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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
Wimbledon 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Scarlet Fever. —The total number of cases notified during the year was 127 from 120 houses. The attack rate was 2.1 per thousand of the population.
| Attack Rate. | Death Kate. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-1895 | 4.8 | .02 | Per thousand of the Population. | |
| 189(3-1900 | 3.3 | .04 | ||
| 1901-1905 | 2.3 | .02 | ||
| 1906-1910 | 4.07 | .05 | ||
| 1911-1915 | 3.03 | .01 | ||
| 1916-1920 | 1.8 | .01 | ||
| 1921-1925 | 3.04 | .02 | ||
| 1926-1930 | 2.4 | .000 | ||
| In one house there were six cases, in five houses two cases, and in the remaining 114 houses, one case. | ||||
110 or 86 per cent. of the cases were treated in the Borough
Isolation Hospital, Gap Road.
63 per cent. of the cases notified were children of school age, five to fifteen years, and of these, 74 attended the following schools:—
| Commercial School | 1 |
| Old Central Schools | 2 |
| Cottenham Park, Mixed | 2 |
| Effra lload Girls' and Infants' Schools | 8 |
| Durnsford lload Mixed and Infants' Schools | 5 |
| Queen's Road Infants' School | 1 |
| Queen's Road Boys' School | 4 |
| Pelham Road Infants' School | 8 |
| Pelham Central Schools | 2 |
| Dundonald lload Girls' and Infants' Schools | 5 |
| Russell Road Mixed School | 11 |
| Haydons Road Girls' School | 1 |
| Haydons Road Infants' School | 4 |
| Haydons Road Boys' School | 3 |
| Private Schools | 5 |
| Schools outside the district | 12 |
| 74 |
Diphtheria.—The total number of cases notified during the
year was 140 from 106 houses. The attack rate was 2.3 per
thousand of the population.
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