WHOOPING COUGH.
OUTBREAK-IN SHIRLEY SCHOO^. Though sixty cases of *hoopu® cough in the Shirley district ■ caused department oC • tS* 6chool to be closed—all pupils iraa Std. 1. downwards being ordered te remain at home —the trouble mas 4® be confined to Shirley: In 20, (wJw schools,' where enquiries have" made, the school medical officer* ha** been infornted of onij one case. Commenting on this, the Medical ["Officer of Health (Dr. T. Fletdw [ Telford) stated that targe nunbin ' whooping cough c&ses were usually •*- ' pected in the spring, but thi* ; they were later than usual. It . I better for ,the> cases to eame at this I time of ttle year, for, is oldßr \ weather, there was., more danger o# j complications.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20413, 7 December 1931, Page 11
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