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There are about 19,000 children in the Board Schools, so
that 2 per cent. were found unvaccinated. The principal voluntary
schools were also examined, and unvaccinated children
vaccinated.
Notices were posted all over the Borough, and also inserted
in the local papers recommending revaccination. Later on a
bill was distributed at every house giving a summary of the
evidence as to the protection afforded by vaccination.
Measles.
32. There were 21 deaths from Measles, giving a death
rate of 018; 5 each were in St. George's and St. Nicholas'
Wards, and smaller numbers in 6 other wards. 11 Deaths
occurred in Woolwich parish, 9 in Plumstead, and 1 in Eltham.
33. 323 Cases were notified by school teachers during the
year, viz., 54 from the Slade School, 47 from High Street, 35
from St. Michael's, 31 from Bloomfield Road, 26 from Wood
Street, 22 from Vicarage Road, 17 from St. Thomas's, and
smaller numbers from other schools.
34. The following classes or classrooms of the infant departments
of elementary schools were closed during a period of
three weeks for the prevention of Measles:—Bloomfield Road,
Room A; St. Thomas's, Infant Department; St. Michael's,
Classes 1, 2 and 3; Wood Street, Classroom B; Slade, Room
A; High Street, Hall and Rooms C, E, F, G and H; Eglinton
Road, Room A. The classrooms closed were chiefly those containing
the younger children, most of them under six years of
age, so that the interference with education was not of a
serious nature. At one school the closure was in March, two
in May, two in June, one in July, one in November, and one
in December.