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Shoreditch 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS.In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases or were residing in houses in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from the head-teachers of the schools they attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the London County Council:

INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS.

In the following table are set forth the numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from infectious diseases or were residing in houses in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from the head-teachers of the schools they attended in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the London County Council:

School.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Diphtheria.Scarlet Fever.Measles.Chicken Pox.Whooping Cough.Mumps.Other Diseases.Total.
Aldersgate Ward..........4......4
Arlington Street..............1..1
Bath Street......1..3......4
Canal Road......597129..7130
Catherine Street......1324149241498
Central Street....1..........12
Chatham Gardens....1131313281170
Coleman Street Ward........282....12
Curtain Road....11743612528112
Ecclesbourne Road......1..........1
Enfield Road..........1......1
Fellows Street1....152621254496
Gopsall Street1..115010769685467427
Haggerston Road.....12259315124779283
Hammond Square....128943197933266
Hanover Street......21....• •..3
Hoxton House............1....1
The Laurence......1..........1
Maidstone Street2..3241531531151226
Napier Street....25209939154039277
Queen's Road................11
Redvers Street....52912282 o2381
St. Columba........9....2..11
St. John's Lane................55
St. John's National......1323......18
St. John's Road1..1082773911721248
St. Mark's............1113
St. Monica's........11....• •..11
St. Paul's....211..........13
Scawfell Street....1556714710810690493
Scrutton Street......810431834
Shap Street....4498715122566258
Shepperton Road......2..2....15
Trinity Place........1516218859
Virginia Road........1....• •23
Wenlock Road....811532417226141
Total5..1284679954033684675663399

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The exclusions were much more numerous for all the diseases given in the
foregoing table except enteric fever, the total number exceeding that for 1906 by
over 1,200, and was the highest so far recorded.