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Sanitary Report, 1893.
West Ward, Harlesden, were reported as being absent
from school on account of scarlet fever. I inspected
the children at the school, and in my report to the
Board, advised that the school should be closed at
once instead of wailing for the holidays. This was
done, and the school kept closed between four and
five weeks, three of which were holidays. During
the interval the school rooms were thoroughly disinfected,
and I inspected them again before advising
that the school might be reopened. No complaints
were received afterwards of fresh cases among the
children.
Recurrent Cases.
On May 4th four notifications from one house
were received, and on referring to the Street History
it was found that two of them were notified as having
had scarlet fever in the previous September.
Diphtheria.
Diphtheria has been very prevalent in many
parts of the country, and there has been a considerable
increase of the disease in our own district. It
has been a subject of frequent observation how diphtheria
is becoming so much more prevalent in towns
than formerly; during the year 1893 London and
other towns have had a large increase. Our own
experience for some years was that the rural portion
of the district had more than the thickly-populated
urban part, the West Ward having the largest proportion.
This condition has been entirely changed
this year, the number of persons attacked being in the
Persons per acre.
North Ward 3.0 per 1,000 29.6
East „ 1.7 „ 8.4
West „ 2.3 „ 11.3
South „ 5.2 „ 139.0