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Five cases were admitted to the Ilford Isolation Hospital. In
one case the infecting organism was B. Typhosus. The patient had
stayed for a week at a seaside resort. In the other 4 cases the infecting
organism was B. Para-typhosus B. Three of these patients had
visited areas outside Ilford, but the other had not been away from
the Borough.
One case was nursed at home; and infection was also due to
B. Para-typhosus B. in this case. This patient had also visited
an area outside the Borough.
One case occurred at King George Hospital, the organism
found being B. Para-typhosus B. The patient, who was admitted
for abdominal trouble, had previously stayed on a farm in Essex
where water was obtainable from a well.
All of these patients recovered satisfactorily.
(e) Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—No notifications of this disease were
received during the year. Two deaths, however, occurred in Oldchurch
Hospital from meningococcal meningitis.
(f) Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—11 cases were notified during
1935, as compared with 16 in 1934; 14 in 1933; 11 in 1932; 11 in
1931; 5 in 1930; 6 in 1929; 4 in 1928; 2 in 1927; 3 in 1926; 3 in
1925.