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Willesden 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Owing to the system instituted by which notifications were
received from the public elementary schools, it has this year been
possible to gain some notion of the nature and prevalence of a large
number of cases of infectious disease of which hitherto no knowledge
was attained.
The details of these are set our, in the following table:-
T able 28.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1904 INTIMATED FROM THE SCHOOLS.
| DISEASE. | Number of Casks. | Percentage Incidence. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visited. | Suffering. | Contacts. | Doctor in Attendance. | Isolated. | Under 5 Years. | 5 Years and upwards. | ||||
| Cases not Attending School. | Cases Attending School. | Percentage Incidence. | Cases Attending School. | Percentage Incidence. | ||||||
| Measles | 1,323 | 730 | 593 | 274 | 378 | 260 | 110 | 7.4 | 360 | 1.7 |
| Whooping Cough | 119 | 90 | 29 | 35 | 11 | 27 | 17 | 1.1 | 46 | .22 |
| Chicken Pox | 364 | 108 | 256 | 102 | 60 | 4 | 35 | 2.3 | 69 | .3 |
| Mumps | 105 | 62 | 43 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 5 | .3 | 46 | .22 |
| Tuberculosis | 6 | 6 | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | 6 | .02 |
| Influenza | 27 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | 10 | .04 |
| Ringworm | 262 | 262 | — | 103 | 79 | 11 | 28 | 1.9 | 223 | 1.08 |
| Ophthalmia | 45 | 45 | — | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | .3 | 36 | .17 |
| Other Diseases | 212 | 212 | — | 74 | 16 | 35 | 17 | 1.1 | 160 | .77 |
| Verminous Heads | 26 | 26 | — | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | 24 | .11 |
Perhaps the most striking fact in connection with these
returns is the greatly increased incidence upon children under five
years of age of nearly all the infectious diseases notified from the
schools. This is shewn in the above table.