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found in diphtheria) makes it practically certain that he also was
suffering, at the time of his removal to Hospital, from a combined
attack of Vincent's Angina or ulcerative stomatitis and diphtheria
—a diagnosis that had been arrived at previous to the patient's
removal to hospital from bacteriological examination.
May Hemmings (6 years) was removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital on May 20th before the results (which
proved to be negative) of the bacteriological examinations were
known. These results, together with the after-history of the
case, point to the conclusion that May Hemmings was in all
probability, if not certainly, not suffering from diphtheria (nor
from Vincent's angina nor from ulcerative stomatitis) at the time
of her removal to Hospital. The case of May Hemmings is not,
therefore, included in the diphtheria statistics given in this
Report.
Jane Sutton (13 years) and Francis Clarke (3 years) were
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital on May
29th, both patients having shown previously, on bacteriological
examination, Klebs-Lœffler diphtheria bacilli in their throats.
In this way 10 patients suffering from diphtheria were removed
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital during May, 1905.