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occurred at Vaughan Road (28), Camrose (17) and Kenmore (16). Some
of these schools were lightly affected in the summer. Welldon Park
which had had 32 cases in the previous term now had 111. In the
second half of the year there were very few cases.
Mumps.
Mumps was about as prevalent as during the previous year, 439
intimations being received. Again one school, Cannon Lane, was heavily
attacked with 158 cases, others more mildly affected being Abercorn (66),
Priestmead (48), Longfield (40), Greenhill (31), and Kenmore (23) cages.
Apart from 31 cases at Priestmead in the spring term the infection was
confined to the summer term, the disease being practically non-existent
throughout the district in the second half of the year.
German Measles.
As contrasted with the previous year when the district was practically
free from infection, there was a very sharp attack throughout the entire
district in the four months February to May, a total of 1,598 cases being
learned of. The following eight schools had over 100 cases each:
Roxbourne, Belmont, Stag Lane, Welldon Park, Eastcote Lane Infants,
and Priestmead, Cannon Lane and Stanburn. The following four had
between 50 and 100: Kenmore, Harrow Weald, Pinner Park and
Longfield.
At most of these schools when German measles was present, measles
was absent. The only ones where both infections were present together
were Greenhill and Eastcote Lane.
Priestmead, which had German measles in the spring term, had
measles in the summer; while Harrow Weald which had a sharp attack
of German measles in the spring was attacked by measles in the autumn.
At the height of the outbreak a number of patients were sent to the
isolation hospital on a diagnosis of scarlet fever but were found to be
suffering from German measles.
Influenza.
The district suffered in the earlier weeks of the year from a continuation
of the influenza outbreak which had attacked this district in common
with the rest of the country in the later months of 1943. Three deaths
in January were followed by one in each of the next two months. These
occurred principally amongst the elderly. 124 notifications of pneumonia
were received during the year.
VERMIN INFESTATION.
Scabies.
1,815 cases of scabies attended the treatment centres during the
year, a slight fall in the figure of 2,178 in 1943. One reason for the
smaller number though will be that only 93 attended in August, a decline
probably due to the numbers of local residents who evacuated. Another
reason may be the withdrawal of facilities for treatment from some parts
of the district. For most of the year treatment was available at five