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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

Erith 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]

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Table: (4) Leavers.

(4) Leavers.

Boys.Per cent.Girls.Per cent.Total.Per cent.
Number examined.202187389
Measles14973.717191.432082.2
Whooping Cough5125.28746.513835.4
Chicken-pox5426.77037.412431.3
Scarlet Fever2612.82111.24712.0
Diphtheria125.963.2184.6
Other Diseases2612.83619.26215.7

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The percentage of children who have suffered from
any particular disease corresponds very closely with the
percentage found in the previous year, but is slightly
higher in the case of the diseases Whooping Cough, Chicken
Pox, and Diphtheria.
Measles and Whooping Cough are the two diseases
which show very high figures; not quite one quarter of
the children in school escape the infection of Measles, and
not quite half escape that of Whooping Cough.

Table: All Children Examined.

All Children Examined.

Boys.Per cent.Girls.Per cent.Total.Per cent.
Number examined.116711232290
Measles85073.790780.7175776.7
Whooping Cough54146.362655.7116751
Chicken-pox39533.843138.382636
Scarlet Fever1038.81099.72129.2
Diphtheria413.5292.5703.1
Other Diseases14712.618216.232914.3

Table: The following table gives the average age, with average height and weight at each of the inspections:—

The following table gives the average age, with average height and weight at each of the inspections:—

Age.Average.
Height.Weight.
Yrs.M'ths.Feet.Ins.Lbs.
1st Inspection, Boys53½3538¾
,, „ Girls54½3539
2nd ,, Boys711¾31148¾
Girls711½310½47¾
3rd ,, Boys11—4462¾
,, Girls11—44½64
4th „ Boys1374979½
,, ,, Girls13849¾83¾