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Residental Institutions.—Institutional treatment (sanatorium and hospital) is
provided by the London Insurance Committee for insured persons, and bv the
London County Council for non-insured persons. In addition, many tuberculous
poor are dealt with by the Guardians in the Infirmaries, and charitable
societies send away a certain number of cases.
Bacteriological Examinations.—321 specimens of sputum from St. Pancras
patients have been examined for medical practitioners by the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine at the expense of the Borough. 78 of these were
reported as containing tubercle bacilli, and 243 as negative.
SCARLET FEVER.
1,009 St. Pancras (civil) patients were notified during 1915 as suffering
from scarlet fever. This figure includes St. Pancras cases wrongly notified to
medical officers of health of other authorities and transmitted to St. Pancras,
and excludes 28 cases notified to this authority but belonging to other
districts.
Of the 1,009 cases notified, 109 were afterwards found not to be suffering
from scarlet fever, 99 by the Medical Superintendents of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals, and 10 by other Medical Practitioners.
This gives the net number of cases of scarlet fever notified during the year
as 900, equal to an incidence rate of 4.1 per 1,000 population, and 4.5 per
1,000 civil population (see p.9). The number of deaths from scarlet fever
certified during the year was 22, equal to a death-rate of 0.10 per 1,000
population, or 0.11 per 1000 civil population, and a case mortality of 2.44 per
cent. of cases notified.
Interim grants on the scale of the scheme were made by the Council to the
two dispensaries in respect of non-insured persons as from 1st April, 1915,
and proportional repayment duly received from the Board and the Countv
Council. No corresponding payment was made for insured persons, but since
the end of the year this has been done as from 1st October, 1915.