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In one house there were four eases, in two houses there
were three cases, in eight houses there were two cases, and
in the remaining one hundred and four houses, one case.
One hundred and sixteen, or ninety-two per cent, of the
cases, were treated in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Gap
Road.
There were no deaths amongst Wimbledon residents.
Fifty-four per cent, of the cases notified were children of
school age, five to fifteen years, and of these, sixty-nine
attended the following schools :—
Old Central School 1
Dundonald Road Infants' School 3
Wimbledon Park Mixed School 2
Russell Road Mixed School 5
Haydon's Road Boys' School 5
Haydon's Road Girls' School 7
Haydon's Road Infants' School 6
Cottenham Park Mixed School 2
Cottenham Park Infants' School 3
Queen's Road Boys' School 4
Queen's Road Infants' School 1
Special School (Queen's Road) 1
Effra Road Girls' School 2
Effra Road Infants' School 1
Pelham Road Infants' School 6
Central School for Boys 1
Central School for Girls 3
Private Schools 11
Schools outside the Borough 5
Total 69
Diphtheria.—The total number of cases notified was
twenty-one from nineteen houses. The attack rate was 0.35
per thousand of the population.
In one house there were three cases, and in the remaining
eighteen houses, one case.
Twenty, or ninety-five per cent, of the patients received
hospital treatment.
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