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Non-Notifiable Diseases.
Weekly returns are received from the head teachers of schools
giving the number of children absent with certain non-notifiable
diseases.
This report is necessarily incomplete since it only relates to
children of school age—but it does give an indication of the prevalence
of these conditions at different seasons and forms an index
of the prevalence of infectious disease from year to year.
These figures represent between one-half and one-third of the
true number of cases present in the Borough during the year.
Chickenpox 1,381 cases, but no school had more than
30 in any one week.
Mumps 857 cases
Ringworm 8 cases
Scabies 5 cases
It has been a remarkable feature of the post-war years to
see the virtual disappearance of scabies (the itch) which was so
great a nuisance during the war, especially in those using the public
air raid shelters.