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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ilford 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Table IX.
Summary of Cases of Infectious Diseases among School-Children, and of Contacts of such Cases, excluded from School Attendance during the Year ended the 31st December, 1920.
| SCHOOLS. | Number on Roll. | DISEASES AND CONTACTS | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Measles. and German Measles. | Chicken Pox. | Mumps. | Whooping Cough. | Ring-worm. | Totals. 1920. | Totals. 1919. | |||||||||||
| Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Cases | Contacts | Cases | Contacts | ||
| Barkingside | 298 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | — | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 |
| Chadwell | 255 | 3 | 2 | — | — | - | - | 9,6 | 14 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | — | 30 | 18 | 31 | 32 |
| Christchurch | 1216 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 24 | - | -_ | 96 | 24 | 38 | 14 | 2 | -_ | 19 | 2 | 5 | 180 | 83 | 196 | 137 |
| Ch. England | 99 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 10 | 11 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 7 | 7 | - | 25 | 25 | 21 | 37 |
| Cleveland Road | 1290 | 11 | 23 | 10 | 7 | - | - | 41 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 8 | - | 14 | 1 | 3 | 103 | 52 | 138 | 136 |
| Downshall | 1309 | 27 | 51 | 15 | 22 | - | - | 148 | 40 | 11 | 7 | 3 | -_ | 31 | 6 | 6 | 241 | 126 | 225 | 105 |
| Goodmayes | 784 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 94 | 19 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 10 | - | 4 | 153 | 41 | 182 | 56 |
| Highlands | 778 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 2 | — | - | 36 | 12 | 3 | - | 4 | — | 26 | 4 | 2 | 84 | 32 | 90 | 49 |
| Little Heath | 143 | — | — | 24 | 33 | - | - | 8 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | 36 | 5 | 13 |
| Loxford | 1059 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 10 | - | - | 48 | 24 | 3 | 10 | 4 | - | 9 | 3 | 4 | 93 | 68 | 228 | 121 |
| Newbury Park | 484 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 12 | 8 | 47 | 51 | |
| Roman Catholic | 372 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 17 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | -_ | - | 6 | 2 | - | 18 | 34 | 36 | 35 |
| South Park | 1260 | 30 | 31 | 6 | 11 | - | - | 111 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 9 | - | 37 | 4 | 208 | 65 | 156 | 55 | |
| Uphall | 1021 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 16 | - | - | 157 | 60 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 215 | 102 | 73 | 62 |
| Valentines | 101 | - | 1 | — | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Countv High School | — | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | - | - | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | - | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 |
| Private Schools | — | 12 | 12 | 22 | 27 | 1* | - | 8 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 46 | 145 | 64 |
| Totals | 10475 | 154 | 213 | 130 | 194 | 1 | — | 790 | 247 | 116 | 62 | 51 | 4 | 172 | 36 | 39 | 1453 | 756 | 1602 | 974 |
| *Private School outside the Ilford District. | ||||||||||||||||||||