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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
During 1937, three hundred and four cases of infectious
disease were notified. These were eighteen more than in 1936.
For several years the incidence of notifiable infectious disease
in Wimbledon has been low.
Full enquiries were made by the Sanitary Inspectors into
the circumstances of each case, and visits were paid to one
hundred and forty-four houses for this purpose.

In one house there were three cases, in three houses there
were two eases, and in the remaining forty-six houses one case.
Fifty, or 90.90 per cent of the cases were treated in
hospital.
The disease was in most cases of a mild character, and
responded readily to treatment. There was no death from
scarlet fever amongst Wimbledon residents.
Of the cases notified 60.00 per cent. were children of
school age, five to fifteen years, and of these twenty-seven
attended the following schools:—
Dundonald Junior Girls' and Infants' School
2
Wimbledon Park Junior Mixed School
4
All Saints Junior Mixed School
1
All Saints Girls' and Infants' School
3
Cottenham Park Infants' School
1
Queen's Road Infants' School
3
Pelham Road Infants' School
1
Old Central School
1
Central School
1
Holy Trinity Senior Mixed School
2
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