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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Private Schools
3
Schools outside the Borough
5
Total
27
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| Schools outside the Borough | 5 |
| Total | 27 |
in one house there were three cases, in seven houses there
were two cases, and in the remaining forty-three houses, one
case.
Fifty-nine, or 98.33 per cent. of the patients received
hospital treatment.
Three deaths occurred, giving a death rate of 0.05 per
thousand of the population.
Of the cases notified, 63.33 per cent. were children of school age, five to fifteen years, and of these thirty-eight attended the following schools:—
| Queen's Road Infants' School | 4 |
| All Saints Junior Girls' and Infants' School | 9 |
| All Saints Junior Mixed School | 8 |
| Wimbledon Park Junior Mixed School | 1 |
| Old Central School | 3 |
| Dundonald Junior Girls' & Infants' School | 3 |
| Cottenham Park Infants' School | 1 |
| St. Mary's R.C. School | 6 |
| Holy Trinity Senior Mixed School | 1 |
| Pelham Road Infants' School | 2 |
| Total | 38 |
Careful investigation is carried out after each case of
diphtheria has been notified. School children from infected
houses are swabbed and not re-admitted to school until a
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