Epidemics Affecting Wingrave Parochial School 1920-1926
Infectious

Diseases
First

Reported
Length

(weeks)
Peak

Abscence
Days school closed

Extra information
Measles
May 1920
8
26%
Diphtheria
Sept 1920
2
3%
2 children died
Scarlet fever
April 1921
23
40%
Closed 16 days
Influenza Jan 1922
Not known
19%
Closed 5 days
Whooping cough July 1922
20
29%
Scarlet fever Dec 1922
7
21%
Mumps
Jan1923
21
17%
Measles Jan 1924
7
44%
Closed 19 days
Influenza Feb 1924 Not known
Not known
Measles Mar 1925 Not known
23%
Chicken pox May1925
29
18%
Whooping cough Feb 1926
8
51%
Closed 3 weeks
From: WINGRAVE A Rothschild Village in the Vale, by Ken and Margaret Morley