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DIPHTHERIA.
(Decennial average, 9.7).
Nineteen deaths from this disease were returned by the registrars.
All these except two were of young children aged less than five years.
Fifty deaths were referred to Laryngitis and Croup: doubtless
many of these were cases of Diphtheria.
WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial average, 129.5.)
The prevalence of this disease was considerably below the average,
as it caused only 92 deaths. I had the appended correspondence
with the School Management Committee of the London School
Board upon the advisability of excluding children coming from
houses where other children were suffering from either Whooping
Cough or Mumps.
School Board for London,
Victoria Embankment, W.C.
10th March, 1886.
Sir,
The attention of the School Management Committee of the
Board has been directed to the fact that "Mumps" is not included
among the specific diseases mentioned in the enclosed list.
It has also been suggested that Whooping Cough is not such an
nfectious disease as to preclude any child coming to school from a house
Where such a disease exists.
I shall be obliged if you, as the Medical Officer of Health for your
own district, will kindly assist the Committee with your advice upon
hese points, and also as to whether the enclosed regulations relating
so infectious diseases are in your opinion sufficient to prevent their
spread among the children in the schools of the Board.
I am your obedient Servant,
G. H. CROAD,
Dr. G. P. Bate. Clerk of the Board.
Extract from Board Code.
Any child shewing symptoms of an infectious disease, or any child
Coming from a house where an infectious disease exists, must be sent
Lome at once. The Medical Officer of Health for the district must
it the same time be informed of the child's exclusion, and furnished
with the name and address of the child, and the reason for its exclusion.
When there is not a Medical Officer of Health the information
just be forwarded to the Sanitary Authority. Any child suffering