[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon].

  • Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1908?]
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    years, and of the notifications received 171 were of children attending the following schools:— Haydons Road (Girls and Infants), 36; Haydons Road (Boys), 6; Queen's Road (Girls and Infants), 36; yueen's Road (Boys), 10; Effra Road, 24; Holy Trinity, 15; Dundonald, 13; Central, 9; Roman Catholic, 6; Cottenham Park, 1; Private, 7; and schools outside the district, 8. Although, as mentioned previously, the number of cases notified was considerably larger than in previous years, it was fortunately not deemed necessary at any time to advise the closing of any particular school. The investigations made in each case, the distribution of leaflets of precautions to be taken, the measures of dis infection, and the means taken to prevent members of the same household from attending school have been the same as in previous years and referred to in former reports, but the increased number of cases has naturally involved a con siderable amount of additional work upon the staff of the Department. Appendix Table III. shows the age distribution for the whole of the infectious diseases, the Wards in which they occurred, and from which they were removed to the hospital. In Table C, on page 5, will be found the death-rate from Scarlet Fever for the past ten years. The Sub-Committee mentioned in my last Annual Report, appointed to consider the best means of providing a suitable observation ward at the Isolation Hospital, and also as to what extensions to the building are likely to be required during the next few years, reported in December, 1906, after having carefully considered the present hospital accommodation and needs and the probable increase in the population of the Borough, and recommended a scheme providing for additional accommodation in the way of twenty-four beds for Scailet Fever patients, fourteen for Typhoid Fever, and various extensions to the Administrative Block, etc., at an estimated cost of £16,072. The present four-bed pavilion for Enteric Fever cases is proposed to be used as an observation ward. This scheme was under the consideration of the Council for some months, but in April of this year a motion pro posing its adoption was negatived, and subsequently the Council instructed the Sanitary Committee to prepare a further scheme. A Sub-Committee was appointed to deal with the question with instructions to limit the proposed enlarge ments to twenty beds with the necessary accommodation for administrative purposes. The Engineer and Surveyor to the Council was accord ingly required to prepare the necessary plans, estimates, etc , 8