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

  • Twickenham (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1918
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    24 Infectious Disease in the Schools. Of the cases of measles and German measles which came under observation during the year, 459 were children attending the schools in the district, and the majority of the cases occurred during February, March, April and May Among the 130 children attending the Nelson (Infants') School, 50 cases of measles were reported in November and December. Curiously, at this time measles was practically absent from the other schools,, and the Nelson School was not affected at the time when the other schools were attacked earlier in the year. Almost every case of measles was visited by the School Nurse or Health Visitors, and exclusion of the patients and contacts attending the Infants' departments arranged. Twenty notifications of scarlet fever and 26 of diphtheria referred to school children. In the latter disease daily inspection for 12 days of the throats of all the children in the classes where a case had occurred and swabbing of contacts were continued, as in previous years. Only 67 cases of school children suffering from whooping cough came under notice, and visits were paid in each case by the School Nurse The prevalence of infectious skin disease has been noted in reporting on the work of the Minor Ailment Treatment Clinic. In a large number of the cases of scabies a direct history of infection from soldier relatives or friends on leave could be traced.