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Dick Test.
No children were submitted to the Dick Test.
Schools.
Schools apparently played a very small part in the spread of
infection. Of the 252 primary eases occurring amongst school
children, in 176 instances the ease was separated from any other
ease in the same department by more than one week, while in 33
instances there was a case in the preceding week. On 20 occasions,
more than one ease occurred in the same department, providing a
total of 43 cases.
In one instance, school infection occurred. This was a small
school of 4 classes in an old type of building. 2 classes were held
in the main hall and 1 class in each of the other two rooms. A
ease was notified week ending February 2nd. On week ending
February 22nd, .3 children were notified and 2 more the following
week. All these children were found to be scholars in the two
classes in the main hall. 3 suspicious cases, two of whom *w
desquamating, were found and excluded. The other child, suffering
from otorrha-a, had recently returned after an abscncc following
an illness supposed to be measles. After exclusion of these
children, no further cases occurred.
On two other occasions only, did as many as three cases occur
in any one department in one week. Twice a single ease occurred
in 3 consecutive weeks. The following figures show the only
other suspicious groupings in any department of a school throughout
the year 1, 2, 0, 3 ; 1, 2, 6, 1 ; 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1 ; 2, 1; 2,1,1.
0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1.
No schools were closed or disinfected during the year on
account of this infection.
One adult woman suffered from two typical attacks of Scarlet
Fever within a period of three months.
One woman, confined 10 days previously, suffered from Scarlet
Fever and gave rise to a secondary case in the person of one of her
children. Another case occurred 4 days after delivery, the patient
suffering from sore throat, nausea and malaise and subsequent
peeled typically.
Enteric Fever.
There were 4 notifications of Entcric Fever (one for paratyphoid
B) received during the year. All eases were treated in
Oldchurch Hospital and recovered. The source of infection could
not be traced in any of the cases, none of which apparently was
associated in any way with any other case.