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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

Hendon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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has been obtained. The total number of visits made to the
home by the School Nurses during the year was 2700.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following Tables show the incidence of infectious
diseases in public elementary schools.
These are accurate as regards Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria, but as regards Measles, Chickenpox, Mumps and
Whooping Cough they are only approximately correct, as these
diseases are not notifiable and the information is derived from
particulars which are supplied to the Head Teachers by the
parents, but they are sufficiently accurate to give a reasonable
indication of the incidence of these diseases in the schools.