Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1898.

  • Hackney (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 per week. Of course, during this period, all children from infected households were excluded from school, and all means adopted to prevent the spread of the disease amongst the scholars. There were 23 cases altogether notified in the St. James' School during the period stated, distributed in the three departments in the following manner:— St. James School. No. of Cases Notified. Average Attendance. Percentage of Scholars Affected. Boys' Dep. 15 100 15% Girls' Dep. 4 100 3.5% Infants' Dep 4 50 8.o% The cases in the boys' department were distributed in the different standards in the following manner. Standard. No. of Scholars in Standard. No. of Cases. Percentage Affected. 1st 20 4 20% 2nd 30 6 20% 3rd 23 2 8.6% 4th 13 1 77% 5th,6th & 7th 25 2 8.0% The highest number and percentage of cases are in the first two standards. I could find no cause for 20% of the first two standards being affected, unless there are some circumstance connected with the class-room or special to the standard to cause this heavy in cidence. The outbreak appears to me to be a typical instance of school influence in the spread of disease. On visiting and inspecting the school, I failed to find anything in the sanitary arrangements which could in my opinion lead to such an outbreak. But I found for educational purposes that all the standards were in one room and seated in the following manner: The 1st and 2nd Standards were seated at four long desks, made to accommodate 10 each. The 3rd Standard were seated at desks made for four each, and the remaining standards at desks to accommodate five each.
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