices of illness (including duplicate notices) were received from School Teachers or Attendance Officers during 1915. 5565 notices of illness were despatched to the respective schools by the Public Health Department. These notices dealt with, amongst others, 5,140 school children actually suffering from the infectious diseases mentioned in the Table

Illness.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.
Scarlet Fever63293045167
Diphtheria1315263084
Measles55164448121255
Mumps46545898521073
Whooping Cough521064754259
Chicken-pox186713893388
Sore Throat70223976207
Ringworm (Scalp)58322412126
„ (body)51241913107
Impetigo141132102148523
Scabies1244929
Infectious Eye Disease767iS°43240
Other diseases293156100'33682
Totals20311764625720540

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The table has been modified to record only the number of actual
sufferers from the infectious diseases therein mentioned, as it is thought that
this infoimation is of more practical use than a detailed record of the
number of notices sent.
WORK OF THE HEALTH VISITORS.
During the year part of the time of six to seven lady Health Visitors
has been given up to school medical work. Their duties in this connection
have mainly beenattendance at school medical inspections, the v sitation
of children who are absent from school because of suspected infectious
disease, and the following up of those in whom defects have been
discovered at the school medical inspections. Each district Health Visitor
is responsible for the visitation of all the school children in her particular
area. One Health Visitor has given most of her time to the work of the
Treatment Centre. Part of the time of the Health Visitors has been taken
up in the clinics held at the Town Hall for the treatment of defects of the
eyes and teeth. On each of the School Care Committees a Health Visitor
has voluntarily given her services during the year The work of the Health
Visitors is set out in detail in the following Table (E. xvi.)