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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
During 1938, two hundred and eight cases of infectious
disease were notified. These were ninety-six more than in 1937.
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.
Scarlet Fever.—Fifty-five cases of scarlet fever were notified,
the same number as in 1937. The attack rate was 0.93 per
thousand of the population.
Attack Rate.
Death Rate.
1891-1895
4.80
0.02
Per thousand
of the
Population.
1896-1900
3.30
0.04
1901-1905
2.30
0.02
1906-1910
4.07
0.05
1911-1915
3.03
0.01
1916-1920
1.80
0.01
1921-1925
3.04
0.02
1926-1930
2.44
0.003
1931-1935
1.84
0.003
In one house there were three cases, in three houses there
were two cases, 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 thirty-one attended
the following schools:—
Wimbledon Park Junior Mixed School 1
All Saints Junior Mixed School 6
All Saints Girls' and Infants' School 1
Cottenham Park Mixed School 2
Cottenham Park Infants' School 2
Queen's Road Girls' School 1
Queen's Road Infants' School 5
Pelham Road Infants' School 3
Old Central School 1
Central School 2
St. Mary's R.C. School 2
Private Schools 3
Schools outside the Borough 2
Total 31
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