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Wimbledon 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Under Article 22 of the Education Code it was found necessary to exclude one hundred and fifty-one children from school for the following reasons:—
| Suffering from Scarlet Fever | 27 |
| Scarlet Fever contacts | 35 |
| Suffering from Diphtheria | |
| Diphtheria contacts | 51 |
| Total | 151 |
Further particulars of these cases are given in the Report
of the Medical Officer of Health.
No case of smallpox occurred amongst school children in
Wimbledon during the year.
Valuable information is obtained from the weekly returns
of absences due to infectious diseases furnished by the Head
Teachers. The numbers of cases of non-notifiable infectious
diseases reported from the schools during 1937 were as
follows:—
Measles 7
German Measles 5
Whooping Cough 90
Mumps 40
Chicken-pox 328
Chicken-pox and whooping cough were the principal infectious
diseases noted amongst the school children during
1937.
Chicken-pox was prevalent during the greater part of the
year. The schools chiefly affected were Wimbledon Park, All
Saints Junior Mixed, All Saints Girls' and Infants', Cottenham
Park Infants' and Queen's Road Infants'. On the whole,
serious infectious disease was much less prevalent than in 193(5.
In accordance with Article 20(b) of the Education Code, eighty-three children were excluded from school during 1937 for the following conditions :—
| Ringworm (scalp) | 1 |
| Ringworm (skin) | 1 |
| Conjunctivitis | 4 |
| Scabies | 19 |
| Impetigo | 8 |
| Mumps | 11 |
| Chicken-pox | 21 |