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conveyance, or a house where there are young
children. No children should be allowed to visit
a house where there is Whooping Cough.
(8) Where there is Whooping Cough in a house, infants
and older children who have not had the disease
must be kept from school for two weeks; they
must not go then if they have any cough or cold.
The mortality of the disease in the past three years was
5.4 per cent. of notified cases, more than twice as great as
that of Scarlet Fever.
Owing to the prevalence of Whooping Cough in East
Plumstead in January, i communicated with the Medical
Officer (Education), London County Council, who gave instructions
for the exclusion of all unprotected children under
the age of five years, for a period of four weeks, from
nine schools in the affected area.
Scarlet-fever.
36. There were 506 cases of Scarlet Fever notified (deducting
18 cases of mistaken diagnosis), equivalent to a
rate of 3.94 per thousand population, compared with 7.77
in 1909. This rate is the lowest since 1905.

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