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Barnes 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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49
SCARLET FEVER.
Weeks of 1913.
* School Holidays.
† School Holiday, cases were not School children.
This Table shows that 95 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified during 1913, and of these 82 were admitted
to the Isolation Hospital or nearly 87 per cent.
It will be noticed that in 12 weeks of the year there were no notifications received.
There were no deaths in Hospital from this disease. Pour cases give a history of having contracted the
disease outside the district.
* Attention is called to the diminution in the number of cases notified during School holidays, which goes
to prove that Schools may be centres of infection by personal contact and School dust.