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In connection with the foregoing- table, it should be
noted that at least 50 per cent, of the children suffering from
organic heart disease, all the children suffering from lung
diseases, at least 50 per cent, of the children suffering from
nervous diseases, all the children suffering from tuberculosis
—i.e.,366 suffering from these diseases—together with a
considerable proportion of those suffering from rickets,
deformitiies, spinal disease, etc., and other diseases or
defects should be educated by open air methods, and the
necessity for this form of education in Willesden is obviously
a pressing one.
Infectious Diseases.—The following Table, No. 105,
shows the notifications in 1913 of cases of infectious diseases
amongst scholars attending public elementary schools in
Willesden :—