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The source of the outbreak could not be proved definitely, but it
would appear that a child who was admitted to Poplar Hospital on 3rd
November suffering from vomitting and diarrhoea and died 7th November,
may have been the source of infection.
Five of the patients were certified on discharge from the London
County Council Isolation Hospital to have suffered from "Enteritis,"
but these have not been excluded from the total of 16 cases notified.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
A complete summary of cases notified and visited is given in the
Section of this Report dealing with Maternity and Child Welfare, page 128.
Altered Diagnosis Cases.
141 patients who had been notified and removed to hospitals as
suffering from infectious disease were later certified to be suffering from
some condition other than that which was notified:—
37 Scarlet Fever; 87 Diphtheria; 9 Puerperal Pyrexia (altered
to Puerperal Sepsis); 4 Chickenpox; 2 Cerebro-Spinal Fever;
1 Acute Primary Pneumonia; 1 acute Poliomyelitis.

* These were reported ' 'Not notifiable," etc.