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Although the number of cases admitted was less
than the previous year it has been found impossible
to take so many cases from outside districts; many
applications have been obliged to be refused as the
beds were required for our own cases at the time, the
applications not coming, as in the previous years,
during a slack time. Only four cases were able to
be received—two of Scarlet Fever from Acton, and
two of Enteric Fever from Wembley; one of the latter
was in for a long time owing to brain symptoms, but
he eventually recovered.
SCARLET FEVER.
Of the 188 cases, eight had also Diphtheria;
seven were suffering from Measles; one had a severe
bum, others with Chicken Pox, Inflammation of Brain,
Whooping Cough. The complications with Diphtheria,
however, were not limited to the above, as nine cases
admitted into the Diphtheria Wards were found to have
had Scarlet Fever at the same time. It happened on
two occasions that the Scarlet Fever symptoms had
subsided on admission, and the disease was not known
until desquamation was seen. By this means on both
occasions other patients in the wards contracted Scarlet