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patients were removed to Fever Hospitals as suffering from Diphtheria
and the remaining 16 were certified to be fit to resume attendance at
school after treatment.
Enteric Fever.
Five notifications were received (of which two related to Paratyphoid
Fever), and the patients were removed to hospital. One patient was later
certified to be suffering from Apical Pneumonia and not Typhoid Fever,
leaving 4 actual cases. The attack-rate was 0.03 per 1,000 of population.
None of the notified cases died; I death occurred in a Mental
Hospital, but this case was not notified to this Authority.
Following upon one case enquiries elicited the fact that the patient
was a member of a cycling club, the members of which had been infected
while touring. On reporting the facts to the Ministry of Health it was
learned that there were other cycling clubs involved, some of their
members having been infected in the same locality. Fortunately none
of the other members of the cycling club living in the Borough contracted
the disease.
Bacteriological Examinations.
2,637 swabbings were examined. Of these, 319 gave positive results
(12.1 per cent.).
5 blood specimens and I faecal specimen from doubtful cases of
Enteric Fever were examined. All gave negative results.
All the examinations were carried out at the Seamen's Hospital,
Greenwich.
Smallpox.
The outbreak of Smallpox, which commenced in Poplar in March,
1928, continued, and during 1933 140* cases occurred (see footnote to
Table I overleaf).