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with school work than the exclusion of individual children;
in the eastern division of the borough 195 cases of measles
had entailed a loss of 26,287 attendances, an average of 135
lost attendances for each case of measles; in the western
division, 215 cases of measles had entailed a loss of 13,563
attendances, an average of 63 lost attendances for each case of
measles. The loss of attendances under the system of
individual attendance was thus less than half the loss under
the other system of class or school closure.
SCARLET FEVER.
52 cases were notified during the year. Eight were sent
to Hospital: two, because the mothers were too nervous to
attend to the children: one mother had an abortive attack:
a mother and child being attacked at the same time: and
one as a paying patient.
Infection was traced to Hampshire, Wandsworth and
Ascot. Two children were attacked five days after a sister
returned from Stockwell Hospital, where she. had been under
treatment for Diphtheria. She was apparently free from infection.
A boy who had been sent out of the house whilst his
brother was ill, was attacked seven days after his return,
and nineteen days after the first patient had been declared
well. There was no sign of desquamation or of discharge
from nose or ears, and another child who had remained in the
house all the time escaped. Clothing and toys had been disinfected
or burnt.
In four houses more than one case occurred.
DIPHTHERIA.
Thirty cases were notified, with three deaths. The cases
were mostly of mild type, and no connection was traced between
any except three secondary cases occurring in three
families.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Only four cases were notified. There was no death from
this disease. In all, recovery resulted. Two cases were sent
to Hospital. One suspected source of infection was water from
the River Mole taken just below a sewage outfall, whilst out
fishing.