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Schools.
Of the cases of scarier fever notified during the year, sixtyeight
were children attending schools in Twickenham and the cases
were distributed fairly evenly throughout the district.
Although a few cases occurred as the result of contact in
school on more than one occasion, there was never anything
approaching an epidemic affecting any particular school.
Fifty-eight cases of diphtheria occurred among school children,
thirty-eight of these occurring in the last two quarters of the
year, and the schools in East Twickenham were specially affected.
Examination of the throats of every child in the affected
class, for ten days after the occurrence of a case, has been carefully
and systematically carried out during the year and swabs taken
where suspicion arose. In this way entire classes were examined
on 154 occasions. Twenty-nine swabs were taken, and fifteen
proved to be cases of diphtheria, not including positive contacts
who had no symptoms.
There was a considerable outbreak of measles during the
second quarter chiefly affecting the infants' department of the
Archdeacon Cambridge Schools.